Economics of the environment: Theory and policy

Book · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6516926

Siebert, H

This book interprets nature and the environment as a scarce resource. It offers a theoretical study of the allocation problem and describes different policy approaches to the environmental problems and describes different policy approaches to the environmental problem. The entire spectrum of the allocation issue is studied: the use of the environment in a static context, international and trade aspects of environmental allocation, regional dimensions, and environmental use over time and under uncertainty. The book incorporates a variety of economic approaches, including neoclassical analysis, the public-goods approach, benefit cost, property-rights ideas, economic policy and public-finance reasoning, international trade theory, regional science, and optimization theory including control theory and risk analysis. The different aspects of environmental allocation are studied in the context of a model that is used throughout the book. This book has chapters on the international and the regional aspects of environmental allocation, on environmental use over time, i.e. on the accumulation of pollutant, and on environmental risks.

• OSTI ID: 6516926
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ALLOCATIONS
CONTROL THEORY
COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
DATA COVARIANCES
ECONOMIC POLICY
ECONOMICS
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
FINANCING
GLOBAL ASPECTS
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
OPTIMIZATION
POLLUTANTS
PROPERTY RIGHTS
PUBLIC POLICY
RESOURCE DEPLETION
RISK ASSESSMENT
SPACE DEPENDENCE
TIME DEPENDENCE
TRADE