Pollution Markets in a Green Country Town: Urban Environmental Management in Transition - Couverture rigide

Raufer, Roger

 
9780275961749: Pollution Markets in a Green Country Town: Urban Environmental Management in Transition
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ISBN 10 : 0275961745 ISBN 13 : 9780275961749
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1998

Synopsis

The brave new world of environmental economics—complete with pollution markets, emission brokers, and commodity auctions of emission allowances—has been developing in the U.S. for several decades. This book traces the evolution of such environmental management techniques in industrial Philadelphia. Initially as a greene country towne, the city's development led to significant pollution concerns, including rivers filled with sewage, typhoid deaths, and smoky plumes from coal combustion. Technological pollution controls improved conditions, but blunt regulatory tools eventually evolved into more refined economic approaches.

This book describes that transition and the economic mechanisms that have emerged in recent decades, as well as prospective markets for ozone precursors, greenhouse gas emissions, and environmental risk (potentially offering what one pundit labeled cancer futures). In doing so, it presents a comprehensive overview—from old to new—of urban environmental management.

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À propos de l?auteur

ROGER K. RAUFER is an independent consulting engineer and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds degrees in chemical engineering, environmental engineering, political science, and energy management. Coauthor of the book Acid Rain and Emissions Trading (1987), which helped develop the market-based approach for acid rain control adopted in the U.S. in 1990, he is currently assisting the United Nations with pollution control in four Chinese cities.

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0275961745
ISBN 13 
9780275961749
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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