Environmental economics : the essentials

Visions of the future -- The economic approach : property rights, externalities, and environmental problems -- Evaluating trade-offs : benefit-cost analysis and other decision-making metrics -- Valuing the environment : methods -- Economics of pollution control : an overview -- Stationary-source local and regional air pollution -- Mobile-source air pollution -- Climate change -- Water pollution -- Toxic substances and environmental justice -- The quest for sustainable development -- Visions of the future revisited -- Answers to self-test exercises -- Glossary -- Index.