Environmental And Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporay Approach.

by Harris, Jonathan M.

• ISBN13: 9780618496334
• ISBN10: 0618496335
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-30
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Environmental and Natural Resource Economicsengages students in standard economic theory through the lens of hot-button environmental issues such as global climate change and overpopulation. This broad, balanced approach combines traditional microeconomic analysis with a detailed examination of macro-level ecological problems that require local, national, and global policy solutions. Revisions to the Second Edition include new appendices, updated case studies, and the inclusion of current economic data. Numerous examples, graphs, key terms, and end-of-chapter questions help students review and assimilate core concepts. The author emphasizes the importance of using valuation techniques to solve quantifiable problems, such as determining the price of a fishing license, while also considering the unquantifiable nature of ethics, biodiversity, and similar issues. New!Two new appendices--"Basic Supply and Demand Theory" and "Basic National Income Accounting"--lend support and specificity to the principles covered in Chapters 3 and 8. These appendices give students insight into economic theories and provide an opportunity for review.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Economy and the Environment

Changing Perspectives on the Environment

Resources, Environment, and Economic Development

Economic Analysis of Environmental Issues

The Theory of Environmental Externalities

Common-Property Resources and Public Goods

Resource Allocation Over Time

Valuing the Environment

Ecological Economics and Environmental Accounting

Ecological Economics: Basic Concepts

National Income and Environmental Accounting

Modeling Economic and Ecological Systems

Population, Agriculture, and the Environment

Population and the Environment

Agriculture, Food, and Environment

Energy and Resources

Nonrenewable Resources: Scarcity and Abundance

Energy: The Great Transition

Renewable Resource Use: Fisheries

Ecosystem Management: Forest and Water Systems

Pollution: Impacts and Policy Responses

Pollution: Analysis and Policy

Industrial Ecology

Global Climate Change

Environment, Trade, and Development

World Trade and the Environment

Institutions for Sustainable Development

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