Economy and Environment: A Theoretical Essay on the Interdependence of Economic and Environmental Systems

ISBN-13: 9780521340816 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 196 str.

Charles Perrings

Opis

Studying the interaction of the economy with its environment, this essay shows the 'market solution' to environmental problems generates increasing uncertainty.

Recenzje

"The journal is attractively produced and contains both applied and theoretical papers and a policy forum section in each of the first year's issues....the journal deserves a place on the library shelves of universities and government ministries of planning and resources." Neil Adger, Nature

Spis treści

Preface; Notation guide; 1. Introduction; Part I. The Physical Economy-Environment System: 2. Closed physical systems: a model; 3. Structure and time in the physical system; 4. Technological change and the environmental constraints to physical growth; Part II. The Economic System: 5. The price system; 6. Prices, property, and the environment; 7. Economic conflict and environmental change; Part III. Environmental Strategies in an Evolutionary Economy-Environment System: 8. Time, uncertainty, and external effects; 9. The market solution; 10. The stationary state; 11. Conclusions; References; Index.