Roger K. Raufer, Unknown

Pollution Markets in a Green Country Town

Urban Environmental Management in Transition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The brave new world of environmental economics-complete with pollution markets, emission brokers, and commodity auctions of emission allowances-has been developing in the U.S. for several decades. This book traces the evolution of such environmental management techniques in industrial Philadelphia. Initially as a greene country towne, the city's development led to significant pollution concerns, including rivers filled with sewage, typhoid deaths, and smoky plumes from coal combustion. Technological pollution controls improved conditions, but blunt regulatory tools eventually evolved into more refined economic approaches. This book describes that transition and the economic mechanisms that have emerged in recent decades, as well as prospective markets for ozone precursors, greenhouse gas emissions, and environmental risk (potentially offering what one pundit labeled cancer futures). In doing so, it presents a comprehensive overview-from old to new-of urban environmental management.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780275961749
• ISBN-10: 0275961745
• Artikelnr.: 22020816

Autorenporträt

Roger Raufer

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Paleotechnics Introduction A Greene County Towne Garden City The
Republican Cure Innocent as a Clock A Self-Flushing Mechanism Assorted
Wastes Chemical Contributions That Philadelphia Crowd Neotechnics Beyond
the Black Box An Uncertain Search A Useful Line of Inquiry Command/Control
with Bubbles An Academic Curiosity? Risky Business Efficiency and Beyond
Markets in Micromorts? Other Pollution Markets Flat Answers/ Beneficent
Solutions Bibliography Index