03212cam a22003858i 4500999001500000001000900015003000400024005001700028008004100045010001700086020003100103020002800134040002400162042000800186050002000194082002300214100003000237245006600267250002000333263000900353264004100362300001300403336002600416337002800442338002700470504005100497520177100548650008402319650008002403700003102483906004502514942001302559952012702572952012702699  c4530d453021138151OSt20250911083027.0190816s2021    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a  2019019555  a9781260575491q(hardcover)  a1260243060q(hardcover)  aKyUbengeKyULcDLC  apcc00aHC 7b.F54 202100aHC 7 .F54 20212231 aField, Barry C.,eauthor.10aEnvironmental economics :ban introduction /cField, Barry C.  aEighth edition.  a1906 1aNew York, NY :bMcGraw-Hill,c[2021]  apages cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  a"When our descendants look back at the last part of the 20th century, and now at the beginning of the 21st, we want them to be able to say: "That's when they began to take the degradation of the natural environment, with its threats to human life and the life of the planet, seriously." Furthermore, we would like them to be able to see that around this time we took serious steps to halt and reverse this process. This book is an introduction to environmental econom-ics, one way of approaching the steps that need to be taken. It's about the way human decisions affect the quality of the environment, how human values and institutions shape our demands for improvement in the quality of that envi-ronment, and, most especially, about how to design effective public policies to bring about these improvements. Problems of environmental quality are not something new; in fact, history is filled with bleak examples of environ-mental degradation, from deforestation by ancient peoples to mountains of horse manure in urban areas in the days before automobiles. But today's world is different. For one thing, many people in economically developed countries, having reached high levels of material well-being, are beginning to ask questions: What good is great material wealth if it comes at the cost of large-scale disruptions of the ecosystem by which we are nourished? More fundamental, perhaps, is the fact that with contemporary economic, demographic, and technological developments around the world, the associated environmental repercussions are becoming much more widespread and lethal. What once were localized environmental impacts, easily rectified, have now become widespread effects that may very well turn out to be irreversible"--cProvided by publisher. 0aEnvironmental economics.2Environmental StudyxSchool of Business and Education 0aEconomic developmentxSchool of Business and Education2Environmental Study1 aField, Martha K.,eauthor.  a7bcbccorignewd1eecipf20gy-gencatlg  2lcccLLB  00102lcc40708NFICaKyUCLbKyUCLcGENd2021-05-07epurchaseoHC 7 .F54 2021pKYU/2021/8212r2026-03-31w2021-05-07yLLB  00102lcc40708NFICaKyUCLbKyUCLcGENd2021-05-07epurchaseoHC 7 .F54 2021pKYU/2021/8211r2021-05-07w2021-05-07yLLB