Environmental & natural resource economics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Pearson,
2015
New York : Routledge, 2015 |
| Edition: | 10th and global Edition. |
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| Classic Catalogue: | View this record in Classic Catalogue |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 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
- Water : a confluence of renewable and depletable resources
- A locationally fixed, multipurpose resource : land
- Storable, renewable resources : forests
- Common-pool resources : commercially valuable fisheries
- Ecosystem goods and services : nature's threatened bounty
- 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
- Visions of the future revisited
- Answers to self-test exercises
- Glossary
- Name index
- Subject index.