Research Catalog

Title

Environmental economics : an introduction / Barry C. Field, Martha K. Field.

Author

Field, Barry C.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill/Irwin, [2002], ©2002.

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Additional Authors

Field, Martha K.

Description

xviii, 510 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Environmental economics
• Economic development > Environmental aspects
• Economics
• Environment

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Sect. 1. Introduction -- 1. What Is Environmental Economics? -- 2. The Economy and the Environment -- Sect. 2. Analytical Tools -- 3. Benefits and Costs, Supply and Demand -- 4. Economic Efficiency and Markets -- 5. The Economics of Environmental Quality -- Sect. 3. Environmental Analysis -- 6. Frameworks of Analysis -- 7. Benefit-Cost Analysis: Benefits -- 8. Benefit-Cost Analysis: Costs -- Sect. 4. Environmental Policy Analysis -- 9. Criteria for Evaluating Environmental Policies -- 10. Decentralized Policies: Liability Laws, Property Rights, Voluntary Action -- 11. Command-and-Control Strategies: The Case of Standards -- 12. Incentive-Based Strategies: Emission Charges and Subsidies -- 13. Incentive-Based Strategies: Transferable Discharge Permits -- Sect. 5. Environmental Policy in the United States -- 14. Federal Water Pollution-Control Policy -- 15. Federal Air Pollution-Control Policy -- 16. Federal Policy on Toxic and Hazardous Substances -- 17. State and Local Environmental Issues -- Sect. 6. International Environmental Issues -- 18. Environmental Issues in Other Industrialized Countries -- 19. Economic Development and the Environment -- 20. The Global Environment -- 21. International Environmental Agreements.

ISBN

0072429216 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001030662

OCLC

• 46729385
• ocm46729385
• SCSB-4176086

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Columbia University Libraries