Handbook of environmental economics: volume 1, Environmental degradation and institutional responses

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Title: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, Environmental degradation and institutional responses

Other titles: Environmental degradation and institutional responses

Contains: Cover; Contents of Volume 1; Introduction to the Series; Contents of the Handbook; Dedication; Preface to the Handbook; Perspectives on Environmental Economics; Chapter 1. Geophysical and Geochemical Aspects of Environmental Degradation; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. The environmental system; 3. Air quality and air pollution; 4. Depletion of the ozone layer; 5. Water pollution and water management; 6. Acidification of fresh waters and soils; 7. Climate change and global warming; 8. Environmental stresses and sustainability; References; Chapter 2. Ecosystem Dynamics; Abstract
Keywords1. Introduction; 2. The nature of communities and ecosystems; 3. Terrestrial ecosystem patterns; 4. Ecosystem assembly; 5. Ecosystems as self-organizing systems; 6. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and relations to ecosystem services; 7. Linkages to global biogeochemical cycling: The global carbon cycle; 8. The evolution of interactions and ecosystems, and the maintenance of ecosystem services: From Darwin to Gaia; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 3. Property Rights, Public Goods and the Environment; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. Taxonomy of property rights
3. Scope and limitations of private property4. Publicness and the need for collective rights; 5. Outcomes under decentralized decision making; 6. The Coase theorem and limitations; 7. Methods and rules for managing collective property rights; 8. Conclusions; References; Chapter 4. Economics of Common Property Management Regimes; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. Simple models of non-cooperative behavior and some implications for cooperative behavior; 3. Impediments to the design and implementation of efficient common property management systems; 4. Conclusions; Acknowledgements
Appendix. The endogeneity problem in collective action studiesReferences; Chapter 5. Population, Poverty, and the Natural Environment; Abstract; Keywords; Prologue; 1. Plan of the chapter; 2. Framing links between population, resources, and welfare; 3. Why the neglect?; 4. Why the neglect is wrong; 5. Population, poverty, and natural resources: Local interactions; 6. Education and birth control; 7. The household and gender relations; 8. Motives for procreation; 9. Reproductive and environmental externalities; 10. Institutional reforms and policies; Acknowledgements
Appendix. The village commons and household sizeReferences; Chapter 6. The Theory of Pollution Policy; Abstract; Keywords; Introduction; 1. A simple model with a Pigouvian tax; 2. The effiuent-generating process; 3. Economic reasons for excess effiuent; 4. The damage function; 5. The objective function; 6. Alternative regulatory instruments; 7. Imperfect information; 8. Non-regulatory strategies; 9. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 7. Mechanism Design for the Environment; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. The model; 3. Complete information; 4. Incomplete information
Acknowledgements

Contributor: Mäler, Karl-Göran [Other]; Vincent, Jeffrey R. [Other]

imprint: Amsterdam; London: Elsevier, 2003

Extent: Online Ressource (xxv, 516 pages, 29 pages)

Language: English

ISBN: 9780444500632; 0444500634

Keywords: Umweltökonomie > Natürliche Ressourcen > Umweltbelastung > Umweltpolitik > Klimaänderung

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Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record

Description: The Handbook of Environmental Economics focuses on the economics of environmental externalities and environmental public goods. Volume I examines environmental degradation and policy responses from a microeconomic, institutional standpoint. Its perspective is dynamic, including a consideration of the dynamics of natural systems, and global, with attention paid to issues in both rich and poor nations. In addition to chapters on well-established topics such as the theory and practice of pollution regulation, it includes chapters on new areas of environmental economics research related to common property management regimes; population and poverty; mechanism design; political economy of regulation; experimental evaluations of policy instruments; and technological change

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