What Environmentalists Need to Know About Economics (Paperback)

KEY TITLE Economic insights are essential to understanding the root causes of environmental problems and the policy options for how to change behavior at the individual, community, national, and international levels. What Environmentalists Need to Know about Economics Provides a conceptual set of tools for how to approach environmental issues in a rigorous and thoughtful manner, based on an analysis of incentives, property rights, market failure, supply and demand constraints, and insights from behavioral economics. Easy-to-read and filled with real-world examples of the most complex environmental challenges, this book demonstrates that sound economic analysis and reasoning can be one of the environmental community's strongest allies. This is sure to become an invaluable resource for students, environmental organizations, and policymakers, on how economists view environmental problems and the ways to solve them.