Environmental Quality Analysis: Theory & Method in the Social Sciences / Edition 1

by Allen V. Kneese, Blair T. Bower

Overview

This book brings together state-of-the-art papers describing comprehensive approaches to residuals management and emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary solutions to complex environmental problems. Originally published in 1972

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617260261
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/19/2011
Series:	RFF Environmental and Resource Economics Set , #4
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	421
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kneese, Allen V.; Bower, Blair T.

Table of Contents

Introduction I. THE ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 1. Economic Growth and the Natural Environment2. A Materials-Process-Product Model 3. Observations on the Economics of Irreplaceable Assets II. DEVELOPING MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS 4. A Quantitative Framework for Residuals Management Decisions 5. Agricultural Pesticides: Productivity and Externalities 6. Air Pollution Dam age: Some Difficulties in Estimating the Value of Abatement 7. The Distribution of Environmental Quality III. DESIGNIN G POLITICAL AND LEGAL INSTITUTIONS 8. Environmental Quality as a Problem of Social Choice 9. Legal Strategies Applicable to Environmental Quality Management Decisions 10. Power Structure Studies and Environmental Quality Management: The Study of Powerful Urban Problem-Oriented Leaders in North-eastern Megalopolis