The Economics of the Environment
The Economics of the Environment completely integrates economics and environmental issues, explaining how both market successes and failures affect the environment.
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The Economics of the Environment
The Economics of the Environment completely integrates economics and environmental issues, explaining how both market successes and failures affect the environment. This text also shows students how to measure the value of environmental goods, the use of these measurements in weighing environmental costs against the benefits of economic activity and the implementation of policies to correct market failures.
Features:
- Summaries of key lessons after major chapter and chapterending sections.
- Introducing students to active research Real-world Cases. A unique feature to this text is the extended use of one core example per chapter that’s based on actual data.
- Understanding the microeconomic principles in environmental problems Economic Tools. This text includes all of the graphical economic tools necessary for
understanding the application of microeconomic principles to environmental problems. - Seeing the concepts from many angles Multiple Examples. To help students see the concepts in several different situations, this text’s chapters include numerous boxed examples that apply the same concepts to completely new situations.
- Solidifying knowledge Concept Reinforcement. At the end of every chapter, students will find a higher-level set of lessons, as well as end-of-chapter exercises and qualitative questions.
Contents:
1. Economics and the Environment
2. Supply and Demand: Market Forces and the Environment
3. Markets and Market Failure: A Cause of Environmental Degradation
4. Consumer Behavior and the Environment
5. Measuring Benefits to Consumers
6. Revealed Preference
7. Stated Preference Methods
8. From Production to Pollution
9. Production, Pollution, Output, and Prices
10. Maximizing Net Benefits in the Presence of Externalities
11. Private Markets and the Environment: The Coase Theorem
12. Government Policies for Environmental Protection
13. Enforcement and Political Economy
14. The Time Factor: Discounting
15. Benefit-Cost Analysis
16. Nonrenewable Resource Management
17. Renewable Resource Management
18. Economic Growth and the Environment
19. Sustainability
| Book | |
|---|---|
| Author | Berck / Helfand |
| Pages | 528 |
| Year | 2015 |
| ISBN | 9789332550384 |
| Publisher | Pearson |
| Language | English |
| Uncategorized | |
| Edition | 1/e |
| Weight | 680 g |
| Dimensions | 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm |
| Binding | Paperback |