Environmental & Natural Resources Economics

by Tietenberg, Tom; Lewis, Lynne

• ISBN13: 9780131392571
• ISBN10: 0131392573
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780133479690, 9780321485717
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-08-12
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Summary

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics  takes a policy-oriented approach, introducing economic theory in the context of debates and empirical work from the field. Readers will gain a global perspective of both environmental and natural resource economics.

Table of Contents

Brief Table of Contents:

 

1. Visions of the Future
2. The Economic Approach: Property Rights, Externalities and Environmental Problems
3. Evaluating Trade-offs: Benefit-Cost Analysis and other Decision-Making Metrics
4. Valuing the Environment: Methods
5. Dynamic Efficiency and Sustainable Development
6. Depletable Resource Allocation: The Role of Longer Time Horizons, Substitutes and Extraction Cost
7. Energy: The Transition from Depletable to Renewable Resources
8. Recyclable Resources: Minerals, Paper, Bottles, and E-Waste
9. Replenishable but Depletable Resources: Water
10. A Locationally Fixed, Multipurpose Resource: Land
11. Reproducible Private-Property Resources: Agriculture and Food Security
12. Storable, Renewable Resources: Forests
13. Common-Pool Resources: Fisheries and Other Commercially Valuable Species
14. Economics of Pollution Control: An Overview
15. Stationary-Source Local and Regional Air Pollution
16. Climate Change
17. Mobile-Source Air Pollution
18. Water Pollution
19. Toxic Substances and Environmental Justice
20. The Quest for Sustainable Development
21. Population and Development
22. Visions of the Future Revisited