Environmental Economics
Concepts, Methods and Policies
- 344 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Environmental Economics explores the ways in which economic theory and its applications, as practised and taught today, must be modified to explicitly accommodate the goal of sustainability and the vital role played by environmental capital.
Pivoting around the first and second laws of thermodynamics, as well as the principles of ecological resilience, this book is divided into five key parts, which includes extensive coverage of environmental microeconomics and macroeconomics. It drills down into issues and challenges including consumer demand; production and supply; market organisation; renewable and non-renewable resources; environmental valuation; macroeconomic stabilisation, and international trade and globalisation. Drawing on case studies from forestry, water, soil, air quality, and mining, this book will equip readers with skills that enable the analyses of environmental and economic policy issues with a specific focus on the sustainability of the economy. This new edition has been updated throughout and provides further coverage on topics such as energy transition, market organisation and the role of environmental economics in regulatory decision-making including critiques of contemporary policy directives like tradable pollution permits and net zero emissions. Challenges to achieving stabilisation and emission reduction have been expanded to include wars and conflicts such as those in the Middle East and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The book further reinforces the premise that there are clear limits to growth and that modesty and moderation are superior alternatives.
Rich in pedagogical features, including key concepts boxes and review questions at the end of each chapter, this book will be a vital resource for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students studying not only environmental economics/ecological economics but also economics in general.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Nature-Capital (KN) and the Economy
- Part II Microeconomics and KN
- Part III Macroeconomics and KN
- Part IV Valuation
- Part V Policy
- Index