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The economics of the environment

Berck, Peter,

The economics of the environment Peter Berck and Gloria E Helfand - Noida Pearson Education Pvt. Ltd c2014 - 528 P. Paper


Table of Content

Chapter 1. Economics and the Environment
Chapter 2. Supply and Demand: Market Forces and the Environment
Chapter 3. Markets and Market Failure: A Cause of Environmental Degradation
Chapter 4. Consumer Behavior and the Environment
Chapter 5. Measuring Benefits to Consumers
Chapter 6. Revealed Preference
Chapter 7. Stated Preference Methods
Chapter 8. From Production to Pollution
Chapter 9. Production, Pollution, Output, and Prices
Chapter 10. Maximizing Net Benefits in the Presence of Externalities
Chapter 11. Private Markets and the Environment: The Coase Theorem
Chapter 12. Government Policies for Environmental Protection
Chapter 13. Enforcement and Political Economy
Chapter 14. The Time Factor: Discounting
Chapter 15. Benefit-Cost Analysis
Chapter 16. Nonrenewable Resource Management
Chapter 17. Renewable Resource Management
Chapter 18. Economic Growth and the Environment
Chapter 19. Sustainability


The Economics of the Environment completely integrates economics and environmental issues, explaining how both market successes and failures affect the environment. This text also shows students how to measure the value of environmental goods, the use of these measurements in weighing environmental costs against the benefits of economic activity, and the implementation of policies to correct market failures.

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Economic policy----Environmental aspects
Environmental protection

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