Pollution Markets in a Green Country Town: Urban Environmental Management in Transition by Raufer, Roger K.

Pollution Markets in a Green Country Town: Urban Environmental Management in Transition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780275961749)

Vendor: Roger K. Raufer
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$95.00
$95.00
$95.00
Subtotal: $95.00
Pollution Markets in a Green Country Town: Urban Environmental Management in Transition by Raufer, Roger K.

Pollution Markets in a Green Country Town: Urban Environmental Management in Transition

$95.00
Pollution Markets in a Green Country Town: Urban Environmental Management in Transition by Raufer, Roger K.

Pollution Markets in a Green Country Town: Urban Environmental Management in Transition

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
Description
x

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.

Author: Roger K. Raufer, Unknown
ISBN-10: 0275961745
ISBN-13: 9780275961749
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 05/26/1998
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.56h x 6.40w x 0.91d
By Roger K. Raufer
By Roger K. Raufer
x
ROGER K. RAUFER is an independent consulting engineer and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds degrees in chemical engineering, environmental engineering, political science, and energy management. Coauthor of the book Acid Rain and Emissions Trading (1987), which helped develop the market-based approach for acid rain control adopted in the U.S. in 1990, he is currently assisting the United Nations with pollution control in four Chinese cities.

Recently Viewed Products