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Part 1 Environmental economics and sustainability - the setting:background to environmental economics and sustainable development. Part 2Externalities and policies to control environmental spillovers: on the theoryof externalities - relevant and irrelevant externalities; relevance ofnon-marginal externalities - allowing for extra-marginal external economies;pollution control policies - proposals by economists. Part 3 Projectevaluation, cost benefit analysis and the environment: the law, risk-takingand environmental spillovers; externalities and coasian considerations inproject evaluation; cost-benefit analysis, the environment and internationalconstraints; project appraisal and sustainability. Part 4 Sustainabledevelopment and economic activity: the nature of sustainability and ofsustainable development; sustainable development - differing perspectives ofecologists and economists; economics, ecology and sustainable agriculturesystems; exploitation of techniques that decline in effectiveness with use.Part 5 Environmental policies and global conservation: ecological economicsand major policy issues; the world conservation strategy - an economiccritique; resource conservation and sustainability in developing countriesand global concerns; economic instruments for the control of globalenvironmental problems - recent policy proposals for caring for the Earth.