书目名称 | Valuing the Environment: Methodological and Measurement Issues | 编辑 | Rüdiger Pethig | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Environment, Science and Society | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | During the last decades, environmental economics as a science has been very successful in improving our understanding of environment-economy interdepen dence. Using conventional economic methodology, environmental aspects have been explicitly incorporated into economic models making use of the concept of externality. This concept was already familiar to economists long before evidence of severe environmental deterioration found its way into the headlines and peo ple‘s awareness. But before that time, external effects were not considered as being empirically very relevant, they seemed to be -like the example of the bees and the fruit trees - somewhat bucolic in nature. All that changed dramatically when it was no longer possible (or easy) to ignore the large-scale environmental disruption with its negative feedback on consumers and producers caused by growing pollution and excessive use of environmental resources. In diagnosing the discrepancy between private and social cost as the cause of the problem, the externality paradigm proved very useful. The correct diagnosis implies the straightforward cure to internalise all external cost, namely the damage cost of pollution. But it is | 出版日期 | Book 1994 | 关键词 | environment; production; research; sustainable development | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8317-6 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-4345-0 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-015-8317-6Series ISSN 1383-7028 | issn_series | 1383-7028 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1994 |
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