Environmental and Natural Resource Economics is the best-selling text for this course, offering a policy-oriented approach and introducing economic theory in the context of debates and empirical work from the field. Students leave the course with a global perspective of both environmental and natural resource economics.
Key Features
- International coverage is woven throughout, with significant attention given to environmental problems and policies in Eastern and Western Europe, China, and developing nations.
- Debate boxes spark discussion about real issues in the field today, including the debates over wind power and ecotourism.
- Example boxes provide crucial real-world context for economic theory, touching on topics such as hazardous pollutant emissions from iron and steel foundries.
- Intertemporal optimization is handled within a discrete-time, mathematical programming framework, and all mathematics beyond simple algebra are relegated to appendixes. Graphs and numerical examples are used to provide an intuitive understanding of the principles suggested by the math and the reasons for their validity.
- Flexible organization allows instructors to fit individual course outlines.
New to This Edition
- More than 30 New or Expanded Topics.
- At least 12 New Examples or Debates.
- More Self-Test Exercises & Updates.
Contents
- Visions of the Future
- The Economic Approach: Property Rights, Externalities and Environmental Problems
- Evaluating Trade-offs: Benefit-Cost Analysis and other Decision-Making Metrics
- Valuing the Environment: Methods
- Dynamic Efficiency and Sustainable Development
- Depletable Resource Allocation: The Role of Longer Time Horizons, Substitutes and Extraction Cost
- Energy: The Transition from Depletable to Renewable Resources
- Recyclable Resources: Minerals, Paper, Bottles, and E-Waste
- Replenishable but Depletable Resources: Water
- A Locationally Fixed, Multipurpose Resource: Land
- Reproducible Private-Property Resources: Agriculture and Food Security
- Storable, Renewable Resources: Forests
- Common-Pool Resources: Fisheries and Other Commercially Valuable Species
- Economics of Pollution Control: An Overview
- Stationary-Source Local and Regional Air Pollution
- Climate Change
- Mobile-Source Air Pollution
- Water Pollution
- Toxic Substances and Environmental Justice
- The Quest for Sustainable Development
- Population and Development
- Visions of the Future Revisited
Book Details
- Hardcover: 696 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 9 edition (c2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0131392573
- ISBN-13: 978-0131392571
- Product Dimensions: 1.6 x 7.4 x 9.1 inches
- List Price: $172.80