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Introduction to Environmental Economics 2nd Revised edition [Minkštas viršelis]

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(Professor, School of Agriculture and Resource Economics, Universi), (Stroock Distinguished Professor of Natural Resource Conservation and Management, University of Wyoming), (Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Stirling)
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 320 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 244x189x16 mm, weight: 546 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 31-Jan-2013
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0199568731
  • ISBN-13: 9780199568734
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 320 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 244x189x16 mm, weight: 546 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 31-Jan-2013
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0199568731
  • ISBN-13: 9780199568734
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Accessible to students with little or no background in the subject, Introduction to Environmental Economics, Second Edition, features an exceptionally clear writing style, a global approach, and wide-ranging theoretical coverage.

The first part of the book carefully explains core economic concepts, while the second part shows how these concepts are used to develop policy responses to several of today's most vital environmental issues including climate change, water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.

Ideal for upper-level undergraduate courses in environmental economics, the text incorporates a variety of case studies drawn from around the world and assesses different economic theories in the context of environmental issues.

New to this Edition

* Four new chapters on the economics of natural resource use, incentives for the environment, the economics of water quality, and the economics of waste

* Substantially revised chapters on the economics of climate change and on biodiversity

* New pedagogical features including questions and definitions

* A Companion Website offering exercises and links for students and PowerPoint-based lecture slides, solutions to text exercises, and graphs from the book for instructors
List of Boxes
xiii
List of Figures
xv
List of Tables
xvii
PART I Economic Tools for the Environment
1 Introduction: Economics for the Environment
3(8)
1.1 The Economy and the Environment
4(2)
1.2 Key Insights from Economics of which Environmental Scientists, Environmental Managers, and Politicians Should be Aware
6(2)
1.3 The Rest of this Book: An Overview
8(1)
1.4 Using this Book for Teaching and Learning
9(2)
2 Markets and the Environment
11(28)
2.1 The Power of Markets
12(3)
2.2 Market Failure
15(8)
2.3 Markets for the Environment
23(16)
3 Valuing the Environment: Concepts
39(20)
3.1 What Does Economic Value Mean?
39(5)
3.2 In What Sense Does the Environment Have Economic Value?
44(5)
3.3 Why Place Economic Values on the Environment?
49(10)
3.3.1 Cost-benefit analysis
49(6)
3.3.2 Other uses of environmental valuation
55(4)
4 Valuing the Environment: Methods
59(23)
4.1 An Overview of the Methods
59(1)
4.2 Stated-preference Approaches
60(7)
4.2.1 Contingent valuation
60(3)
4.2.2 The choice experiment method
63(4)
4.3 Revealed-preference Approaches
67(9)
4.3.1 The hedonic pricing method
67(3)
4.3.2 Travel-cost models
70(6)
4.4 Production-function Approaches
76(2)
4.5 Benefits Transfer
78(4)
5 Environmental Risk and Behaviour
82(23)
5.1 Rational Behaviour under Risk
84(5)
5.2 Behavioural Economics and Risk
89(4)
5.3 Valuing Risks to Life and Limb
93(6)
5.4 Regulating Risk
99(6)
6 Economic Growth, the Environment, and Sustainable Development
105(26)
6.1 Economic Growth and Development
105(5)
6.1.1 Why do economies grow?
109(1)
6.1.2 Growth versus development
109(1)
6.2 Predictions from the Past
110(2)
