Economics and the Environment

Name: Economics and the Environment
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ISBN: 9780471470540

ISBN-10: 0471470546

ISBN-13: 9780471470540

Edition: 4th 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Eban S. Goodstein

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There are often no easy answers to environmental challenges. But asking the right questions leads to a clear and effective economic framework for understanding pressing environmental problems_from finding sites for landfills, to regulating chemical emissions from manufacturing plants, to preserving species diversity.Organized around these four key questions, Eban Goodstein's Fourth Edition offers in-depth analysis of important environmental policy debates, and equips readers with the tools necessary to understand these issues_as economists do.

Book details

List price: $160.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/9/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Four Economic Questions About Global Warming



How Much Pollution is Too Much?



Ethics and Economics



Pollution and Resource Degradation as Externalities



The Efficiency Standard



The Safety Standard



Sustainability: A Neoclassic View



Sustainability: An Ecological View



Measuring the Benefits of Environmental Protection



Measuring the Costs of Environmental Protection



Benefit-Cost in Practice: Implementing the Efficiency Standard



Is More Really Better? Consumption and Welfare



Is Government up to the Job?



The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation



An Overview of Environmental Legislation



The Regulatory Record: Achievements and Obstacles



Monitoring and Enforcement



How Can we do Better?



Incentive-Based Regulation



Incentive-Based Regulation: Practice



Promoting Clean Technology: Theory



Energy Policy and the Environment



Can we Resolve Global Issues?



Poverty, Population, and the Environment



Environmental Policy in Poor Countries



The Economics of Global Agreements


Selected Websites


Author Index


Subject Index