Environmental Economics : An Integrated Approach

✍ Scribed by Graves, Philip E

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 254
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

""The style and coverage of the book make it perfect as a set text on an undergraduate course in environment economics. It can also function as a practical guide to the application of environmental evaluation. The expert analysis of the limitations of evaluation tools will also make it of interest and value to more experienced readers. Very highly recommended.""-Gareth Myles, University of Exeter""The textbook offers many interesting examples and cases that conceptualize the environmental economics issue and its connotations. I recommend reading the book for those who are interested in the top. Read more...

Abstract: ""The style and coverage of the book make it perfect as a set text on an undergraduate course in environment economics. It can also function as a practical guide to the application of environmental evaluation. The expert analysis of the limitations of evaluation tools will also make it of interest and value to more experienced readers. Very highly recommended.""-Gareth Myles, University of Exeter""The textbook offers many interesting examples and cases that conceptualize the environmental economics issue and its connotations. I recommend reading the book for those who are interested in the top

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front Cover
Contents
Preface and Organization for Instructors
Acknowledgments
The Author
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Economy and the Environment: Uncontrolled Case (Pre-Institution)
Chapter 3: The Economy and the Environment: The Case of Optimal Controls (Post-Institution)
Chapter 4: The Provision of Public Goods (Pre- and Post-Institution)
Chapter 5: The Role of Time in Economics: Interest Rates, Compounding, and Discounting
Chapter 6: Benefit-Cost Analysis with Perfect Information Chapter 7: Information Difficulties: The Individual Household and the Benefits of Environmental PoliciesChapter 8: Information Difficulties: The Individual Firm and the Costs of Environmental Policies
Chapter 9: Information Difficulties: The Policy Maker
Chapter 10: Environmental Valuation: Overview
Chapter 11: Environmental Valuation: Voting on Environmental Referenda
Chapter 12: Environmental Valuation: Constructed Markets
Chapter 13: Environmental Valuation: The Sum of Specific Damages Approach
Chapter 14: Environmental Valuation: The Hedonic Method Chapter 15: Environmental Valuation: The Travel Cost MethodChapter 16: Do Decision Makers "Care" about Efficiency and Equity?
Chapter 17: The Impact of Concerns about Equity on Environmental Policy
Chapter 18: An Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy Analysis Methodology
Chapter 19: An Overall Assessment of the State of Environmental Policy Making
Chapter 20: The Past and the Future
Back Cover

✦ Subjects

Финансово-экономические дисциплины;Экономика природопользования;