Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy: Essays from the Sixth RFF Forum

ISBN-13: 9781617260278 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 193 str.

Henry Jarrett

Opis

'The Resources for the Future Library Collection' brings back landmark books published by Resources for the Future throughout its nearly 60-year history as the pre-eminent research institution devoted exclusively to environmental issues.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Resources Development and the Environment; The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth, Kenneth E. Boulding; Pressures of Growth Upon Environment, Harold J. Barnett; Chapter 2 Environment and Human Health; Promises and Hazards of Man’S Adaptrability, René Dubos; Mental Health in an Urban Society, Leonard J. Duhl; Chapter 3 Beyond the Market Mechanism; Side Effects of Resource Use, Ralph Turvey; Some Problems of Criteria and Acquiring Information, Roland N. McKean; Chapter 4 Economic Research in Problems of Environment; Research Goals and Progress Toward Them, Allen V. Kneese; Welfare Economics and the Environment, M. Mason Gaffney; Chapter 5 Public Attitudes on Environmental Quality; Formation and Role of Public Attitudes, Gilbert F. White; Assumptions Behind the Public Attitudes, David Lowenthal; Chapter 6 Needed Improvements in Policies and Institutions; New Tasks for all Levels of Government, Norton E. Long; Some New Machinery to Help do the Job, Jacob H. Beuscher;

O autorze

Henry Jarrett