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LEADER: 03245cam a2200301 a 4500
001 2007014814
003 DLC
005 20080227154751.0
008 070412s2007 dcua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007014814
020 $a9781597260473 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a1597260479 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a9781597260466 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a1597260460 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aHC79.E5$bK422 2007
082 00 $a333$222
100 1 $aKeohane, Nathaniel O.
245 10 $aMarkets and the environment /$cNathaniel O. Keohane, Sheila M. Olmstead.
260 $aWashington, DC :$bIsland Press,$cc2007.
300 $axi, 274 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
490 0 $aFoundations of contemporary environmental studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Economics and the environment -- Global climate change -- Organization and content of this book -- What we hope readers will take away from this book -- Economic efficiency and environmental protection -- Economic efficiency -- Efficiency and environmental policy -- Equating benefits and costs on the margin -- Dynamic efficiency and environmental policy -- Conclusion -- The benefits and costs of environmental protection -- Measuring costs -- Evaluating the benefits -- Benefit-cost analysis -- Conclusion -- The efficiency of markets -- Competitive market equilibrium -- The efficiency of competitive markets -- Conclusion -- Market failures in the environmental realm -- Externalities -- Public goods -- The tragedy of the commons -- Conclusions -- Managing stocks: natural resources as capital assets -- Economic scarcity -- Efficient extraction in two periods -- A closer look at the efficient extraction path -- The critical role of property rights -- Conclusion -- Stocks that grow: the economics of renewable resource management -- Economics of forest resources -- Fisheries -- Conclusion -- Principles of market-based environmental policy -- Array of policy instruments -- Market-based policies can overcome market failure -- Is it preferable to set prices or quantities? -- Conclusions -- The case for market-based instruments in the real world -- Reducing costs -- Promoting technological change -- Marked-based instruments for managing natural resources -- Other considerations -- Conclusions -- Market based instruments in practice -- The U.S. sulfur dioxide market -- Individual tradable quotas for fishing in New Zealand -- Municipal water pricing -- Water quality trading -- Waste management: "pay as you throw" -- Habitat and land management -- Conclusions -- Sustainability and economic growth -- Limits to growth? -- Sustainability, in economic terms -- Keeping track: green accounting -- Are economic growth and sustainability compatible? -- Conclusions -- Conclusion -- What does economics imply for environmental policy? -- The role of firms, consumers, and governments -- Some final thoughts.
650 0 $aEnvironmental economics.
700 1 $aOlmstead, Sheila M.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0715/2007014814.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0714/2007014814-d.html