Costing the Earth

In Costing the Earth, Frances Cairncross shows the ways in which government can and must create the right conditions for businesses to develop environmentally sound practices and products. Covering issues such as water pollution, the greenhouse effect, and the destruction of the rain forests in a global context, the author shows how governments can design environmental policies that spur industry to innovate. Using economically based arguments, she demonstrates how the needs of industry must go hand in hand with those of ecology.

First sentence: Politicians anxious to prove their environmentalism like to tell voters that taking better care of the environment is good for economic growth.

Year

1991

Language

English

Publisher

Economist Books

Editions

4

Pages

256

ISBN

9780091749187

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