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Economics of natural resources and the environment / David W. Pearce and R. Kerry Turner.
- Title
- Economics of natural resources and the environment / David W. Pearce and R. Kerry Turner.
- Author
- Pearce, David W. (David William)
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HC79.E5 P37 1990 | Off-site |
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- Turner, R. Kerry.
- Description
- xiii, 378 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-373).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt. I: Economy and environment. ch.1. The historical development of environmental economics. ch. 2. The circular economy. ch. 3. The sustainable economy. -- pt. II: The economics of pollution. ch. 4. The optimal level of pollution. ch. 5. The market acheivement of optimal pollution. ch. 6. Taxation and optimal pollution. ch. 7. Environmental standards, taxes and subsidies. ch. 8. Marketable pollution permits. ch. 9. Measuring environmental damage I: total economic value. ch. 10. Measuring envionmental damage II: valuation methodologies. ch. 11. Pollution-control policy in mixed economies. ch. 12. Pollution-control in centrally-planned economies. ch. 13. Global pollution policy. -- pt. III: Ethics and future generations. ch. 14. Discounting the future. ch. 15. Environmental ethics. -- pt IV: The economics of natural resources. ch. 16. Renewable resources. ch. 17. The extinction of species. ch. 18. Exhaustible resources. ch. 19. Measuring and mitigating natural resource scarcity. -- pt V: Development and environment. ch. 20. Development, preservation and conservation. ch. 21. A case study of wetlands. ch. 22. Environment and the developing countries.
- ISBN
- 0801839866
- 0801839874 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^89019855^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library