Environmental Economics and Policy or Economic Development

Environmental Economics and Policy

Author: Tom Tietenberg

Tom Tietenberg has written the ideal book for a policy-oriented course in environmental economics, accessible to both non-majors and majors. He begins with a brief introduction to the core theory, and then offers a series of self-contained policy chapters that allow professors great flexibility when planning their course.

 

With an overhaul of the applications, a new Debate feature that highlights today’s policy issues, and the latest research integrated throughout, The Fifth Edition represents the most thorough revision in over a decade.

 

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Strongly emphasizes public policy and draws on insights from the natural and physical sciences and other disciplines to show how economics can be used both to understand the behavioral sources of environmental problems and to provide the foundation for solutions. Among the topics: the economics of recycling; global deforestation; incentive policies; oil spills and ocean dumping; the Gaia hypothesis; nuclear power; renewable energy sources. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1	Visions of the future	1
2	Valuing the environment : concepts	13
3	Valuing the environment : methods	31
4	Property rights, externalities, and environmental problems	59
5	Sustainable development : defining the concept	84
6	The population problem	98
7	Natural resource economics : an overview	122
8	Energy	135
9	Water	162
10	Agriculture	187
11	Biodiversity I : forest habitat	211
12	Biodiversity II : commercially valuable species	234
13	Environmental economics : an overview	257
14	Stationary-source local air pollution	281
15	Acid rain and atmospheric modification	306
16	Transportation	334
17	Water pollution	359
18	Solid waste and recycling	386
19	Toxic substances and hazardous wastes	406
20	Development, poverty, and the environment	434
21	The quest for sustainable development	459
22	Visions of the future revisited	493

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Economic Development

Author: Michael Todaro

Economic Development , 10/e is the leading textbook in this field, providing a complete and balanced introduction to the requisite theory, the driving policy issues, and the latest research.

Principles and Concepts: Economics, Institutions, and Development: A Global Perspective; Comparative Economic Development; Classic Theories of Economic Growth and Development; Contemporary Models of Development and Underdevelopment. Problems and Policies: Domestic: Poverty, Inequality, and Development; Population Growth and Economic Development: Causes, Consequences, Controversies; Urbanization and Rural-Urban Migration: Theory and Policy; Human Capital: Education and Health in Economic Development; Agricultural Transformation and Rural Development; The Environment and Development; Development Policymaking and the Roles of Market, State, and Civil Society. Problems and Policies: International and Macro: International Trade Theory and Development Strategy; Balance of Payments, Developing-Country Debt, and Issues in Macroeconomic Stabilization; Foreign Finance, Investment, and Aid: Controversies and Opportunities; Finance and Fiscal Policy for Development; Some Critical Issues for the Twenty-First Century.

For all readers interested in economic development.