Environmental and Natural Resource EconomicsΒ 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.
Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
β Scribed by Tony Prato
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 314
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Utilizes basic concepts of economics and finance to explain the relationship of the economy to the ecosystem, seeing the ecosystem as imposing biophysical constraints on economic growth. Means of sustainable economic development and sustainable resource use are stressed. Background material and alternative, more efficient, problem-solving approaches are included.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
......Page 3
Preface
......Page 9
01 Importance of Natural Resources and Environment
......Page 12
02 Economic and Financial Concept
s in Resource Management......Page 35
03 Historical Views of Natural and Environmental Resource Capacity
......Page 62
04 Economy and Environment......Page 80
05 Property Rights and E
xternalities......Page 97
06 Natural Resource Decisions
......Page 116
07 Exhaustible Resource Use
......Page 130
08 Renewable Resource Management
......Page 161
09 Economics of
Environmental Pollution......Page 192
10 missing chapter!!
......Page 245
11 Benefit-Cost Analysis of Resource Investments
......Page 246
12 Nonmarket Valuation of Natural and Environmental Resources
......Page 282
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