search for books and compare prices
Tables of Contents for Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures
vii
List of tables
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction: ethics, economists and the environment
1
12
PART 1 ETHICS, ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Valuing the environment
13
21
Economists befriend the earth
34
6
Economic valuation and ecological economics
40
15
The limits of cost-benefit analysis as a guide to environmental policy
55
14
PART 2 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Sustainable development
69
22
Capital theory and the measurement of sustainable development: an indicator of `weak' sustainability
91
5
Giles Atkinson
Measuring sustainable development: progress on indicators
96
17
Kirk Hamilton
Giles Atkinson
Economic growth and `sustainable consumption'
113
10
PART 3 APPLIED ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
Particulate matter and human health in the United Kingdom
123
23
Tom Crowards
Assessing the social rate of return from investment in temperate zone forestry
146
27
Global environmental value and the tropical forests: demonstration and capture
173
37
The economics of African wildlife utilization
210
21
Packaging waste and the polluter pays principle: a taxation solution
231
10
Kerry Turner
The social incidence of environmental costs and benefits
241
27
A social discount rate for the United Kingdom
268
18
David Ulph
Current economic costs of not using risk assessment in environmental policy at the European Community level
286
27
PART 4 GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
Competing paradigms for managing environmental change
313
10
The economics of global warming
323
14
The role of carbon taxes in adjusting to global warming
337
14
Index
351