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Goodstein / Polasky

Economics and the Environment

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-118-53972-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Erscheinungstermin: 04.04.2014
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Climate change and other critical environmental challenges are reshaping economic policy and practice. In the 7th edition of Economics and the Environment, Dr. Eban Goodstein and new co-author, Dr. Stephen Polasky, provide students with a clear, concise, and comprehensive presentation of environmental and resource economics.

The text also offers a compelling look at broader topics including the ethical foundations of environmental economics, the promotion of ''clean technology", and the challenges of sustainable development. With a unique framework and compelling narrative style, Goodstein & Polasky provide a timely synthesis of the economic tools available for understanding and solving environmental problems that are crucial for today's students to consider for tomorrow's world.

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781118539729
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-118-53972-9
  • Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
  • Erscheinungstermin: 04.04.2014
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 7. Auflage 2014
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 793 g
  • Seiten: 544
  • Format (B x H x T): 189 x 233 x 20 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
  • Vorauflage: 978-0-470-56109-6

Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Goodstein, Eban S.

Polasky, Stephen

Preface

Chapter 1: Four Economic Questions about Global Warming

Chapter 2: Ethics and Economics

Chapter 3: Pollution and Resource Degradation as Externalities

Chapter 4: The Efficiency Standard

Chapter 5: Measuring the Benefits of Environmental Protection

Chapter 6: Measuring the Costs of Environmental Protection

Chapter 7: The Safety Standard

Chapter 8: The Sustainability Standard

Chapter 9: Measuring Sustainability

Chapter 10: Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services

Chapter 11: Is More Really Better? Consumption and Welfare

Chapter 12: The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation

Chapter 13: An Overview of Environmental Legislation

Chapter 14: The Regulatory Record: Achievements and Obstacles

Chapter 15: Incentive-Based Regulation: Theory

Chapter 16: Incentive Based Regulation: Practice

Chapter 17: Promoting Clean Technology: Theory

Chapter 18: Energy and the Future

Chapter 19: Poverty, Population, and the Environment

Chapter 20: Environmental Policy in Poor Countries

Chapter 21: The Economics of Global Agreements