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Economics of the Environment

Theory and Policy

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  • © 2008

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Authors:
  1. Horst Siebert

    1. President-Emeritus, Kiel Institute of World Economics, Kiel, Germany

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  • Standard title on environmental economics

  • With a comprehensive presentation of allocation theory and environmental policy approaches

  • New edition with updated data and additional topics

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Problem

      Pages 3-6

    3. Using the Environment – An Allocation Problem

      Pages 7-24

  4. Environmental-Policy Instruments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Incidence of an Emission Tax

      Pages 107-125

    3. Policy Instruments

      Pages 127-152

    4. Policy Instruments and the Casuistics of Pollution

      Pages 153-162

    5. The Political Economy of Environmental Scarcity

      Pages 163-170

  5. Environmental Allocation in Space

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Environmental Endowment, Competitiveness and Trade

      Pages 173-194

    3. Transfrontier Pollution

      Pages 195-207

    4. Global Environmental Media

      Pages 209-227

    5. Regional Aspects of Environmental Allocation

      Pages 229-248

  6. Environmental Allocation in Time and Under Uncertainty

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-249
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About this book

The labor of nature is paid, not because she does much, but because she does little. In proportion as she becomes niggardly in her gifts, she exacts a greater price for her work. Where she is munificently bene- cent, she always works gratis. 1 David Ricardo This book interprets nature and the environment as a scarce resource. Whereas in the past people lived in a paradise of environmental superabundance, at present environmental goods and services are no longer in ample supply. The environment fulfills many functions for the economy: it serves as a public-c- sumption good, as a provider of natural resources, and as receptacle of waste. These different functions compete with each other. Releasing more pollutants into the environment reduces environmental quality, and a better environmental quality implies that the environment’s use as a receptacle of waste has to be restrained. Consequently, environmental disruption and environmental use are by nature allocation problems. This is the basic message of this book.

Authors and Affiliations

  • President-Emeritus, Kiel Institute of World Economics, Kiel, Germany

    Horst Siebert

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Economics of the Environment

  • Book Subtitle: Theory and Policy

  • Authors: Horst Siebert

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73707-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-73706-3Published: 03 January 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09287-9Published: 19 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-73707-0Published: 08 December 2007

  • Edition Number: 7

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 333

  • Topics: Environmental Economics, Environmental Management

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