登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
The RFF Reader in Environmental and Resource Policy
Resources for the Future
出版Resources for the Future, 2006
主題Law / InternationalNature / EcologyPolitical Science / GeneralPolitical Science / Public Policy / Economic PolicyScience / Environmental ScienceTechnology & Engineering / Environmental / GeneralTechnology & Engineering / Industrial Design / General
ISBN19331151659781933115160
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bKZLGq5reMcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBookSAMPLE
註釋Many articles in the Reader were originally published in RFF's quarterly magazine, Resources. Wally Oates has supplemented that with material drawn from other RFF works, including issue briefs and special reports. The readings provide concise, insightful background and perspectives on a broad range of environmental issues including benefit-cost analysis, environmental regulation, hazardous and toxic waste, environmental equity, and the environmental challenges in developing nations and transitional economies. Natural-resource topics include resource management, biodiversity, and sustainable agriculture. The articles address many of today's most difficult public policy questions, such as environmental policy and economic growth, and 'When is a Life Too Costly to Save?' New to the second edition is an expanded set of readings on global climate change and sustainability, plus cutting-edge policy applications on topics like the environment and public health and the growing problem of antibiotic and pesticide resistance. For general readers, the RFF Reader has been an accessible, nontechnical, authoritative introduction to key issues in environmental and natural resources policy. It has been especially effective in demonstrating the contribution that economics and other social science research can make toward improving public debate and decisionmaking. Organized to follow the contents of popular textbooks in environmental economics and politics, it has also found wide use in beginning environmental policy courses.