Description |
xvii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
Contents |
Part I. The Environment and the Economy -- 1. The Environment and Economics -- 2. The Economic System Revised -- Part II. Microeconomics and the Environment -- 3. The Market Model and it's Failure -- 4. Public Goods and Externalties -- 5. Consumer Demand and the Environment -- 6. Production, Costs, Supply and the Environment -- 7. Valuation of Environmental Goods and Services -- 8. Policy Frameworks -- i Resource Management -- 9. Policy Frameworks -- ii Regualtion and Instruments -- Part III. Macroeconomics and the Environment -- 10. Macroeconomics and the Environment -- 11. Environmental Capital: Investment and Depreciation -- 12. The Environment and Income Determination -- 13. The Environment in Other Macroeconomic Models -- Part IV. Revisiting the Scarcity Debate -- 14. Revisiting the Scarcity Debate |
Summary |
"This book provides comprehensive treatment of environmental economics. This work illustrates a novel approach to the formulation of environmental policy by developing the pertinent concepts and methods of economics by establishing links between the environment and the economy by recourse to the laws of thermodynamics."--BOOK JACKET |
Analysis |
Environmental economics |
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Economic modelling |
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Natural resources |
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Supply and demand |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography |
Subject |
Environmental policy.
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Environmental policy -- Economic aspects.
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
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Author |
Thampapillai, Dodo J.
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LC no. |
2003271341 |
ISBN |
0195535774 paperback |
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