Natural Resource and Environmental Economics - 3rd Edition

Paperback  728 pages  ISBN 0273655590      £36.00

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Natural Resource and Environmental Economics is among the leading textbooks in its field. Well written and rigorous in its approach, this third edition follows in the vein of previous editions and continues to provide a comprehensive and clear account of the application of economic analysis to environmental issues. This new edition has evolved with the times and been thoroughly updated to reflect recent developments in environmental issues and policies, such as forestry, biodiversity and pollution control. The early chapters explain the development and role of environmental economics before further chapters advance the student at a suitably challenging but achievable level.

Contents

I. FOUNDATIONS
1. An introduction to natural resource and environmental economics
2. The origins of the sustainability problem
3. Ethics, welfare economics and the environment
4. Concepts of sustainability
5. Welfare economics and the environment

II. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
6. Pollution control: targets
7. Pollution control: instruments
8. Pollution policy with imperfect information
9. Economy wide modelling
10. International environmental problems

III. PROJECT APPRAISAL
11. Cost benefit analysis
12. Valuing the environment
13. Irreversibility risk and uncertainty 

IV. NATURAL RESOURCE EXPLOITATION
14. The efficient and optimal use of natural resources
15. Non-renewable resources
16. Stock pollution problems
17. Renewable resources
18. Forest resources
19. Accounting for the environment

Features

• Extensive use of case studies and examples of the application of the theory.
• Each chapter concludes with suggested further readings, discussion questions and problems.
• The mathematics of the text is covered in a separate appendix.
• A Companion Website providing a full resource pack for both lecturers and students, including a downloadable Instructor’s manual, extra exercises and a bank of multiple choice questions for students.
• Relates environmental economics to ethics and the natural sciences.
• Rigorous and comprehensive account of the application of economic analysis to environmental issues.