Economics of a Disaster: The EXXON Valdez Oil Spill

by Gloria J. Hurdle, Harold W. Furchtgott-Roth, Gale Mosteller, et al.

The Economics of a Disaster represents a major contribution to the understanding of the economics of liability and damages. It is based on the assumption that if people know they can be held responsible for some or all of the costs or damages sustained in an environmental accident, they will change their behavior to make the accident less likely to occur or to reduce the damages should it occur. The work develops a framework to examine and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899309879
• ISBN13: 9780899309873
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"