Field, Berry C.

Environmental Economics : an introduction / Berry C. Field, Martha K. Field - New York : Mcgraw-Hill, c2007. - xx,471 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Contents
Section one: Introduction
What is environmental economics?
The economy and Environment

Section Two: Analytical Tools
Benefits and Costs, Supply and demand
Markets, Externalities and public goods
Economics of environmental quality

Section Three: Environmental Analysis
Framework of Analysis
Benefit-cost Analysis
Benefits
Cost

Section Four: Environmental Policy Analysis
Criteria for evaluating Environmental policies
Decentralized policies: Liability laws, Property Rights, Voluntary action
Command-and-Control strategies: The case of Standards
Incentive-based strategies: Emission charges and Subsidies
Incentive-Based strategies: Market Trading system
Section Five: Environmental policy in the United States
Federal water pollution control polcy
Federal Air pollution-control Policy
Federal policy on Toxic and Hardous substance
State and Local Environmental issues

Section Six: Global Environmental issues
The Global Environmental
International Environmental agreements
Globalization
Economic Development and the Environment


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