Economics for Environmental Studies : A Strategic Guide to Micro- and Macroeconomics
by Alfred Endres, Volker Radke
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2012
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| Authors: | Endres, Alfred |
| Other Persons: | Radke, Volker (contributor) |
| Publisher: |
Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer |
| Subject: | Umweltökonomik | Environmental economics | Mikroökonomik | Microeconomics | Makroökonomik | Macroeconomics | Umweltökonomie | Makroökonomie | Mikroökonomie |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [d-nb.info] ; Description [swbplus.bsz-bw.de] ; Description [deposit.dnb.de] |
| Extent: | Online-Ressource (IX, 186 p. 26 illus., 2 illus. in color, digital) |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Type of publication (narrower categories): | Lehrbuch |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record ""Economics for Environmental Studies ""; ""A Strategic Guide to Micro- and Macroeconomics ""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""1: Introduction""; ""References""; ""Part I: Economics: What Is It About and How Does It Relate to the Natural Environment?""; ""2: The Fundamental Problem""; ""2.1 Needs""; ""2.2 Goods""; ""2.2.1 Satisfying Human Needs""; ""2.2.2 Commodities and Services""; ""2.2.3 Excludability and Rivalry""; ""2.3 Production""; ""2.4 Scarcity""; ""References""; ""3: The Economic Approach""; ""3.1 Acting Economically""; ""3.2 Economic Agents""; ""3.3 The Circular Flow"" ""3.4 Positive and Normative Economic Analysis""""3.5 Economic Policy""; ""3.5.1 The Choice of Economic System""; ""3.5.2 Interventions in the Economic Process""; ""References""; ""4: Integration of the Natural Environment: Socially Undesirable Utilization of Natural Goods""; ""4.1 Introductory Remarks""; ""4.2 Natural Goods""; ""4.3 Production Based on Natural Resources""; ""4.4 The Circular Flow and the Natural Environment""; ""4.5 Normative Analysis: Efficiency, Justice, and the Natural Environment""; ""4.6 Economic Policy and Environmental Protection""; ""References"" ""5: Summary to Part I and Looking Ahead""""Part II: Microeconomics and the Natural Environment""; ""6: Fundamental Concepts of Microeconomics""; ""6.1 Objectives and Methods of Microeconomics""; ""6.2 The Consumer""; ""6.3 The Firm""; ""6.4 The Market""; ""6.5 Basic Issues in Welfare Economics""; ""6.5.1 The Concept of Social Optimality""; ""6.5.2 The Social Optimality of an Ideal Market Economy""; ""6.5.2.1 Socially Optimal Output""; ""6.5.2.2 Cost-Effective Inter-firm Allocation""; ""6.5.2.3 ``Benefit-EffectiveÂ?Â? Inter-consumer Allocation""; ""6.5.3 Market Failure""; ""References"" ""7: A Sketch of Environmental Microeconomics""""7.1 Internalizing Externalities""; ""7.2 Standard-Oriented Environmental Policy""; ""7.2.1 Introduction""; ""7.2.2 Cost-Effective Inter-firm Allocation of Aggregate Pollution Abatement""; ""7.2.3 Cost-Effective Design of Environmental Policy Instruments""; ""7.3 International Environmental Problems""; ""References""; ""8: Summary to Part II and Looking Ahead""; ""Part III: Macroeconomics and the Natural Environment""; ""9: Fundamental Concepts of Macroeconomics""; ""9.1 Objectives and Methods of Macroeconomics""; ""9.2 Economic Growth"" ""9.2.1 Driving Forces Behind Economic Growth""""9.2.2 Feasibility of Permanent Growth""; ""9.3 National Accounting""; ""9.3.1 Purposes of National Accounting""; ""9.3.2 Measuring National Product""; ""9.3.3 Measuring National Wealth""; ""References""; ""10: A Sketch of Environmental Macroeconomics""; ""10.1 Economic Growth and the Natural Environment""; ""10.1.1 Natural Limits to Growth""; ""10.1.2 Sustainable Development""; ""10.2 National Accounting and the Natural Environment""; ""10.2.1 Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting""; ""10.2.2 Accounting for Sustainability"" ""10.2.2.1 The Neoclassical Theory of Measuring Sustainable Development"" |
| ISBN: | 978-3-642-31193-2 ; 978-3-642-31192-5 |
| Other identifiers: | 10.1007/978-3-642-31193-2 [DOI] |
| Classification: | Volkswirtschaftliche Ressourcen, Umweltökonomie |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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