Environmental economics: an elementary introduction/
by R. Kerry Turner
- Harlow: Pearson, 1994.
- viii,328 p.
1.The big economy -- 2.Environment and ethics -- 3.Economic growth, population growth and the environment -- 4.Sustainable development -- 5.How markets work and why they fail -- 6.How governments fail the environment -- 7.Cost-benefit thinking -- 8.Valuing concern for nature -- 9.Coping with uncertainty -- 10.Using the market to protect the environment -- 11.Charging for the use of the environment -- 12.Green taxes -- 13.Trading environmental permits -- 14.Setting environmental standards -- 15.Renewable resources -- 16.Non-renewable resources -- 17.Business and the environment -- 18.Managing waste -- 19.Climate change -- 20.Economics and the ozone layer -- 21.Conserving biological diversity -- 22.International enivornmental policy: acid rain -- 23.Environment in the developing world
Environmental Economics introduces the student and the interested non-specialist alike to environmental problems and their economic impacts. This book assesses the economic importance of environmental degradation, analyses the economic causes of degradation and points to the design of economic incentives to slow, halt, or reverse it.