SECTION ONE Introduction
1 What is Environmental Economics?
2 The Economy and the Environment
SECTION TWO Analytical Tools
3 Benefits and Costs, Supply and Demand
4 Markets, Externalities, and Public Goods
5 The Economics of Environmental Quality
SECTION THREE Environmental Analysis
6 Frameworks of Analysis
7 Benefit-Cost Analysis: Benefits
8 Benefit-Cost Analysis: Costs
SECTION FOUR Environmental Policy Analysis
9 Criteria for Evaluating Environmental Policies
10 Decentralized Policies: Liability Laws, Property Rights, Voluntary Action
11 Command-and-Control Strategies: The Case of Standards
12 Incentive-Based Strategies: Emission Charges and Subsidies
13 Incentive-Based Strategies: Market Trading Systems
SECTION FIVE Environmental Policy in the United States
14 Federal Water Pollution-Control Policy
15 Federal Air Pollution Control Policy
16 Federal Polity on Toxic and Hazardous Substances
17 State and Local Environmental Issues
SECTION SIX Global Environmental Issues
18 The Global Environment
19 International Environmental Agreements
20 Globalization
21 Economic Development and the Environment
APPENDIX Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in the Book NAME INDEX SUBJECT INDEX |