Environmental Economics Concepts Methods and Policies | Environment & Sustainability

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Environmental Economics explores the ways in which economic theory and its applications as practised and taught today must be modified to explicitly accommodate the goal of sustainability and the vital role played by environmental capital. Pivoting around the first and second laws of thermodynamics as well as the principles of ecological resilience this book is divided into five key parts which include extensive coverage of environmental microeconomics and macroeconomics. It drills down into issues and challenges including consumer demand; production and supply; market organisation; renewable and non-renewable resources; environmental valuation; macroeconomic stabilisation and international…