Environmental economics : policies for environmental management and sustainable development
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Bibliographic Information
Environmental economics : policies for environmental management and sustainable development
（New horizons in environmental economics）
E. Elgar, c1993
Available at 64 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Environmental Economics provides an accessible well written guide to appropriate policies for environmental management and sustainable development. Following a general introduction the book begins with a discussion of externalities (Paretian relevant and irrelevant, Coasian considerations) and microeconomic policies to control pollution and environmental spillovers and degradation from economic activities. Methods and problems involved in allowing for environmental risk and uncertainty in project evaluation and the impact of the law on environmental risk-taking are examined. A major theme is sustainability - its nature, its implications for cost-benefit analysis and project evaluation and its consequences for policies for economic development. In conclusion, global conservation issues, such as proposed world conservation strategies, and policies for controlling global pollution eg. greenhouse gas emissions, are examined.
Written in a lively and accessible style, the book will be of particular interest to policy makers, teachers and students of environmental economics.
Table of Contents
Contents: Part I: Environmental Economics and Sustainability - The Setting Part II: Externalities and Policies to Control Environmental Spillovers Part III: Project Evaluation, Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment Part IV: Sustainable Development and Economic Activity Part V: Environmental Policies and Global Conservation
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