Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy

Essays from the Sixth RFF Forum

Henry Jarrett (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

193 Seiten

2011
Resources for the Future Press (RFF Press) (Verlag)
978-1-61726-027-8 (ISBN)

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Twelve scholars examine some leading problems in environmental quality, analyze present situations and future prospects, and suggest what might be done about them. First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Henry Jarrett

Chapter 1 Resources Development and the Environment; The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth, Kenneth E. Boulding; Pressures of Growth Upon Environment, Harold J. Barnett; Chapter 2 Environment and Human Health; Promises and Hazards of Man’S Adaptrability, René Dubos; Mental Health in an Urban Society, Leonard J. Duhl; Chapter 3 Beyond the Market Mechanism; Side Effects of Resource Use, Ralph Turvey; Some Problems of Criteria and Acquiring Information, Roland N. McKean; Chapter 4 Economic Research in Problems of Environment; Research Goals and Progress Toward Them, Allen V. Kneese; Welfare Economics and the Environment, M. Mason Gaffney; Chapter 5 Public Attitudes on Environmental Quality; Formation and Role of Public Attitudes, Gilbert F. White; Assumptions Behind the Public Attitudes, David Lowenthal; Chapter 6 Needed Improvements in Policies and Institutions; New Tasks for all Levels of Government, Norton E. Long; Some New Machinery to Help do the Job, Jacob H. Beuscher;

Reihe/Serie	RFF Environmental and Resource Economics Set
Verlagsort	Washington
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	294 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-61726-027-4 / 1617260274
ISBN-13	978-1-61726-027-8 / 9781617260278
Zustand	Neuware