Economics of the environment : selected readings / edited by Robert Dorfman, Nancy S. Dorfman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dorfman, Robert.

Dorfman, Nancy S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pollution--Economic aspects.

Pollution.

Environmental policy--Costs.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

x, 517 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Norton, [1993]

Summary:

This collection ranges from seminal essays on welfare economics to articles that probe such critical issues as global warming, deforestation, and hazardous waste disposal. Environmental policy options are explored in depth and the fundamental principles for assessing their benefits and costs are developed and illustrated. The Third Edition, like its two enormously successful predecessors, provides the strongest possible grounding in the literature of environmental economics.

Contents:

The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin

The economic common sense of pollution / Larry E. Ruff

Analysis of environmental pollution / Allen V. Kneese

EPA and the evolution of federal regulation / Paul R. Portney

Some concepts from welfare economics / Robert Dorfman

The economic theory of a common-property resource : the fishery / H. Scott Gordon

The problem of social cost / Ronald Coase

On divergences between social cost and private cost / Ralph Turvey

The problem of market failure / Alan Randall

The economics of resources or the resources of economics / Robert M. Solow

Sustainability : an economist's perspective / Robert M. Solow

Conservation reconsidered / John V. Krutilla

Regulatory strategies for pollution control / A. Michael Spence, Martin L. Weitzman

Land, water, and ownership / J.H. Dales

Transferable discharge permits and the control of stationary source air pollution / Thomas H. Tietenberg

Economic incentives in the management of hazardous wastes / Clifford S. Russell

Weighing alternatives for toxic waste cleanup / Peter Passell

An introduction to benefit-cost analysis / Robert Dorfman

Criteria for social investment / Kenneth J. Arrow

Comparisons of methods for recreation evaluation / Jack L. Knetsch, Robert K. Davis

Bidding games for valuation of aesthetic environmental improvements / Alan Randall, Berry Ives, Clyde Eastman

The economic value of life : linking theory to practice / J. Steven Landefeld, Eugene P. Seskin

The life you save may be your own / Thomas C. Schelling

Risk assessment and comparisons : an introduction / Richard Wilson, E.A.C. Crouch

Controlling urban air pollution : a benefit-cost assessment / Alan J. Krupnick, Paul R. Portney

International cooperation for environmental protection / Scott Barrett

Some economics of global warming / Thomas C. Schelling

Economic activity and the greenhouse effect / Yoshiki Ogawa

Adverse environmental consequences of the green revolution / David Pimentel, Marcia Pimentel

Deforestation and species loss / Kenton R. Miller, Walter V. Reid, Charles V. Barber.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0393963101

9780393963106

OCLC:

25915372

Publisher Number:

ZBWT00468890