Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• halftitle
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• New to this Edition
• Contents
• How to Use this Book
• How to Use the Online Resources
• 1 Introduction: Economics for the Environment
  • 1.1 Welcome
  • 1.2 The Economy and the Environment
  • 1.3 Ten Key Insights from Economics
  • 1.4 Using This Book for Teaching and Learning
• 2 Markets and the Environment
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 The Power of Markets
  • 2.3 Market Failure
  • 2.4 Market Incentives for Environment Protection
  • 2.5 Summary
• 3 Incentives for Conservation
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Zoning/Planning
  • 3.3 Impact Fees
  • 3.4 Subsidies
  • 3.5 Transferable Development Rights (TDR) with Zoning
  • 3.6 Conservation Banking
  • 3.7 Conservation Easements
  • 3.8 Summary
• 4 Valuing the Environment: Concepts and Methods
  • 4.1 What Does Economic Value Mean?
  • 4.2 In What Sense Does the Environment have Economic Value?
  • 4.3 Methods for Valuing the Environment
  • 4.4 Benefits Transfer
  • 4.5 Summary
• 5 Cost-Benefit Analysis and Environmental Policy
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Why Undertake Cost-Benefit Analysis?
  • 5.3 Stages of a CBA
  • 5.4 Discounting and the Discount Rate
  • 5.5 Using CBA in Environmental Management and Policy Analysis
  • 5.6 Conclusions
• 6 Environmental Risk and Behaviour
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Behaviour under Risk
  • 6.3 Behavioural Economics and Risk
  • 6.4 Valuing Risks to Life and Limb
  • 6.5 Regulating Risk
  • 6.6 Concluding Remarks
• 7 Economic Growth, the Environment, and Sustainable Development
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Economic Growth and Development
  • 7.3 Predictions from the Past
  • 7.4 Growth and the Environment: The Environmental Kuznets Curve
  • 7.5 The Economics of Sustainable Development
  • 7.6 Summary
• 8 Conflicts and Cooperation: Strategic Interactions
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Game Theory
  • 8.3 Co-operative Games
  • 8.4 Game Theory and Transboundary Pollution Control
  • 8.5 Summary
• 9 The Economics of Non-renewable Natural Resources
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 The Extraction of a Non-renewable Resource
  • 9.3 Testing the Hotelling Rule
  • 9.4 Measuring Resource Scarcity
  • 9.5 Hotelling and the Oil Market
  • 9.6 Summary
• 10 The Economics of Renewable Resources: Fisheries and Forestry
  • 10.1 Introduction
  • 10.2 Fisheries Economics
  • 10.3 Forestry
  • 10.4 Summary
• 11 Trade and the Environment
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 Why do Countries Gain from Trade?
  • 11.3 Empirical Evidence on the Trade Effects of Environmental Regulation
  • 11.4 International Trade Agreements and the Environment
  • 11.5 Summary
• 12 The Economics of Climate Change
  • 12.1 Introduction
  • 12.2 Background
  • 12.3 A Global Environmental Risk
  • 12.4 The Challenge of International Coordination
  • 12.5 Incentives Matter for Cost-effective Climate Policy
  • 12.6 The Benefits and Costs of International Co-operation
  • 12.7 Economic Issues Underlying Benefit and Cost Estimates
  • 12.8 A Flexibility–Stringency Trade-off
  • 12.9 Summary
• 13 The Economics of Water Quality Improvement
  • 13.1 Introduction
  • 13.2 Trends Over Time
  • 13.3 The Costs of Improving Water Quality
  • 13.4 Non-point Source Water Pollution: A Difficult Problem to Solve
  • 13.5 Measuring Water Quality Benefits
  • 13.6 Problems for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Water Quality Improvements
  • 13.7 Conclusions
• 14 The Economics of Household Waste and Recycling
  • 14.1 Introduction
  • 14.2 Quantifying the External Costs of Waste Disposal
  • 14.3 Policy Options for Waste Management
  • 14.4 How Best to Increase Recycling?
  • 14.5 Conclusions
• 15 Energy and the Environment
  • 15.1 Introduction
  • 15.2 Historical Patterns of Energy Consumption
  • 15.3 The Role of Energy Policy
  • 15.4 Renewable Electricity Policy
  • 15.5 Summary
• 16 Biodiversity
  • 16.1 Introduction
  • 16.2 What to Conserve?
  • 16.3 The Economic Value of Biodiversity
  • 16.4 Biodiversity and the Design of Conservation Policy
  • 16.5 Summary
• Glossary
• Index

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