Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy Essays from the Sixth RFF Forum

Twelve scholars examine some leading problems in environmental quality, analyze present situations and future prospects, and suggest what might be done about them. Originally published in 1966

Chapter 1 Resources Development and the Environment; The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth, Kenneth E. Boulding; Pressures of Growth Upon Environment, Harold J. Barnett; Chapter 2 Environment and Human Health; Promises and Hazards of Man’S Adaptrability, René Dubos; Mental Health in an Urban Society, Leonard J. Duhl; Chapter 3 Beyond the Market Mechanism; Side Effects of Resource Use, Ralph Turvey; Some Problems of Criteria and Acquiring Information, Roland N. McKean; Chapter 4 Economic Research in Problems of Environment; Research Goals and Progress Toward Them, Allen V. Kneese; Welfare Economics and the Environment, M. Mason Gaffney; Chapter 5 Public Attitudes on Environmental Quality; Formation and Role of Public Attitudes, Gilbert F. White; Assumptions Behind the Public Attitudes, David Lowenthal; Chapter 6 Needed Improvements in Policies and Institutions; New Tasks for all Levels of Government, Norton E. Long; Some New Machinery to Help do the Job, Jacob H. Beuscher;

Henry Jarrett