2nd Edition
Economics and the Environment A signalling and incentives approach
By Ian Wills
Copyright 2006
400 Pages
by
Routledge
400 Pages
by
Routledge
400 Pages
by
Routledge
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Coordinating our use of the earth's natural resources is not easy. Resource users are many, their goals diverse, and their impacts on the environment often uncertain. How we use those resources depends on the signals and incentives we receive, from either the market or our governments. These systems encourage certain uses of natural resources, but they are not perfect. We harm the environment not... Read more
I: SOCIAL COORDINATION, THE ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
1. Introduction
2. Scarcity and systems of social coordination
3. Social coordination in market and planned economies
4. The economy and the environment
II: LIMITATIONS OF MARKET SIGNALLING AND INCENTIVES
5. High costs of markets
6. Non-excludable goods
7. Common pool resources
8. Limitations of government signalling and incentives
III: DECISION-MAKING TOOLS
9. Decision making over time
10. Cost-benefit analysis of environmental changes
11. Valuing the environment
12. Stated preference valuation techniques
13. Monitoring changes in economic-environmental systems (available online)
IV: LOCALISED ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
14. The economics of pollution control: two parties
15. The economics of pollution control: many parties
16. Social coordination in waste disposal and recycling (available online)
1. Introduction
2. Scarcity and systems of social coordination
3. Social coordination in market and planned economies
4. The economy and the environment
II: LIMITATIONS OF MARKET SIGNALLING AND INCENTIVES
5. High costs of markets
6. Non-excludable goods
7. Common pool resources
8. Limitations of government signalling and incentives
III: DECISION-MAKING TOOLS
9. Decision making over time
10. Cost-benefit analysis of environmental changes
11. Valuing the environment
12. Stated preference valuation techniques
13. Monitoring changes in economic-environmental systems (available online)
IV: LOCALISED ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
14. The economics of pollution control: two parties
15. The economics of pollution control: many parties
16. Social coordination in waste disposal and recycling (available online)
Biography
Ian Wills is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University, where he teaches in the economics and graduate environmental science programs.
