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| Artikel-Nr.: 858A-9783642092879 Herst.-Nr.: 9783642092879 EAN/GTIN: 9783642092879 |
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| The labor of nature is paid, not because she does much, but because she does little. In proportion as she becomes niggardly in her gifts, she exacts a greater price for her work. Where she is munificently bene- cent, she always works gratis. 1 David Ricardo This book interprets nature and the environment as a scarce resource. Whereas in the past people lived in a paradise of environmental superabundance, at present environmental goods and services are no longer in ample supply. The environment fulfills many functions for the economy: it serves as a public-c- sumption good, as a provider of natural resources, and as receptacle of waste. These different functions compete with each other. Releasing more pollutants into the environment reduces environmental quality, and a better environmental quality implies that the environment's use as a receptacle of waste has to be restrained. Consequently, environmental disruption and environmental use are by nature allocation problems. This is the basic message of this book. Weitere Informationen: | | Author: | Horst Siebert | Verlag: | Springer Berlin | Sprache: | eng |
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| Weitere Suchbegriffe: Wirtschaftsbücher - englischsprachig, allgemeine Sozialwissenschaftsbücher - englischsprachig, bücher zu sozialwissenschaften allgemein, Biodiversity; allocation theory; environmental allocation; environmental economics; Environmental policy; production; Public Goods, Biodiversity, allocation theory, environmental allocation, environmental economics, environmental policy, production, public goods |
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