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- catalog abstract "The book begins with an introduction which gives an insight into the development of David Pearce's career in environmental economics. It is also an accessible guide to the role that environmental economics can play in policymaking and a forceful defence of his own position vis-a-vis different schools of thought. The essays cover four broad themes: ethics and ecological economics, sustainable development, applied environmental economics and global environmental change. Specific subject areas include environmental valuation, forestry, wildlife conservation, risk assessment, global warming and the role of carbon taxes.".
- catalog contributor b11115018.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The book begins with an introduction which gives an insight into the development of David Pearce's career in environmental economics. It is also an accessible guide to the role that environmental economics can play in policymaking and a forceful defence of his own position vis-a-vis different schools of thought. The essays cover four broad themes: ethics and ecological economics, sustainable development, applied environmental economics and global environmental change. Specific subject areas include environmental valuation, forestry, wildlife conservation, risk assessment, global warming and the role of carbon taxes.".
- catalog description "Valuing the environment -- Economists befriend the Earth -- Economic valuation and ecological economics -- The limits of cost-benefit analysis as a guide to environmental policy -- Sustainable development -- Capital theory and the measurement of sustainable development: an indicator of 'weak' sustainability (with Giles Atkinson) -- Measuring sustainable development: progress on indicators (with Kirk Hamilton and Giles Atkinson) -- Economic growth and 'sustainable consumption' -- Patriculate matter and human health in the United Kingdom (with Tom Crowards) -- Assessing the social rate of return from investment in temperate zone forestry -- Global environmental value and the tropical forests: demonstration and capture -- The economics of African wildlife utilization -- Packaging waste and the polluter pays principle: a taxation solution (with Kerry Turner) -- The social incidence of environmental costs and benefits -- A social discount rate for the United Kingdom (with David Ulph) -- Current economic costs of not using risk assessment in environmental policy at the European community level -- Competing paradigms for managing environmental change -- The economics of global warming -- The role of carbon taxes in adjusting to global warming.".
- catalog extent "xii, 363 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Economics and environment.".
- catalog identifier "1852787724".
- catalog isFormatOf "Economics and environment.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar,".
- catalog relation "Economics and environment.".
- catalog subject "333.7 21".
- catalog subject "Environmental economics.".
- catalog subject "HC79.E5 P369 1998".
- catalog subject "Sustainable development.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Valuing the environment -- Economists befriend the Earth -- Economic valuation and ecological economics -- The limits of cost-benefit analysis as a guide to environmental policy -- Sustainable development -- Capital theory and the measurement of sustainable development: an indicator of 'weak' sustainability (with Giles Atkinson) -- Measuring sustainable development: progress on indicators (with Kirk Hamilton and Giles Atkinson) -- Economic growth and 'sustainable consumption' -- Patriculate matter and human health in the United Kingdom (with Tom Crowards) -- Assessing the social rate of return from investment in temperate zone forestry -- Global environmental value and the tropical forests: demonstration and capture -- The economics of African wildlife utilization -- Packaging waste and the polluter pays principle: a taxation solution (with Kerry Turner) -- The social incidence of environmental costs and benefits -- A social discount rate for the United Kingdom (with David Ulph) -- Current economic costs of not using risk assessment in environmental policy at the European community level -- Competing paradigms for managing environmental change -- The economics of global warming -- The role of carbon taxes in adjusting to global warming.".
- catalog title "Economics and environment : essays on ecological economics and sustainable development / David Pearce.".
- catalog type "Essays. lcgft".
- catalog type "text".