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Environmental economics : an elementary introduction

Title: Environmental economics : an elementary introduction / R. Kerry Turner, David Pearce and Ian Bateman.
Author: Turner, R. Kerry.
Publication: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

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viii, 328 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

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Contents

Pt. I. Economics and the environment. 1. The big economy. 2. Environment and ethics. 3. Economic growth, population growth and the environment. 4. Sustainable development -- Pt. II. The causes of environmental degradation. 5. How markets work and why they fail. 6. How governments fail the environment -- Pt. III. Decision-making and the environment. 7. Cost-benefit thinking. 8. Valuing concern for nature. 9. Coping with uncertainty -- Pt. IV. The economic control of the environment. 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 -- Pt. V. Natural resources. 15. Renewable resources. 16. Non-renewable resources -- Pt. VI. Environmental economics in action. 17. Business and the environment. 18. Managing waste. 19. Climate change. 20. Economics and the ozone layer. 21. Conserving biological diversity. 22. International environmental policy: acid rain.
23. Environment in the developing world.

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ocm29835498

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Columbia University Libraries