Introduction -- Measuring urban environmental quality -- The urban environmental Kuznets curve -- Income growth and the urban environment: -- The role of the market -- Income growth and greener governance -- Population growth and the urban environment -- Spatial growth: the environmental cost of...

"Economics and the Environment 6th Edition, provides a rigorous and comprehensive presentation of the "standard analysis," including the property-rights basis of environmental problems, efficient pollution control, benefit-estimation procedures, and incentive based procedures. This book examines...

Sect. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 1. What is Environmental Economics? -- Ch. 2. The Economy and the Environment -- Sect. 2. Analytical Tools -- Ch. 3. Benefits and Costs, Supply and Demand -- Ch. 4. Economic Efficiency and Markets -- Ch. 5. The Economics of Environmental Quality -- Sect. 3....