The City And The Agricultural Sector Inter- Relationship: Environmental Costs And Benefits
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
39
Pages
9
Published
2000
Size
806 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/URS000101
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
O. Ayalon, Y. Avnimelech & M. Shechter
Abstract
Both the urban and the agricultural sectors use natural resources and produce wastes using environmental resources. From an economic perspective, each and every stage of production, use and disposal of goods (or services) should also incorporate (internalize) the associated environmental costs, quantified whenever possible. It has by now been universally accepted that in searching for optimal means for the solution of solid waste, comparing and selecting disposal alternatives, an explicit cognizance must be taken of environmental costs. This will render the different alternatives comparably and thus enable a more comprehensive search for an optimal solution. The co-existence of the
Keywords