International Environmental Economics: A Survey of the Issues - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198297661 ISBN 13: 9780198297666

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2001

Synopsis

Environmental economics has traditionally been conducted in a closed economy mode. Most textbooks on the subject still reflect this restriction; international aspects of environmental problems are often not covered at all or dealt with as an afterthought. In a world in which many environmental pollutants spill over national borders, and national economies have become increasingly integrated, this state of affairs is clearly unsatisfactory: rational environmental policies undertaken in a globalizing world need to take the international economic and environmental relationships into consideration.

This perception has given rise to much literature employing an open economy approach to analysing environmental problems and policies. After a decade of intensive research, the time has come to take stock of the state-of-the-art knowledge. It is the objective of this volume to provide a review which will be of interest to scholars and graduate students of economics and political science who wish to familiarize themselves with the main issues and actors in the field of international environmental economics. This collection of non-technical, issue-oriented, and comprehensive surveys is written by leading specialists in international and environmental economics.

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About the Author

Günther G. Schulze is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Freiburg, Germany; Heinrich W. Ursprung is Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Economics and Statistics at the University of Konstanz, Germany

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198297661
• ISBN 13: 9780198297666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 316
• Editor: Schulze Günther G., Ursprung Heinrich W.