Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach

ISBN-13: 9780367531386 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 716 str.

Jonathan M. Harris; Brian Roach

Opis

In a rapidly changing policy and scientific context, this new edition reflects an updated perspective on modern environmental topics. Now in its fifth edition, this textbook includes enhanced and updated material on energy, climate change, greening the economy, population, agriculture, forests and water.

Spis treści

1. Changing Perspectives on the Environment; 2. Resources, Environment, and Economic Development; 3. The Theory of Environmental Externalities; 4. Common Property Resources and Public Goods; 5. Resource Allocation Over Time; 6. Valuing the Environment; 7. Cost–Benefit Analysis; 8. Pollution: Analysis and Policy; 9. Ecological Economics: Basic Concepts; 10. National Income and Environmental Accounting; 11. Energy: The Great Transition; 12. Global Climate Change: Science and Economics; 13. Global Climate Change: Policy Responses; 14. Greening the Economy; 15. Population and the Environment; 16. Agriculture, Food, and Environment; 17. Nonrenewable Resources: Scarcity and Abundance; 18. Renewable Resource Use: Fisheries; 19. Forests and Land Management; 20. Water: Economics and Policy; 21. World Trade and the Environment; 22. Policies for Sustainable Development