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What environmentalists need to know about economics / Jason Scorse.
- Title
- What environmentalists need to know about economics / Jason Scorse.
- Author
- Scorse, Jason.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HC79.E5 S347 2010 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vi, 226 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Provides a conceptual set of tools for how to approach environmental issues in a rigorous and thoughtful manner, based on an analysis of incentives, property rights, market failure, supply and demand constraints, and insights from behavioral economics. Easy-to-read and filled with real-world examples of the most complex environmental challenges, this book demonstrates that sound economic analysis and reasoning can be one of the environmental community's strongest allies.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The root causes of environmental problems -- Determining the "optimum" amount of pollution -- Valuing ecosystems -- Putting monetary values on the environment and living things -- Valuing future generations -- Tools to address environmental problems -- Environment v. economy : jobs, economic growth, and international trade -- Climate change -- Forest and biodiversity conservation -- Agriculture -- Chemical pollution -- Fisheries and the marine environment -- Population growth & technological change -- Demand-side interventions.
- ISBN
- 9780230107298
- 023010729X
- 0230107311 (pbk.)
- 9780230107311 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2010013322
- OCLC
- 567165949
- SCSB-10626583
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library