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008			190816s2021 nyu b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2019019555
020			_a9781260575491
020			_a1260243060 _q(hardcover)
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _erda _dDLC
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050	0	0	_aHC79.E5 _bF47 2021
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100	1		_aField, Barry C., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aEnvironmental economics : _ban introduction / _cBarry C. Field, Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Martha K. Field, Department of Business and Information Technology, Greenfield Community College.
250			_aEighth edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bMcGraw-Hill, _c[2021]
300			_axxii, 442 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
520			_a"When our descendants look back at the last part of the 20th century, and now at the beginning of the 21st, we want them to be able to say: "That's when they began to take the degradation of the natural environment, with its threats to human life and the life of the planet, seriously." Furthermore, we would like them to be able to see that around this time we took serious steps to halt and reverse this process. This book is an introduction to environmental econom-ics, one way of approaching the steps that need to be taken. It's about the way human decisions affect the quality of the environment, how human values and institutions shape our demands for improvement in the quality of that envi-ronment, and, most especially, about how to design effective public policies to bring about these improvements. Problems of environmental quality are not something new; in fact, history is filled with bleak examples of environ-mental degradation, from deforestation by ancient peoples to mountains of horse manure in urban areas in the days before automobiles. But today's world is different. For one thing, many people in economically developed countries, having reached high levels of material well-being, are beginning to ask questions: What good is great material wealth if it comes at the cost of large-scale disruptions of the ecosystem by which we are nourished? More fundamental, perhaps, is the fact that with contemporary economic, demographic, and technological developments around the world, the associated environmental repercussions are becoming much more widespread and lethal. What once were localized environmental impacts, easily rectified, have now become widespread effects that may very well turn out to be irreversible"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aEnvironmental economics.
650		0	_aEconomic development _xEnvironmental aspects.
700	1		_aField, Martha K., _eauthor.
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955			_brm15 2019-08-16 _irm15 2019-08-16 (telework) to Dewey _axn11 2021-11-17 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver. _arm14 2021-12-06
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