Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment - Couverture souple

Pearce, David W.; Turner, R. Kerry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801839874 ISBN 13 : 9780801839870

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990

Synopsis

Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment brings together the approaches of natural resource economics and environmental economics to provide a comprhensive overview of the economics of national international and global environmental problems. A unifying theme throuhhout the book is the concept of "sustainable development" defined as "maximizing the net benefits of economic development while maintaining the services and quality of natural resources over time."

The authors emphasize the continuing importance of a mainstream approach. They stress "economic efficiency--getting the most welfare out of a given endowment of resources." And they address the larger moral issues as well. Chapter topics include the historical development of environmental economics, environmental ethics, and pollution control policy in "free" mixed market and centrally planned economies. Other current issues seen from an economic perspective include destruction of the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, policy weapons in the fight against pollution, and the special problems of the third world.

Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment offers a thorough review and synthesis of the major work of the field's senior scholars. It will be of value not only to students of natural resource economics, environmental economics, geography, and environmental sciences but also to all with an interest in economic appraoches to environmental issues.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David W. Pearce is professor of economics and director of the Environmental Economics Centre, University College, London. R. Kerry Turner is senior lecturer at the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment brings together the approaches of natural resource economics and environmental economics to provide a comprehensive overview of the economics of national, international, and global environmental problems. A unifying theme throughout the book is the concept of "sustainable development", defined as "maximizing the net benefits of economic development while maintaining the services and quality of natural resources over time."

The authors emphasize the continuing importance of a mainstream approach. They stress "economic efficiency - getting the most welfare out of a given endowment of resources". And they address the larger moral issues as well. Chapter topics induce the historical development of environmental economics; environmental ethics; and pollution control policy in "free", mixed market, and centrally planned economies. Other current issues seen from an economic perspective induce destruction of the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, policy weapons in the fight against pollution, and the special problems of the third world.

Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment offers a thorough review and synthesis of the major work of the field's senior scholars. It will be of value not only to students of natural resource economics, environmental economics, geography, and environmental sciences but also to all with an interest in economic approaches to environmental issues.

"For all we know," the authors write, "it may be perfectly possible to dispense with natural environments in favor of an encapsulated world of plastics and microchips. In all probability the issue is not survival in chat sense. But the issue surely is one of how far clown chat road we wish to travel, and what regrets we think our grandchildren will have if we travel clown it too far."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0801839874
• ISBN 13: 9780801839870
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 392
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible