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An economist's guide to environmentalism : a toolkit for understanding and solving ecological problems

Lofthouse, Jordan K.

2025

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Codice SBN UBO4932347
Descrizione An *economist's guide to environmentalism : a toolkit for understanding and solving ecological problems / Jordan K. Lofthouse
New York [etc.] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025
VIII, 235 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN 9781538189856
Primo Autore
Lofthouse, Jordan K.
Soggetti ECONOMIA AMBIENTALE
Dewey 304.2 ECOLOGIA UMANA
Anno pubblicazione 2025
Titolo dell'opera An economist's guide to environmentalism
Abstract di polo Explains how economics can be used to solve an array of environmental issues from endangered species to global warming. Many species are threatened with extinction and landscapes are being destroyed. Water is becoming increasingly scarce, harming ecological systems and human societies. Perhaps the most pressing environmental problem is human-caused climate change. What causes these problems, and what can we do about them? In An Economist’s Guide to Environmentalism, Jordan K. Lofthouse demonstrates how the field of economics can explain the rise of environmental problems and offers a framework to evaluate the vast array of potential solutions. Lofthouse assembles a “toolkit” of easy-to-understand economic concepts and then applies those tools to a variety of environmental problems. These tools include incentives, constraints, trade-offs, unintended consequences, institutional analysis, and more. The examples in this book highlight how environmental issues often stem from poorly defined or poorly enforced property rights. Lofthouse argues for novel solutions such as assigning property rights to wildlife on the verge of extinction, private approaches to land conservation, and the implementation of water markets. Addressing global-scale problems like climate change requires the innovative and entrepreneurial discoveries of many different people in governments, markets, and civil society. Readers of this book will discover new opportunities and a refreshing, practical approach to protecting the planet through the insights of economics.