Natural Resources and the Environment: Economics, Law, Politics, and Institutions

ISBN-13: 9780367077617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 344 str.

Mark Kanazawa

Opis

Natural Resources and the Environment: Economics, Law, Politics, and Institutions provides a new approach to the study of environmental and natural resource economics. 

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. A mini-course in basic economic theory  3. Valuation  4. Institutions, property rights, and transaction costs  5. Common-pool resources  6. Public choice and the politics of environmental policy  7. Population  8. Fossil fuel energy  9. Climate change  10. Air and water quality  11. Energy conservation and energy efficiency  12. Renewable energy  13. Agriculture  14. Water resources  15. Fisheries  16. Forests and deforestation  17. Wildlife, endangered species, and biodiversity  18. Conclusion: Institutional environmental economics

O autorze

Mark Kanazawa is Wadsworth A. Williams Professor of Economics, Carleton College, USA. He is author of Research Methods for Environmental Studies: A Social Science Approach (Routledge 2018) and Golden Rules: The Origins of California Water Law in the Gold Rush (University of Chicago Press 2015).