Environmental Economics
Theory and Policy

This intermediate-level undergraduate textbook in environmental economics builds on the microeconomics courses students take in their first year.

Alfred Endres (Author), Iain L. Fraser (Translated by)

9780521173926, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 6 December 2010

400 pages
25.5 x 17.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.69 kg

'In this textbook Alfred Endres uses microeconomic methods to investigate environmental policy and pollution. It is a brilliantly written book, in which the latest theoretical and empirical research is considered. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in these environmental questions.' Friedrich Schneider, Johannes Kepler University of Linz

This intermediate-level undergraduate textbook in environmental economics builds on the microeconomics courses students take in their first year. It intentionally does not survey the whole field or present every possible topic. Instead, there is a clear focus on the theory of environmental policy and its practical applications. Most of the applied parts of the book deal with the economics of environmental policy in the European Union and in the United States. The book combines basic environmental economic analysis, such as the internalization of externalities, with recent developments in this field, including induced technical change and coalition theory. Moreover, topics from daily policy debates such as global warming are put into economic perspective. This is done in an intelligible form for advanced undergraduate students of economics, business administration and related fields. Each part of the book contains a set of exercises and suggested solutions.

Part I. The Internalization of Externalities as Central Theme of Environmental Policy: 1. Foundations
2. Implications of making the concept of internalization programmatic in environment policy
Part II. Strategies for Internalizing Externalities: 3. Negotiations
4. Environmental liability law
5. Pigovian tax
Part III. Standard-Oriented Instruments of Environmental Policy: 6. Introduction
7. Types of environmental policy instruments
8. Assessment of environmental policy instruments
Part IV. Extensions of the Basic Environmental-Economics Model: 9. Environmental policy with pollutant interactions
10. Environmental policy with imperfect competition
11. Internalization negotiations with asymmetrical information
12. The 'double dividend' of the green tax
13. The induction of advances in environmental technology through environment policy
Part V. International Environmental Problems: 14. Introduction
15. International environmental agreements
16. Instruments of international environmental policy - the example of the EU's emissions trading
17. Epilogue: the vision of a federal US emission trading system
Part VI. Natural Resources and Sustainable Development: 18. Resource exhaustion - the end of mankind?
19. Renewable resources
20. Sustainable development
Epilogue: three types of externality and the increasing difficulty of internalizing them.

Subject Areas: Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], Corporate governance [KJR], Political economy [KCP], Environmental economics [KCN]