Economics and the Environment - 9780367718008

Taylor & Francis

I: SOCIAL COORDINATION, THE ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT\n\n1. Introduction\n\n2. Scarcity and systems of social coordination\n\n3. Social coordination in market and planned economies\n\n4. The economy and the environment\n\nII: LIMITATIONS OF MARKET SIGNALLING AND INCENTIVES\n\n5. High costs of markets\n\n6. Non-excludable goods\n\n7. Common pool resources\n\n8. Limitations of government signalling and incentives\n\nIII: DECISION-MAKING TOOLS \n\n9. Decision making over time\n\n10. Cost-benefit analysis of environmental changes\n\n11. Valuing the environment\n\n12. Stated preference valuation techniques\n\n13. Monitoring changes in economic-environmental systems (available online)\n\nIV: LOCALISED ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS \n\n14. The economics of pollution control: two parties\n\n15. The economics of pollution control: many parties\n\n16. Social coordination in waste disposal and recycling (available online)\n > Ian Wills is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Mona.