Environmental Economics: A Critique of Benefit-Cost Analysis

By Philip E. Graves

Book Overview

For the past 25 years, governmental decision-makers have employed the economic approach of benefit-cost analysis for resource allocation decisions. Environmental Economics describes, in a non-technical, readily understandable way, why the actual practice of benefit-cost analysis in environmental settings is heavily biased against the environment. The book provides environmentalists with the tools necessary to show policy-makers that pursuing many policies with apparent costs greater than benefits are, in fact, welfare enhancing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742546993
• ISBN13: 9780742546998
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 4.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"