New Directions in the Economic Theory of the Environment

Klappentext Provides broad surveys of the developments in the economics of the environment and reports on the developing set of environmental problems. Zusammenfassung First published in 1997! this volume addressed the growing preoccupation of scientists at the time had in environmental phenomena! such as global warming! ozone layer depletion! acid rains! fresh water and ocean pollution! desertification! deforestation and the loss of bio-diversity. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Theoretical frontiers of environmental economics Carlo Carraro and Domenico Siniscalco; 2. Growth with natural and environmental resources Andrea Beltratti; 3. Environmental policy and technological innovation David Ulph; 4. Environmental policy, distortionary labour taxation and employment: pollution taxes and the double-dividend A. Lans Bovenberg; 5. International coordination of environmental taxes Michael Hoel; 6. Environmental policy and international trade: a survey of recent economic analysis Alistair Ulph; 7. Environmental regulation and international capital allocation Michael Rauscher; 8. Towards a theory of international cooperationScott Barrett; 9. Group formation in games without spillovers Hideo Konishi, Michel le Breton and Shlomo Weber; 10. Non-cooperative models of coalition formation in games with spillovers Francis Bloch; Index.

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• Authors: Carlo Carraro, Carlo (Universit... Degli Studi DI Venezi Carraro, Carlo (Universita Degli Studi DI Venezia) Carraro, Carlo Siniscalco Carraro
• Assisted by: Carraro Carlo (Editor), Carlo Carraro (Editor), Carraro Carlo (Editor), Domenico Siniscalco (Editor), Siniscalco Domenico (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.09.2009
• EAN: 9780521118910
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11891-0
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Economic theory & philosophy, Economic theory and philosophy