Environmental Quality Analysis - Theory & Method in the Social Sciences

Informationen zum Autor Kneese, Allen V.; Bower, Blair T. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Allen V. Kneese, Blair T. Bower, Blair T. Bower, Bower Blair T., Allen V. Kneese, Allen V. (Resources for the Future Resourc Kneese, Allen V. (Resources for the Future) Bower Kneese, Allen V. Bower Kneese, Kneese Allen V.
• Assisted by: Blair T. Bower (Editor), Allen V. Kneese (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.01.2011
• EAN: 9781617260261
• ISBN: 978-1-61726-026-1
• No. of pages: 421
• Series: Rff Library Collection: Enviro; RFF Environmental and Resource Economics Set; RFF Environmental and Resource Economics Set
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmentalist thought and ideology