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Environmental Economics: A Critical Overview
Alan Gilpin
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Description for Environmental Economics: A Critical Overview
Paperback. Environmental economics embraces the issues of market failures, pollution control, environment protection and resource allocation. This text is concerned with ways and means to achieve this allocation through government intervention by way of statutory regulation. Series: Modules in Environmental Science. Num Pages: 352 pages, maps. BIC Classification: KCN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 502.
A comprehensive, jargon-free introductory text on the issues, ideas, theories and problems of environmental economics, ideal for both students of economics and those without economic training.
Environmental Eeconomics is a fundamental area of environmental studies covering the exploitation, evaluation and conservation of natural resources, and the impact of this on local, regional, national and international economics. This book stresses the links between economic concepts and real world issues and deals with population, natural resources, valuation, environmental regulation, economic instruments, cost-benefit analysis, waste, water resources, air pollution, global warming, biodiversity and world trade.
It covers a range of controversial ... Read more
A comprehensive, jargon-free introductory text on the issues, ideas, theories and problems of environmental economics, ideal for both students of economics and those without economic training.
Environmental Eeconomics is a fundamental area of environmental studies covering the exploitation, evaluation and conservation of natural resources, and the impact of this on local, regional, national and international economics. This book stresses the links between economic concepts and real world issues and deals with population, natural resources, valuation, environmental regulation, economic instruments, cost-benefit analysis, waste, water resources, air pollution, global warming, biodiversity and world trade.
It covers a range of controversial ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Modules in Environmental Science
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471985594
SKU
V9780471985594
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Alan Gilpin
The late Alan Gilpin, formerly Honorary Visiting Fellow, University of New South Wales, Australia.
Reviews for Environmental Economics: A Critical Overview
"...The book is both literate and easy to read..." (Ecological Economics, Vol.40, 2002) "...highly informed and informative..." (Eastern Economic Journal) "...a well written introductory text..." (The Environmentalist, Vol.22, 2002)