Economics and the Environment
Allen & Unwin (Verlag)
978-1-86448-257-7 (ISBN)
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Coordinating our use of the earth's natural resources is not easy. Resource users are many, their goals diverse, and their impacts on the environment often uncertain. How we use those resources depends on the signals and incentives we receive, from either the market or our governments. These systems encourage certain uses of natural resources, but they are not perfect. We harm the environment not out of malice, but because we do not know the consequences of our actions, or the incentives for harm are too great to ignore. Economics and the Environment argues that, by lowering the cost and improving the quality of the necessary signals and incentives, we can better reconcile our diverse interests in the environment. It introduces an economic way of thinking about environmental issues, without assuming a background in economics: . how the economy and the environment interact . how resource use is coordinated in ideal market and planned economies . the barriers to ideal signalling and incentives in real markets and real government planning . the economist's tools for dealing with natural resource issues . the uncertainty and com
Ian Wills is a Senior Lecturer in economics at Monash University, and has also taught at the University of Arizona.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I Social coordination, the economy and the environment1 Introduction2 Scarcity and systems of social coordination3 Social coordination in market and planned economies4 The economy and the environmentPart II Reasons for coordination failuresLimitations of market signalling and incentives:5 high costs of markets6 non-excludable goods7 common pool resources8 Limitations of government signalling and incentivesPart III Decision-making tools 9 Decision making over time10 Cost-benefit analysis of environmental changes11 Valuing the environment12 Monitoring changes in economic-environmental systemsPart IV Localised environmental problems 13 Social coordination in waste disposal and recycling14 The economics of pollution control: two parties15 The economics of pollution control: many partiesPart V Uncertainty and worldwide problems16 Social coordination un
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.7.1997 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 560 g |
| Themenwelt | Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-86448-257-5 / 1864482575 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-86448-257-7 / 9781864482577 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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