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Persistent Pollutants - Economics and Policy

English · Hardback

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List of contents

1. Persistent Pollutants: A Challenge for the Nineties.- 2. Sources of Persistent Micropollutants: Analysis with Dynamic Materials Balances.- 3. Long-Term Environmental and Health Effects of PMPs.- 4. Benefits of PMP Control: Ecosystems.- 5. Approaches to the Economic Evaluation of Environmental Effects of PMPs: A General Introduction.- 6. Valuation of Wetland Ecosystems.- 7. Health Benefits of PMP Control: The Case of Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Skin Damage Risks.- 8. Ecotoxicology, Environmental Economists and the Valuation of Adverse Environmental Effects.- 9. Cost-Benefit Analysis and PMPs.- 10. Problems of Irreversibility in the Control of PMPs.- 11. Integrated Environmental Economic Systems.- 12. Environmental Regulation and Policy.- 13. Economic Effects of Emission Reduction: Impacts on Industry.- 14. Economic Impacts on Controlling PMPs: A Comment.- 15. Long-Term Tradeoffs for Sustainability Policies in the Area of Environmental Toxicology: An Economic Analysis of a NIMBY Syndrome.- 16. A Comment on Nijkamp.- 17. Uncertainty in the Prediction of Attitudes Towards Environmental Control.- 18. Economic Instruments for Controlling PMPs.- 19. Economic Instruments for Controlling PMPs: A Comment.- 20. Liability Issues in Pollution Control.- 21. The Use of Liability-Rule Systems to Regulate the Environment: The Case for 'Preventive Policy'.- 22. Some Ecotoxicological Problems Associated with the Regulation of PMPs.- 23. Environmental Decision-Making: The Ecotoxicological Contribution.- List of Contributors.

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Assisted by B Opschoor (Editor), J B Opschoor (Editor), J. B. Opschoor (Editor), J.B. Opschoor (Editor), D. W. Pearce (Editor), D.W. Pearce (Editor), W Pearce (Editor), W Pearce (Editor)
Publisher Springer Netherlands
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 25.06.2009
 
EAN 9780792311683
ISBN 978-0-7923-1168-3
No. of pages 225
Weight 508 g
Illustrations VIII, 225 p.
Series Economy & Environment
Economy & Environment
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches

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