Environmental economics: an elementary introduction/ by R. Kerry Turner

By:

Turner, R. Kerry

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Pearson, 1994. Harlow:Description: viii,328 pISBN:

9780745010830

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

333.72 TUR-E

Contents:

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

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB F-1	Non Fiction	333.72 TUR-E (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		003313

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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.

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