| Description |
660 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
The Addison-Wesley series in economics |
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Addison-Wesley series in economics.
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| Contents |
1. Visions of the future -- 2. Valuing the environment: concepts -- 3. Valuing the environment: methods -- 4. Property rights, externalities, and environmental problems -- 5. Dynamic efficiency and sustainable development -- 6. The population problem -- 7. The allocation of depletable and renewable resources: an overview -- 8. Energy: the transition from depletable to renewable resources -- 9. Recyclable resources: minerals, paper, bottles, and e-waste -- 10. Replenishable but depletable resources: water -- 11. Land -- 12. Reproducible private-property resources: agriculture -- 13. Storable, renewable resources: forests -- 14. Common-pool resources: fisheries and other commercially valuable species -- 15. Economics of pollution control: an overview -- 16. Stationary-source local air pollution -- 17. Regional and global air pollutants: acid rain and atmospheric modification -- 18. Mobile-source air pollution -- 19. Water pollution -- 20. Toxic substance -- 21. Environmental justice -- 22. Development, poverty, and the environment -- 23. The quest for sustainable development -- 24. Visions of the future revisitied |
| Analysis |
Environment policy |
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Environmental economics |
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Natural resources |
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Overseas item |
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Sustainable development |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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Previous ed.: 2006 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Environmental economics.
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Environmental policy.
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Natural resources -- Government policy.
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Natural resources.
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Raw materials -- Government policy.
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| Author |
Lewis, Lynne.
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| ISBN |
9780321560469 |
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