Author: David Pearce, Anil Markandya and Edward B. Barbier
Publication: Earthscan Publications
ISBN: 1853830666
Pages: 192
About Author:
David Pearce is Professor of Economics at University College London and main author of five previous Blueprint titles and numerous other books. He was for several years the chief environmental adviser to the UK Government. Anil Markandya is a Professor in Economics at the University of Bath, England. She has published many books in the field of ecological economics. Edward B. Barbier is Reader in Environmental Economics at the University of York.
About Book:
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.
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