Principles of Environmental and Resource Economics

A Guide for Students and Decision-Makers

Henk Folmer, H. L. Gabel, Hans Opschoor (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

512 Seiten

1995
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85898-224-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This major book is a comprehensive, non-technical overview of the principles of environmental and resource economics. The economic causes and consequences of environmental and resource problems are thoroughly addressed by a distinguished group of authors who also provide a comprehensive assessment of environmental policy instruments and corporate responses to environmental problems.The economic causes of environmental and resource problems are the major theme of the first part of this volume which also discusses links to such important areas as growth theory, national accounting and public policymaking. The goals and principles of environmental policy are addressed in the second part which provides a comprehensive overview of the various instruments applied in practice. Means of analysing the economic implications of environmental policy are also discussed as well as the valuation of environmental quality and environmental policy in an international context. The third part shifts the focus to business decision makers to examine the involvement of firms with the regulatory process and the pay-offs provided by this involvement. Environmental technology development and implementation as well as the solid waste problem are addressed in the final part.

Comprehensive and authoritative, Principles of Environmental and Resource Economics offers a non-technical state-of-the-art review which will be widely used as a teaching tool for students and a reference point for practitioners and researchers.

Autor

Edited by Henk Folmer, Professor of Research Methodology, Groningen University and Professor of General Economics, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, H. Landis Gabel, Professor of Economics and Management, INSEAD, France and J(Hans)B. Opschoor, former Rector, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands and Professor of Environmental Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Inhalt

Contents: Foreword (Henk van der Plas) 1. Environmental and Resource Economics: An Introduction (Henk Folmer, Landis Gabel, Hans Opschoor) Part I: Environment and Natural Resources in an Economic Perspective (edited by Henk Folmer) 2. Markets and Externalities (Karl-Gustaf Löfgren) 3. Public Policies and Externalities (Stef Proost) 4. Dynamics and Uncertainty (Marji Lines) 5. The Economics of Natural Resource Utilization (Olli Tahvonen and Jari Kuuluvainen) 6. Welfare Indices and the Environmental Resource Base (Karl-Göran Mäler) Part II: The Economics of Environmental Policies 7. Goals, Principles and Constraints in Environmental Policies (Tomasz Zylicz) 8. Valuing the Environment (Mordechai Shechter) 9. Environmental Policy and Policy Instruments (J.-P. Barde) 10. International Coordination of Environmental Policies (Harmen Verbruggen and H.Jansen) 11. Modelling the Economic Consequences of Environmental Policies (Samuel Fankhauser and Daniel McCoy) 12. Environmental Policy in the European Union (Pavlos Karadeloglou, Tony Ikwue and Jim Skea) Part III: The Firm and the Environment (edited by H. Landis Gabel) 13. A Firm’s Involvement in the Policy-Making Process (Francois Lévêque and Alain Nadaï) 14. Environmental Management as Competitive Strategy: the Case of CFC (Landis Gabel) 15. Corporate Responses to Environmental Concerns (H. Landis Gabel and Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné) 16. Environmental Information Systems and Eco-Auditing (Jürgen Freimann) 17. Environmental Technology (James Skea) 18. Environmental Issues and Operations Strategy (Charles Corbett and Luk Van Wassenhove) 19. Waste Management (R. Kerry Turner)

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: New Horizons in Environmental Economics series
• Verlagsort: Cheltenham
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• ISBN-10: 1-85898-224-3 / 1858982243
• ISBN-13: 978-1-85898-224-3 / 9781858982243
• Zustand: Neuware