04687nam a22006255i 4500 978-3-031-63481-9 DE-He213 20251030114636.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241224s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031634819 978-3-031-63481-9 10.1007/978-3-031-63481-9 doi HC79.E5 KCN bicssc BUS099000 bisacsh KCVG thema Buchholz, Wolfgang. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 89466 Foundations of Environmental Economics [electronic resource] : An Introduction to the Economic Analysis of National and International Environmental Challenges / by Wolfgang Buchholz, Christiane Reif, Dirk Rübbelke. 2nd ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XV, 256 p. 57 illus., 27 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Springer Texts in Business and Economics, 2192-4341 Chapter 1. Economics and Environmental Degradation -- Chapter 2. Environmental Externalities and their Internationalization Through Voluntary Approaches -- Chapter 3. Monetary Valuation of the Environment -- Chapter 4. Assessing Environmental Policy Instruments -- Chapter 5. International Environmental Problems -- Chapter 6. Climate Change and Water Supply: Strategic Aspects of Adaptation Conflicts. This textbook provides a solid introduction to the theoretical and empirical aspects of environmental economics and their links to environmental policy. In this second edition, all chapters have been updated and restructured, and new sections have been added to reflect a greater focus on climate policy. Starting from the need to balance the social costs of pollution against the financial costs of emission abatement, the book discusses the major issues that arise in the context of environmental policy – such as the potential and limitations of monetary valuation of the environment (and in particular the contingent valuation method) and the design of environmental policy. With regard to the choice of environmental policy instruments, the book focuses on the price-based instruments preferred by economists, i.e., environmental taxes and emissions trading, discussing in detail not only their many advantages but also their drawbacks. The second edition especially focuses on green industrial policy as a complementary measure to price-based instruments, the distributional effects of environmental policies, and the resulting challenges for political feasibility. Moreover, the book deals extensively with international environmental problems, in particular climate protection, which is a global public good that will be underprovided when certain countries refuse to cooperate and contribute. Approaches to overcoming this underprovision are described in far more detail than in the first edition, both theoretically and empirically – in particular by assessing the functions of the many international environmental agreements in this field. Finally, a new chapter considers adaptation strategies, especially in the water sector, as an additional pillar of climate policy. Environmental economics. 57520 Energy policy. 61992 Energy and state. 66460 Climatology. 62309 Economic policy. 58351 Microeconomics. 58393 Environmental Economics. 57520 Energy Policy, Economics and Management. 66461 Climate Sciences. 67755 Economic Policy. 58351 Microeconomics. 58393 Reif, Christiane. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 89467 Rübbelke, Dirk. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 89468 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031634802 Printed edition: 9783031634826 Printed edition: 9783031634833 Springer Texts in Business and Economics, 2192-4341 69742 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63481-9 ZDB-2-ECF ZDB-2-SXEF 65982 65982