Goodstein E.S., Polasky S. Economics and the Environment

Wiley, 2013. — 545 p. — 7th ed. — ISBN: 1118539729, 9781118539729Economics and the Environment 7th Edition, provides a rigorous and comprehensive presentation of the "standard analysis," including the property-rights basis of environmental problems, efficient pollution control, benefit-estimation procedures, and incentive based procedures. This text examines a broad range of topics in environmental and natural resource economics. It presents in-depth treatment of important issues at the cutting edge of environmental policy debates. The focus is on equipping students with the tools necessary to analyse current environmental issues as an economist would.Four Economic Questions about Global Warming
Ethics and Economics
Pollution and Resource Degradation as Externalities
The Efficiency Standard
Measuring the Benefits of Environmental Protection
Measuring the Costs of Environmental Protection
The Safety Standard
The Sustainability Standard
Measuring Sustainability
Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services
Is More Really Better? Consumption and Welfare
The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation
An Overview of Environmental Legislation
The Regulatory Record: Achievements and Obstacles
Incentive-Based Regulation: Theory
Incentive Based Regulation: Practice
Promoting Clean Technology: Theory
Energy and the Future
Poverty, Population, and the Environment
Environmental Policy in Poor Countries
The Economics of Global Agreements