6.3 Growth and the Environment: The Environmental Kuznets Curve
112(4)
6.4 Broadening the Issue: The Economics of Sustainable Development
116(6)
6.4.1 Definitions of sustainable development
116(3)
6.4.2 Sustainability rules?
119(3)
6.5 Measuring `Sustainability'
122(9)
6.5.1 Green net national product
124(2)
6.5.2 Genuine savings
126(2)
6.5.3 Other sustainability indicators
128(3)
7 Strategic Interactions and the Environment
131(20)
7.1 Introduction
131(2)
7.2 Game Theory
133(6)
7.2.1 Basic concepts
133(1)
7.2.2 The prisoner's dilemma
133(2)
7.2.3 Common property-the fisher's dilemma
135(4)
7.3 Self-governance-Escaping the Tragedy of the Commons
139(1)
7.4 Repeated Fishing Games
140(3)
7.5 Co-operative Games
143(2)
7.6 Game Theory and Transboundary Pollution Control
145(6)
7.6.1 Introduction
145(1)
7.6.2 The acid rain game
146(5)
8 Trade and the Environment
151(24)
8.1 Introduction
151(2)
8.2 Why do Countries Gain from Trade?
153(8)
8.2.1 Extending the basic trade model to include the environment
156(1)
8.2.2 Trade and the environment
157(4)
8.3 Empirical Evidence on the Trade Effects of Environmental Regulation
161(4)
8.4 International Trade Agreements and the Environment
165(10)
8.4.1 International trade agreements
165(2)
8.4.2 Multilateral environmental agreements and trade
167(8)
PART II Applying the Tools
9 The Economics of Climate Change
175(19)
9.1 Introduction
175(2)
9.2 A Global Environmental Risk
177(1)
9.3 The Challenge of International Coordinatidn
178(7)
9.4 The Benefits and Costs of International Co-operation
185(3)
9.5 Economic Issues Underlying Benefit and Cost Estimates
188(2)
9.6 A Flexibility-Stringency Trade-off
190(4)
10 Forests
194(18)
10.1 Introduction
194(3)
10.1.1 Local benefits
195(1)
10.1.2 National benefits
195(1)
10.1.3 Global benefits
195(2)
10.2 Forest Distribution and Losses
197(1)
10.3 Why is Rainforest Lost? Economic Theories of Deforestation
197(5)
10.4 Tropical Deforestation and Poverty
202(1)
10.5 Forestry Management
203(2)
10.6 How Much Natural Forest Should be Preserved?
205(1)
10.6.1 The optimal area of natural forest for a region
205(1)
10.7 Policies for Rainforest Conservation
206(6)
10.7.1 International policy
206(1)
10.7.2 The Global Environment Facility (GEF), REDD, and REDD+
207(1)
10.7.3 How effective are international policies?
208(1)
10.7.4 National and local policies
209(3)
11 The Economics of Water Pollution
212(21)
11.1 Introduction
212(2)
11.1.1 Trends over time
213(1)
11.2 The Costs of Water Pollution Control
214(3)
11.3 Non-point Source Water Pollution: A Difficult Problem to Solve
217(6)
11.4 Measuring Water-quality Benefits
223(4)
11.5 Problems for Cost-benefit Analysis of Water-quality Improvements
227(6)
11.5.1 Identifying the water-quality change to be valued
228(1)
11.5.2 Problems in pricing the environmental change, once identified
228(5)
12 Biodiversity
233(29)
12.1 Introduction
233(3)
12.2 What to Conserve?
236(3)
12.2.1 Economic insights into conservation objectives
236(2)
12.2.2 Allocating resources between species and ecosystems
238(1)
12.3 Values of Biodiversity
239(11)
12.3.1 Direct values
240(1)
12.3.2 Bioprospecting for drugs
241(2)
12.3.3 Ecosystem service values
243(6)
12.3.4 Aesthetic use and non-use values
249(1)
12.4 Biodiversity and Conservation Policy
250(12)
12.4.1 International policy
251(2)
12.4.2 National policies are more challenging
253(9)
13 Non-renewable Natural Resources and Energy
262(24)
13.1 Natural Resource Types
263(1)
13.2 The Extraction of a Non-renewable Resource
263(4)
13.2.1 The baseline case-an introduction to Hotelling's rule
264(2)
13.2.2 Resource extraction and the monopolist
266(1)
13.2.3 Model including extraction costs
266(1)
13.3 Measuring Resource Scarcity
267(9)
13.3.1 Resource lifetime
270(1)
13.3.2 Unit cost measures
271(1)
13.3.3 Real prices
272(1)
13.3.4 Economic rent
272(2)
13.3.5 Hotelling and the oil market
274(2)
13.4 Global Energy Demand and Supply
276(3)
13.5 Global Issues in Energy Policy
279(7)
Glossary 286(5)
Index 291