Abstract
El análisis económico es de vital importancia paracomprender los problemas ambientales y orientar latoma de decisiones de política en este terreno. Elpresente artículo recoge una síntesis de las reflexionescentrales formuladas por el autor durante los últimoscinco OOos, con especial énfasis en los siguientestemas: el concepto de las extemalidades ambientalescomo punto de referencia obligado del análisis económicode este tipo de problemas; el papel de losinstrumentos económicos como parte integrante ypotencializadora de una política ambiental compleja;y los principios de equidad y trasectorialidad dentrode esta política. Se señalan además algunas de las másevidentes limitaciones de la economía para orientar latoma de decisiones adecuadas desde una perspectivaambiental mente deseableCuadernos de Desarrollo Ruralis registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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