Product Description

For undergratuate and postgraduate courses in  Environmental Economics in Departments of Economics, Business, Geography and Management.
Ideally suited for one semester modules. This innovative new text from highly respected and esteemed authors has one main aim to bring this subject alive for non-specialist students through highly interactive applications and an accessible yet sufficiently rigorous writing style. Bang up-to-date with coverage of the latest developements in this field, this text covers global developments whilst maintaning a strong EU flavour.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #550203 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 372 pages

From the Back Cover

Environmental Issues and Policies

investigates the theoretical and practical considerations facing policy makers over a range of contemporary environmental problems. Although an economic perspective underpins the main theoretical approach of the book, it broadly adopts both an interdisciplinary and applied approach. The text is ideal for modules involving the environment in a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The first four chapters discuss a number of concepts, principles and techniques that are taken further in the more issue-based chapters five to thirteen.

Key features of this new text include:

• Up-to-date case study and question material

– 3 to 4 case studies involving issues of current concern are presented in each chapter, and questions are used to prompt debate with outline answers and responses provided at the end of the book.

Topic by topic approach - a well structured approach focuses on the key environmental topics being currently debated, such as sustainable development, environmental pollution, climate change, natural resource and population constraints, transport, housing, the rural economy and the particular problems facing the developing economies.

Self-learner supports – to help readers from a variety of subject backgrounds, boxes in each chapter are used to review key concepts and to take the analysis further. All questions in the text are supported by outline answers and a detailed list of up-to-date references and further reading are presented at the end of each chapter.

Companion Website – contains a bank of interactive questions with solutions, as well as further up-to-date factual and case study materials.

Stephen Ison lectures on transport studies at Loughborough University and has taught on a broad range of courses across the area of environmental issues and policies at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is the author of a wide variety of books and articles in the fields of transport, the environment and public policy.

Stephen Peake lectures on environmental technology in the Department of Design and Innovation at the Open University. As a former official in the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the International Energy Agency, he has practical experience in shaping environmental policy at an international level. He is the author of several books and papers in the fields of energy, transportation and climate change.

Stuart Wall is Subject Leader in Business and Economics in the Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Polytechnic University. He has many years of experience in teaching environmental modules to a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and is a well-known author of articles and books involving environmental issues and policies. He has also acted as a consultant to the OECD in a range of policy making fields.

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Customer Reviews

Great book on Environmental Economics
This is a great book although I'm biased as it was written by my university lecturer. Despite that I would have found it useful to know the exact contents of the book before buying it. I've listed the chapters below with a few notes on what's included. Each chapter includes interesting real life case studies that really help you understand the theory. There is also a description of key terms, advice on further reading and suggested websites.

I have found the book accessible and not difficult to understand like some undergraduate economics text books. It provides a good basis for any course in Environmental Economics and comes highly recommended. Hope you find this helpful.

1) Approaching environmental issues: Economic considerations, ethical considerations, political and legal considerations

2) Valuing the environment: Total economic value, market prices and value, market failure, cost-benefit analysis, the value of environmental risks to life and health, valuing environmental disasters, environmental impact assessment, environmental accounting

3) Setting the targets: Marginal analysis and target setting, externalities and target setting, public goods and target setting, common property resources, uncertainty and target setting, health issues and target setting, political/legal considerations and target setting, economic welfare and target setting

4) Achieving the targets - policy instruments: Bargaining and negotiation, environmental taxes, tradable permits, regulations and standards

5) Sustainable development: What is meant by sustainable development, 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development, key conditions for sustainable development, globalisation and sustainable development, sustainable development open economies and trade, World Summit on Sustainable Development

6) Pollution and the environment: Defining pollution, types of pollutants, water pollution, air pollution, land-based pollution, global and transboundary pollution policies

7) Climate change and the environment: The scientific basis of climate change, predicting future climate change, policy responses to climate change, the politics of global climate change, integrated assessment modelling

8) Natural resources, population and the environment: Agricultural ecosystems, forest ecosystems, freshwater ecosystems, energy and mineral resources

9) Transport and the environmental: Changes in the mode of transport, environmental impacts of transport growth, transport policies and policy instruments, market-based policy instruments, non-market-based policy instruments, the environmental effects of aviation

10) Housing, households and the environment: Housing energy conservation and environmental pollution, demographic factors and housing demands, building regulations and new housing construction, housing location and environmental impacts, flooding and floodplain developments

11) Rural economy and the environment: Agricultural policies and the environment, organic faming and biodiversity, genetically modified crops, farming and health issues, rural development policy

12) Developing economies and the environment: Who are the developing economies, economic development and environmental impacts, industrialisation and environmental impacts, urbanisation and environmental impacts, population issues and environmental impacts, sustainability and the developing economies, environmental policy and developing economies

13) Practical environmental policy making in the EU: EU legislative process, environmental policy in the EU