Enviromental economics: theory, application, and policy/
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Reading, MA:
Addison-Welsey,
1999
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Foreword
- About the author
- About the contributors
- Part I. Economic theory, concepts and methods: Chapter 1. Competition, monopoly and social welfare
- Chapter 2. Measuring economic welfare and environment quality
- Chapter 3. Valuing the environment and benefit - cost analysis
- Chapter 4. Benefit - cost analysis and discounting
- Chapter 5. Equity, environment and economics
- Chapter 6. Economic theory and environmental resources
- Part II. Renewable energy economics and conservation: Chapter 7. Personal and household energy: economics and environment
- Chapter 8. Renewable energy economics
- Part III. The question of global resources limitations: Chapter 9. World oil: a strategic limited resources?
- Chapter 10. The limits to growth question: industrial resources, depletion, recycling and population
- Part IV. Renewable environmental resources: air and water quality, agriculture and forestry: Chapter 11. Air pollution control: economics and policy
- Chapter 12. Water quality economics
- Chapter 13. Agriculture, the environment and economics
- Chapter 14. Forestry economics
- Part V. The global environment: Chapter 15. Biodiversity and endangered species
- Chapter 16. The Kruger National Park in a New South Africa
- Chapter 17. Macroeconomics, trade and environment
- Chapter 18. Climate change: economics and policy
- Part VI. Ecological economics, sustainability and environment: Chapter 19. Ecological economics: an emerging alternative to environmental economics
- Chapter 20. Sustainability, economy and environment
- Appendix
- Index