Environmental & natural resource economics

"Environmental & natural resource economics" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Preface
• 2- Visions of the future
• 3- The economic approach : property rights, externalities, and environmental problems
• 4- Evaluating trade-offs : benefit-cost analysis and other decision-making metrics
• 5- Valuing the environment : methods
• 6- Dynamic efficiency and sustainable development
• 7- Depletable resource allocation : the role of longer time horizons, substitutes, and extraction cost
• 8- Energy : the transition from depletable to renewable resources
• 9- Recyclable resources : minerals, paper, bottles, and e-waste
• 10- Water : a confluence of renewable and depletable resources
• 11- A locationally fixed, multipurpose resource : land
• 12- Storable, renewable resources : forests
• 13- Common-pool resources : commercially valuable fisheries
• 14- Ecosystem goods and services : nature's threatened bounty
• 15- Economics of pollution control : an overview
• 16- Stationary-source local and regional air pollution
• 17- Climate change
• 18- Mobile-source air pollution
• 19- Water pollution
• 20- Toxic substances and environmental justice
• 21- The quest for sustainable development
• 22- Visions of the future revisited
• 23- Answers to self-test exercises
• 24- Glossary
• 25- Name index
• 26- Subject index.

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