Economics of Natural & Environmental Resources

✍ Scribed by Smith, Vernon L

• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 521
• Series: Routledge revivals
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

First written in 1977, Economics of Natural and Environmental Resources presents a collection of articles written in exploration of the economic, social, and ecological problems peculiar to natural and environmental resources. Whilst focusing on the economic theory of natural resources, the contributions also consider geological, technological, and institutional features of particular resources.;Cover; Economics of Natural & Environmental Resources; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Part I. Theory of Exhaustible Resources; Chapter 1. Some Extensions of the Economic Theory of Exhaustible Resources.; Chapter 2. The Theory of Exhaustible Resource Use: A Basic Model.; Chapter 3. An Optimistic Theory of Exhaustible Resources.; Chapter 4. The Optimal Depletion of Exhaustible Resources.; Part II. Petroleum and Natural Gas Economics; Chapter 5. Petroleum Conservation in Theory and Practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Economics of Natural & Environmental Resources
Title Page
Copyright Page
Original Title Page
Original Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I. Theory of Exhaustible Resources
Chapter 1. Some Extensions of the Economic Theory of Exhaustible Resources.
Chapter 2. The Theory of Exhaustible Resource Use: A Basic Model.
Chapter 3. An Optimistic Theory of Exhaustible Resources.
Chapter 4. The Optimal Depletion of Exhaustible Resources.
Part II. Petroleum and Natural Gas Economics
Chapter 5. Petroleum Conservation in Theory and Practice. Chapter 6. Public Policy Problems of the Domestic Crude Oil Industry. Chapter 7. An Economic Model of Production and Investment for Petroleum Reservoirs.
Part III. Biological Resource Economics
Chapter 8. A Generalized Wickselling Capital Model--An Application to Forestry.
Chapter 9. Optimal Utilization and the Control of Fisheries.
Chapter 10. Optimization and Suboptimization in Fishery Regulation.
Chapter 11. Optimization and Suboptimization in Fishery Regulation: Comment.
Chapter 12. General Equilibrium with a Replenishable Natural Resource. Chapter 13. Mathematical Models of a Fishery. Chapter 14. Exploitation of Common-Property Replenishable Natural Resources.
Chapter 15. The Primitive Hunter Culture, Pleistocene Extinction, and the Rise of Agriculture.
Part IV. Water Resource Economics
Chapter 16. Optimal Resource Use Over Time with an Application to Ground Water.
Chapter 17. Temporal Allocation of Ground Water.
Chapter 18. A Socially Optimal Pricing Policy for a Public Water Agency.
Part V. General Theory of Production from Natural Resources
Chapter 19. Economics of Production from Natural Resources. Chapter 20. Production and Investment in Natural Resource Industries. Part VI. The Environment
Chapter 21. Production, Consumption and Externalities.
Chapter 22. Littering, Derelicts and the Pricing System.
Chapter 23. Dynamics of Waste Accumulation: Disposal Versus Recycling.
Chapter 24. The Optimal Control of Pollution.
Chapter 25. A Polluted Golden Age.
Chapter 26. The Economics of Environmental Preservation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis.
Chapter 27. Environmental Preservation, Uncertainty, and Irreversibility.
Chapter 28. Economics of Wilderness Resources.

✦ Subjects

Environmental policy--Mathematical models;Natural resources--Mathematical models;Pollution--Economic aspects--Mathematical models;Electronic books;Environmental policy -- Mathematical models;Natural resources -- Mathematical models;Pollution -- Economic aspects -- Mathematical models