INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 1 Four Economic Questions about Global Warming
PART I: HOW MUCH POLLUTION IS TOO MUCH?
- Chapter 2 Ethics and Economics
- Chapter 3 Pollution and Resource Degradation as Externalities
- Chapter 4 The Efficiency Standard
- Chapter 5 The Safety Standard.
- Chapter 6 Sustainability: A Neoclassical View.
- Chapter 7 Sustainability: An Ecological View.
- Chapter 8 Measuring the Benefits of Environmental Protection.
- Chapter 9 Measuring the Costs of Environmental Protection.
- Chapter 10 Benefit–Cost in Practice: Implementing the Efficiency Standard.
- Chapter 11 Is More Really Better? Consumption and Welfare.
PART II: IS GOVERNMENT UP TO THE JOB?
- Chapter 12 The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation.
- Chapter 13 An Overview of Environmental Legislation.
- Chapter 14 The Regulatory Record: Achievements and Obstacles.
- Chapter 15 Monitoring and Enforcement.
PART III: HOW CAN WE DO BETTER?
- Chapter 16 Incentive-Based Regulation: Theory.
- Chapter 17 Incentive-Based Regulation: Practice.
- Chapter 18 Promoting Clean Technology: Theory.
- Chapter 19 Energy Policy and the Environment.
PART IV: CAN WE RESOLVE GLOBAL ISSUES?
- Chapter 20 Poverty, Population, and the Environment.
- Chapter 21 Environmental Policy in Poor Countries.
- Chapter 22 The Economics of Global Agreements.
Climate change and environmental policy are rapidly changing the world’s economic progress and outlook. Economics and the Environment provides students with a clear, concise, and comprehensive presentation of the standard analysis to environmental and resource economics. The text is also a compelling look at broader topics including the government’s role in environmental policy and more advanced theories. With a unique framework and compelling narrative style, Goodstein supplies timely discussions on the various approaches, schools, and research that are crucial for today’s students to consider for tomorrow’s world.
Key Features
- Four Questions organize the text’s theories and applications for the course in a way that students can understand.
- 1.) How much pollution and resource degradation is too much?
- 2.) Is government up to the job?
- 3.) How can we do better?
- 4.) How can we resolve global issues?
- Balanced introductory coverage of neoclassical versus ecological approaches to sustainability. Dual chapters explain the longstanding controversy through demonstrations of how to evaluate the costs of an environmental crisis.
- Accessible economics for both economics and environmental studies students. No matter what the students’ background or attitude, the text acknowledges common environmentalist objections to economics, and then invites the students to learn more.
- Credible and insightful author is Director of the Bard Center for Economic Policy and runs weekly follow-ups to the National Teach-In on Global Warming called The National Climate Dialogue.
- Student-friendly writing style and puzzles encourage students to learn more about substantive topics such as depreciating stocks of oil and other natural capital.
- The most up-to-date coverage of environmental hot topics.
New to this edition
- Significantly Revised Introductory Chapter provides a clear, accurate introduction of the current debate on global warming economics, including the Stern report and the advance in the benefit-cost discussion, Weitzman’s work on discounting and insurance, and complementing price policy with non-price efficiency.
- Newly Revised Political Economy Chapters (12-15) reflect the impact of the Bush Administration on the structure of regulation and enforcement and Obama’s policy framework.
- Updated discussions of cap-and-trade, pollution tax policy, and clean technology to reflect recent European and US experiences, concerns about biofuels, and new developments in the clean tech sector.
- New Coverage of green jobs and the stimulus argument.
- New End-of-Chapter Exercises and Applications give students an opportunity to work through and understand concepts and principles.
- Newly updated examples and references.
Book Details
- Paperback: 528 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 6 edition (October 5, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470561092
- ISBN-13: 978-0470561096
List Price: $100.99