| Description |
xii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: ethics, economists and the environment -- 1. Valuing the environment -- 2. Economists befriend the earth -- 3. Economic valuation and ecological economics -- 4. The limits of cost-benefit analysis as a guide to environmental policy -- 5. Sustainable development -- 6. Capital theory and the measurement of sustainable development: an indicator of 'weak' sustainability / Giles Atkinson -- 7. Measuring sustainable development: progress on indicators / Kirk Hamilton and Giles Atkinson -- 8. Economic growth and 'sustainable consumption' -- 9. Particulate matter and human health in the United Kingdom / Tom Crowards -- 10. Assessing the social rate of return from investment in temperate zone forestry -- 11. Global environmental value and the tropical forests: demonstration and capture -- 12. The economics of African wildlife utilization -- 13. Packaging waste and the polluter pays principle: a taxation solution / Kerry Turner |
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14. The social incidence of environmental costs and benefits -- 15. A social discount rate for the United Kingdom / David Ulph -- 16. Current economic costs of not using risk assessment in environmental policy at the European Community level -- 17. Competing paradigms for managing environmental change -- 18. The economics of global warming -- 19. The role of carbon taxes in adjusting to global warming |
| Summary |
The book begins with an introduction which gives an insight into the development of David Pearce's career in environmental economics. It is also an accessible guide to the role that environmental economics can play in policymaking and a forceful defence of his own position vis-a-vis different schools of thought. The essays cover four broad themes: ethics and ecological economics, sustainable development, applied environmental economics and global environmental change. Specific subject areas include environmental valuation, forestry, wildlife conservation, risk assessment, global warming and the role of carbon taxes |
| Notes |
Essays written over the course of the author's career. "Some are reprinted, with modifications, from previous publications, but many are printed here for the first time"--P. 1 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Environmental economics.
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Environmental indicators.
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Sustainable development -- Statistical methods.
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Sustainable development.
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| LC no. |
98046611 |
| ISBN |
1840643269 (paperback) |
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1852787724 |
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