Environmental economics :

Field, Barry C.

Environmental economics : an introduction / Barry C. Field, Martha K. Field. - 3rd ed. - New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2002. - xviii, 510 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes Index

Section 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: What Is Environmental Economics?
Chapter 2: The Economy and the Environment

Section 2: Analytical Tools
Chapter 3: Benefits and Costs, Supply and Demand
Chapter 4: Economic Efficiency and Markets
Chapter 5: The Economics of Environmental Quality

Section 3: Environmental Analysis
Chapter 6: Frameworks of Analysis
Chapter 7: Benefit-Cost Analysis: Benefits
Chapter 8: Benefit-Cost Analysis: Costs

Section 4: Environmental Policy Analysis
Chapter 9: Criteria for Evaluating Environmental Policies
Chapter 10:Decentralized Policies: Liability Laws, Property Rights, Voluntary Action
Chapter 11: Command-and-Control Strategies: The Case of Standards
Chapter 12: Incentive-Based Strategies: Emission Charges and Subsidies
Chapter 13: Incentive-Based Strategies: Transferable Discharge Permits.

Section V Environmental Policy in the United States
Chapter 14: Federal Water Pollution-Control Policy
Chapter 15: Federal Air Pollution-Control Policy
Chapter 16: Federal Policy on Toxic and Hazardous Substances
Chapter 17: State and Local Environmental Issues

Section 6: International Environmental Issues
Chapter 18: Environmental Issues in Other Industrialized Countries
Chapter 19: Economic Development and the Environment
Chapter 20: The Global Environment
Chapter 21: International Environmental Agreements


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Environmental economics.
Economic development--Environmental aspects.

HC79.E5 / F47
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