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Introduction.
Chapter 1. Four Economic Questions about Global Warming.
PART I: HOW MUCH POLLUTION IS TOO MUCH?
Chapter 2. Ethics and Economics.
Chapter 3. Pollution and Resource Degradation as Externalities.
Chapter 4. The Efficiency Standard.
Chapter 5. The Safety Standard.
Chapter 6. Sustainabilities: A Neoclassical View.
Chapter 7. Sustainabilities: An Ecological View.
Chapter 8. Measuring the Benefits of Environmental Protection.
Chapter 9. Measuring the Costs of Environmental Protection.
Chapter 10. Benefit-Cost in Practice: Implementing the Efficiency Standard.
Chapter 11. Is More Really Better? Consumption and Welfare.
PART II: IS GOVERNMENT UP TO THE JOB?
Chapter 12. The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation.
Chapter 13. An Overview of Environmental Legislation.
Chapter 14. The Regulatory Record: Achievements and Obstacles.
Chapter 15. Monitoring and Enforcement.
PART III: HOW CAN WE DO BETTER?
Chapter 16. Incentive-Based Regulation: Theory.
Chapter 17. Incentive-Based Regulation: Practice.
Chapter 18. Promoting Clean Technology: Theory.
Chapter 19. Promoting Clean Technology: Practice.
Chapter 20. Energy Policy and the Environment.
PART IV: CAN WE RESOLVE GLOBAL ISSUES?
Chapter 21. Poverty, Population, and the Environment.
Chapter 22. Environmental Policy in Poor Countries.
Chapter 23. The Economics of Global Agreements.
Selected Web Site for Environmental and Natural Economists.
Author Index.
Subject Index.