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Table of contents:

MODULE I: MODELING ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS.
1. The Role of Economics in Environmental Management.
2. Modeling the Market Process: A Review of the Basics.
3. Modeling Market Failure.
MODULE II: MODELING SOLUTIONS TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS.
4. Conventional Solutions to Environmental Problems: The Command-and-Control Approach.
5. Economic Solutions to Environmental Problems: The Market Approach.
MODULE III: ANALYTICAL TOOLS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING.
6. Environmental Risk Analysis.
7. Assessing Benefits for Environmental Decision Making.
8. Assessing Costs for Environmental Decision Making.
9. Benefit-Cost Analysis in Environmental Decision Making.
MODULE IV: THE CASE OF AIR.
10. Defining Air Quality: The Standard-Setting Process.
11. Improving Air Quality: Controlling Mobile Sources.
12. Improving Air Quality: Controlling Stationary Sources.
13. Global Air Quality: Policies for Ozone Depletion and Climate Change.
MODULE V: THE CASE OF WATER.
14. Defining Water Quality: The Standard-Setting Process.
15. Improving Water Quality: Controlling Point and Nonpoint Sources.
16. Protecting Safe Drinking Water.
MODULE VI: THE CASE OF SOLID WASTES AND TOXIC SUBSTANCES.
17. Managing Hazardous Solid Waste and Waste Sites.
18. Managing Municipal Solid Waste.
19. Controlling Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals.
MODULE VII: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT.
20. Sustainable Development: International Environmental Agreements and International Trade.
21. Sustainable Approaches: Industrial Ecology and Pollution Prevention.