AUTOR/ES: FIELD
ISBN: 9780071152730
AÑO: 1997
EDICION: 2ª
IDIOMA: Castellano
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PUNTOS CLAVE: Known for its issues emphasis as well as its local, national, and global coverage, the flexible design of this text allows instructors the option of covering or skipping over a presentation of basic economic principles and concepts in two early chapters. The text has been completely updated with new data throughout to reflect changing environmental realities Covers a wide range of environmental contributors, 24 in all including Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold. Simplifies complex theories on the environment. For example: Chapter 5 deals with environmental economics. Chapter 6, physics. Chap. 14, deep ecology. Contains material not just from philosophers, but economists and scientists who have contributed to environmental thought.
INDICE: Section One Introduction 1 What Is Environmental Economics? 2 The Economy and the Environment Section Two Analytical Tools 3 Benefits and Costs, Supply and Demand 4 Economic Efficiency and Markets 5 The Economics of Environmental Quality Section Three Environmental Analysis 6 Frameworks of Analysis 7 Benefit-Cost Analysis: Benefits 8 Benefit-Cost Analysis: Costs Section Four Environmental Policy Analysis 9 Criteria for Evaluating Environmental Policies 10 Decentralized Policies: Liability Laws, Property Rights, Moral Suasion 11 Command-and-Control Strategies: The Case of Standards 12 Incentive-Based Strategies: Emission Charges and Subsidies 13 Incentive-Based Strategies: Transferable Discharge Permits Section Five 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 Section Six International Environmental Issues 18 Environmental Issues in Other Industrialized Countries 19 Economic Development and the Environment 20 The Global Environment 21 International Environmental Agreements