The disparity in wealth both within and between nations has grown rapidly in recent years, and is becoming an increasingly significant issue in attempts to deal with environmental problems - from international negotiations over climate change to localconcerns about environmental justice....

The developed countries, particularly the United States, consume a disproportionate share of the world\'s resources, yet high and rising levels of consumption do not necessarily lead to greater satisfaction, security, or well-being, even for affluent consumers....

The earnest warnings of an impending \"solid waste crisis\" that permeated the 1980s provided the impetus for the widespread adoption of municipal recycling programs....

Microeconomics in Context challenges conventional approaches to the field by covering the physical and social/psychological factors influencing economic activities before introducing underlying principles....

Book Description A timely and much needed corrective to the current infatuation with cost-benefit analysis and the derelict logic used to defend it. As clinical as it sounds to express the value of human lives, health, or the environment in cold dollars and cents, cost-benefit analysis requires it....

Human impacts on the environment are largely driven by economic forces. If a more ecologically sustainable world is to be achieved, significant changes must be made to the current growth- and consumption-dependent economic system....

What are the ends of economic activity? According to neoclassical theory, efficient interaction of the profit-maximizing \"ideal producer\" and the utility-maximizing \"ideal consumer\" will eventually lead to some sort of social optimum. But is that social optimum the same as human well-being?...