This comprehensive and popular textbook is a core text for undergraduate students of environmental economics, and also appeals to geographers and environmentalists. The book deals fully with the orthodox theorems of the economics of pollution and optimal depletion rates for natural resources.
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Covers most of the 'main stream' of environmental and resource economics but with greater emphasis on the theme of sustainable economic development and on alternative normative and analytical perspectives that most texts in this field offer... (In fact, I will be using it in my course this year.).
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A super helpful book for non-econ, calculus-literate students of environmental science. For environmental econ students, here's an excellence reference book that explains the basic models more thoroughly than most other environmental econ books. Also includes a reasonable amount of bibliographical information to start off research in the discipline.
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The authors give a very good insight on the economics of the environment and polution. How a pareto optimum is received by the benefits and costs of polution. Also how innovation and tax affects production and polution. I am not a student but just interested in economics. The graphs make it understandable and a good book to read.
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Environmental stresses and strains are now ubiquitous phenomena appearing in all economic systems, regardless of political ideology, from the very poorest to the very rich. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update by Donella H. Meadows on 6 pages
- Environmental Economics: An Elementary Introduction by R. Kerry Turner in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Global Possible: Resources, Development, and the New Century (World Resources Institute Book) by Dr. Robert Repetto on page 23, and Back Matter
- Energy and the Future (Maryland studies in public philosophy) by Douglas Maclean in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Environmental Economics (Modern economics) by D. W. Pearce in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Environmental Economics: An Elementary Introduction by R. Kerry Turner on 4 pages
- Environmental Governance: The Global Challenge by Lamont C. Hempel on page 89, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Industrial Ecology and Global Change by Robert Socolow on page 380, and page 403
- Global Environmental Economics: Equity and the Limits to Markets by Mohammed H. I. Dore on page 91, and page 331
- Sustainable Practices in the Built Environment by Craig Langston on page 43, and page 73
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