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	Blueprint For A Green Economy by David Pearce, Anil Markandya And Edward B. Barbier
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Description: This report has been prepared by the London Environmental Economics Centre (LEEC). LEEC is a joint venture, established in 1988, by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the department of Economics of University College London (UCL).;Popularly known as "The Pearce Report", this books is a report prepared for the Department of the Environment. It demonstrates the ways in which elements in our environment at present under threat from many forms of pollution can be "costed".;It then shows ways in which governments are able, as a consequence of this analysis, to construct systems of taxation which would both reduce pollution by making it too costly and generate revenue of cleaning up much of the damage. The book ends with a series of skeleton programmes for progress.

Contents : Part 1 Introduction: the idea of sustainable development • sustainable development as a bequest to the future • economy and environment • valuing the environment • anticipatory and reactive environmental policy • the challenge of global pollution • summarising the sustainable development approach to environmental policy • growth "versus" the environment?. Part 2 The meaning of sustainable development. Part 3 Valuing the environment. Part 4 Accounting for the environment. Part 5 project apprai Part 6 Discounting the future. Part 7 Prices and incentives for environmental improvement.ISBN - 9781853830662

Pages : 208