Environmental Economics

Author: Yuan Yijun
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This book focuses on the "economic-environment" system, which is composed of the economic system and the environmental system. The key research is how to apply the principles and methods of economics and environmental science to analyze the relationship between economic development and environmental protection, explore reasonable ways to regulate the material exchange between economic reproduction and natural reproduction, align it with natural ecological balance and material cycling laws, and establish socio-economic activities on the basis of the adaptive carrying capacity of environmental resources. This aims to achieve sustainable socio-economic development with the minimum social and environmental costs. In terms of content arrangement, the book emphasizes the reference and absorption of new achievements in the theory and methods of environmental economics research, systematically introducing the general principles and applications of environmental economics. Its main content includes: the relationship between the economic system and the environmental system, economic instruments for environmental protection, the assessment of the environment and its economic value, and environmental resource economics. The book emphasizes the connection between theory and practice, highlights the application of modern economic analysis methods in environmental economics, and focuses on cultivating readers' ability to use these methods and tools to analyze environmental economic issues. This book can serve as a textbook for senior undergraduate students and master's degree students in economics and management disciplines in higher education institutions, and can also be read by other types of readers.