ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
"Environmental Economics and Ecosystem Services provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to environmental economics, using ecosystem services as the underlying framework. Assuming no prior knowledge of economics, and using a conversational writing style, the focus is on exploring society...
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| Main Author | |
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
[S.l.] :
ROUTLEDGE,
2025.
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| Series | Textbooks in environmental agriculture and economics.
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| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781040271025 1040271022 1003308228 9781003308225 9781040271063 1040271065 1032311304 9781032311302 9781032311364 1032311363 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the book, ecosystem services and the sustainable development goals
- Climate science and international climate agreements
- Economic fundamentals, ecosystem services and value
- Estimating the benefits of environmental assets and ecosystem services
- Consumption
- Human population growth
- Sustainable economic development
- Why are environmental assets so difficult to manage?
- Bad incentives, market failures and property rights problems
- Collective action
- Governments messing with prices and agricultural subsidies
- Energy, energy subsidies and economic planning gone wild
- Social institutions for better environmental collective action
- The economics of pollution control
- Green pricing : theory and practice of taxes on measured pollution
- Green pricing : carbon taxes, green product taxes and green tax reform
- Green markets : non-carbon pollution trading
- Green markets : international climate policy and carbon markets
- Recap, conclusions and key gaps.