Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Ch. 1. Four Economic Questions about Global Warming -- Pt. I. How Much Pollution is Too Much? -- Ch. 2. Ethics and Economics -- Ch. 3. Pollution and Resource Degradation as Externalities -- Ch. 4. The Efficiency Standard -- Ch. 5. The Safety Standard -- Ch. 6. Sustainability: A Neoclassical View -- Ch. 7. Sustainability: An Ecological View -- Ch. 8. Measuring the Benefits of Environmental Protection -- Ch. 9. Measuring the Costs of Environmental Protection -- Ch. 10. Benefit - Cost in Practice: Implementing the Efficiency Standard -- Ch. 11. Is More Really Better? Consumption and Welfare -- Pt. II. Is Government up to the Job? -- Ch. 12. The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation -- Ch. 13. An Overview of Environmental Legislation -- Ch. 14. The Regulatory Record: Achievements and Obstacles -- Ch. 15. Monitoring and Enforcement -- Pt. III. How Can we do Better? -- Ch. 16. Incentive-Based Regulation: Theory -- Ch. 17. Incentive-Based Regulation: Practice -- Ch. 18. Promoting Clean Technology: Theory -- Ch. 19. Promoting Clean Technology: Practice -- Ch. 20. Energy Policy and the Environment -- Pt. IV. Can We Resolve Global Issues? -- Ch. 21. Poverty, Population, and the Environment -- Ch. 22. Environmental Policy in Poor Countries -- Ch. 23. The Economics of Global Agreements -- Selected Web Sites for Environmental and Natural Resource Economists.