Environmental economics / edited by Ulaganathan Sankar. - Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. - viii, 469 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Oxford in India readings. Oxford India paperbacks .

Originally published: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. The problem of social cost ; 2. Externalities: Formal analysis; Depletion of Non-Renewable Resources ; 3. The economics of exhaustible resources ; 4. Hotelling's The economics of exhaustible resources fifty years later; Degradation of Commons ; 5. The tragedy of the commons ; 6. An institutional approach to the study of self-organization and self-governance in CPR situations; Valuation Techniques ; 7. Measuring the benefits and costs of pollution control ; 8. Contingent valuation and economics; Sustainability ; 9. Sustainability: An economist's perspective ; 10. Environmental accounting: An operational perspective ; 11. To slow or not to slow: The economics of the Greenhouse Effect; Development and the Environment ; 12. Poverty and the environmental resource base ; 13. Environmental policy


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