Overview
- 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)
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Introduction
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Static Allocation Aspect
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Environmental-Policy Instruments
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Environmental Allocation in Space
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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.
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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