PART ONE
INTRODUCTION: THE ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 1: Changing Perspectives on the Environment
1. Overview of Environmental Issues
2. Economic Approaches to the Environment
3. Principles of Ecological Economics
4. A Look Ahead
Chapter 2: Resources, Environment, and Economic Development
1. Overview of Economic Growth
2. Economic Growth in Recent Decades
3. Environmental Trends in Recent Decades
4. Optimists and Pessimists
5. Sustainable Development
PART TWO
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Chapter 3: The Theory of Environmental Externalities
1. The Theory of Externalities
2. Welfare Analysis of Externalities
3. Property Rights and the Environment
Appendix 3.1: Supply, Demand, and Welfare Analysis
Appendix 3.2: Externality Analysis: Advanced Material
Chapter 4: Common Property Resources and Public Goods
1. Common Property, Open Access, and Property Rights
2. The Environment as a Public Good
3. The Global Commons
Chapter 5: Resource Allocation Over Time
1. Allocation of Non-Renewable Resources
2. Hotelling's Rule and Time Discounting
Chapter 6: Valuing the Environment
1. Total Economic Value
2. Overview of Valuation Techniques
3. Revealed Preference Methods
4. Stated Preference Methods
Chapter 7: Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Overview of Cost-Benefit Analysis
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- Balancing the Present and Future: The Discount Rate
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- Valuing Human Life
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- Other Issues in Cost-Benefit Analysis
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- Cost-Benefit Analysis Example
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- Conclusion: The Role of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy Decisions
Appendix 7.1: Using Excel to Perform Present Value Calculations
Chapter 8: Pollution: Analysis and Policy
1. The Economics of Pollution Control
2. Policies for Pollution Control
3. The Scale of Pollution Impacts
4. Assessing Pollution Control Policies
5. Pollution Control Policies in Practice
PART THREE
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING
Chapter 9: Ecological Economics: Basic Concepts
- An Ecological Perspective
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- Natural Capital
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- Issues of Macroeconomic Scale
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- Long-Term Sustainability
Chapter 10: National Income and Environmental Accounting
1. Greening the National Income Accounts
2. Green GDP
3. Adjusted Net Saving
4. The Genuine Progress Indicator
5. The Human Development Index and the Better Life Index
6. Environmental Asset Accounts
7. The Future of Alternative Indicators
Appendix 10.1: Basic National Income Accounting
PART FOUR
ENERGY, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND GREENING THE ECONOMY
Chapter 11: Energy: The Great Transition
1. Energy and Economic Systems
2. Evaluation of Energy Sources
3. Energy Trends and Projections
4. Energy Supplies: Fossil Fuels
5. Renewable Energy Sources
6. The Economics of Alternative Energy Futures
7. Policies for the Great Energy Transition
Chapter 12: Global Climate Change: Science and Analysis
1. Causes and Consequences of Climate Change
2. Responses to Global Climate Change
3. Economic Analysis of Climate Change
Chapter 13: Global Climate Change: Policy Responses
1. Adaptation and Mitigation
2. Climate Change Mitigation: Economic Policy Options
3. Climate Change: The Technical Challenge
4. Climate Change Policy in Practice
5. Other Economic Proposals: Environment and Equity
6. Conclusion: Dimensions of Climate Change
Chapter 14: The Green Economy
1. The Green Economy: Introduction
2. The Relationship between the Economy and the Environment
3. Industrial Ecology
4. Does Protecting the Environment Harm the Economy? 5. Creating a Green Economy
PART FIVE
POPULATION, AGRICULTURE, AND RESOURCES
Chapter 15: Population and the Environment
1. The Dynamics of Population Growth
2. Predicting Future Population Growth
3. The Theory of Demographic Transition
4. Population Growth and Economic Growth
5. Ecological Perspectives on Population Growth
6. Population Policies for the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 16: Agriculture, Food and Environment
1. Feeding the World: Population and Food Supply
2. Trends in Global Food Production
3. Projections for the Future
4. Agriculture's Impact on the Environment
5. Sustainable Agriculture for the Future
Chapter 17: Resources: Scarcity and Abundance
1. The Supply of Non-Renewable Resources
2. Economic Theory of Non-Renewable Resource Use
3. Global Scarcity or Increasing Abundance?
4. Environmental Impacts of Mining
5. The Potential for Minerals Recycling
Chapter 18: Renewable Resource Use - Fisheries
1. Principles of Renewable Resource Management
2. Ecological and Economic Analyses of Fisheries
3. The Economics of Fisheries in Practice
4. Policies for Sustainable Fisheries Management
Chapter 19: Ecosystem Management - Forest Ecosystems
1. The Economics of Forest Management
2. Forest Loss and Biodiversity
3. Policies for Sustainable Forest Management
Chapter 20: Water Systems
1. Global Supply and Demand for Water
2. Addressing Water Shortages
3. Water Pricing
4. Water Rights, Water Markets, and Privatization
5. Water as Common Property Resource
PART SIX
ENVIRONMENT, TRADE, AND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 21: World Trade and the Environment
1. Environmental Impacts of Trade
2. Trade and Environment: Policy and Practice
3. Trade Agreements and the Environment
4. Strategies for Sustainable Trade
Chapter 22: Institutions for Sustainable Development
1. The Concept of Sustainable Development
2. The Economics of Sustainable Development
3. Reforming Global Institutions
4. New Goals and New Production Methods
5. Conclusion: Policies for Sustainable Development
