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Valuing the Environment
Rudiger . Ed(S): Pethig
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hardcover. Focuses on conceptual issues of environmental valuation involving the stock-flow dynamics of pollution, environmental services as productive factors, the appropriateness of the expected utility approach for unlikely high-damage risks, the concept of option value, and the valuation of environmental health effects. Editor(s): Pethig, Rudiger. Series: Environment, Science and Society. Num Pages: 348 pages, 12 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: KCN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 698.
During the last decades, environmental economics as a science has been very successful in improving our understanding of environment-economy interdepen dence. Using conventional economic methodology, environmental aspects have been explicitly incorporated into economic models making use of the concept of externality. This concept was already familiar to economists long before evidence of severe environmental deterioration found its way into the headlines and peo ple's awareness. But before that time, external effects were not considered as being empirically very relevant, they seemed to be -like the example of the bees and the fruit trees - somewhat bucolic in nature. All that ... Read more
During the last decades, environmental economics as a science has been very successful in improving our understanding of environment-economy interdepen dence. Using conventional economic methodology, environmental aspects have been explicitly incorporated into economic models making use of the concept of externality. This concept was already familiar to economists long before evidence of severe environmental deterioration found its way into the headlines and peo ple's awareness. But before that time, external effects were not considered as being empirically very relevant, they seemed to be -like the example of the bees and the fruit trees - somewhat bucolic in nature. All that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
Series
Environment, Science and Society
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792326021
SKU
V9780792326021
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99-15
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