Environmental Economics: Theory and Policy in Equilibrium

✍ Scribed by Hans Wiesmeth (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 328
• Series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text provides an analysis and investigation of the most essential areas of environmental theory and policy, including international environmental problems. The approach is based on standard theoretical tools, in particular equilibrium analysis, and aims to demonstrate how economic principles can help to understand environmental issues and guide policymakers. Current topics including climate change, overfishing and integrated approaches to environmental policies are carefully analyzed in this framework, and a multitude of practical examples from various parts of the world is presented.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-12
Differing Views on the Environment....Pages 13-25
The International Dimension of the Environment....Pages 27-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-44
Basics of Environmental Economics....Pages 45-52
Allocation Problems in a Market Economy....Pages 53-75
The Internalization of External Effects....Pages 77-101
Public Goods in Environmental Economics....Pages 103-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-126
From Theory to Policy: Information Deficits....Pages 127-137
Command-and-Control Policy....Pages 139-158
Integrated Approaches to Environmental Policy....Pages 159-181
The Price-Standard Approach to Environmental Policy....Pages 183-209
The Allocation of International Environmental Commodities....Pages 211-225
Front Matter....Pages 227-228
Trade and the Environment: The Legal Context....Pages 229-243
Overfishing....Pages 245-279
Integration of Trade and the Environment....Pages 281-301
Back Matter....Pages 303-307

✦ Subjects

Environmental Economics; Environment, general