TY - BOOK

T1 - Ambivalent joint production and the natural environment

T2 - an economic and thermodynamic analysis

AU - Baumgärtner, Stefan

N1 - Literaturverz. S. [295] - 321

PY - 2000/1/1

Y1 - 2000/1/1

N2 - Many environmental damages are caused by substances which come into existence as undesired joint outputs in the production of desired goods. Whether an output is desired or not, however, is not an inherent property of the substance itself but depends on the context of production. This book studies the role of a potential ambivalence of joint outputs for the description and analysis of dynamic economy-environment interactions and for the design of efficient environmental policy. This is done in an interisciplinary way: methods and insights from thermodynamics, engineering sciences, economics and the methodology of economics are combined in order to develop an encompassing view on the complex and multivarious phenomenon of ambivalent joint production. By using the concept of joint production as a unifying framework for describing and analyzing the relations between human economic activity and the surrounding natural environment this book contributes to a critical and constructive assessment of the traditional environmental economic approach.

AB - Many environmental damages are caused by substances which come into existence as undesired joint outputs in the production of desired goods. Whether an output is desired or not, however, is not an inherent property of the substance itself but depends on the context of production. This book studies the role of a potential ambivalence of joint outputs for the description and analysis of dynamic economy-environment interactions and for the design of efficient environmental policy. This is done in an interisciplinary way: methods and insights from thermodynamics, engineering sciences, economics and the methodology of economics are combined in order to develop an encompassing view on the complex and multivarious phenomenon of ambivalent joint production. By using the concept of joint production as a unifying framework for describing and analyzing the relations between human economic activity and the surrounding natural environment this book contributes to a critical and constructive assessment of the traditional environmental economic approach.

KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics

KW - adam smith

KW - alfred marshall

KW - johann heinrich von Thünen

KW - Karl Marx

KW - duality

KW - economic theory

KW - economics

KW - environment

KW - environmental policy

KW - equilibrium

KW - general equilibrium

KW - Modeling

KW - strategy

KW - thermodynamics

KW - Welfare

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-57658-4

DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-57658-4

M3 - Book

SN - 978-3-7908-1290-9

SN - 3790812900

T3 - Contributions to Economics

BT - Ambivalent joint production and the natural environment

PB - Physica-Verlag

CY - Heidelberg

ER -