Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 793 g
Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 793 g
ISBN: 978-1-118-53972-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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.
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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
