Environmental and natural resource economics
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Environmental and natural resource economics
HarperCollins College, c1996
4th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
This edition has been updated to include broader coverage of current research concerns and policy issues; expanded coverage of key real-world topics; and updated examples and applications. The book also includes numerical examples to help students understand abstract concepts more clearly.
Table of Contents
- Visions of the future
- economics of the environment - an overview
- property rights, externalizes and environmental problems
- regulating the market - information and uncertainty
- the population problem
- the allocation of depletable and renewable resources - an overview
- depletable, nonrecyclable energy resources - oil, gas, coal and uranium
- recyclable resources - minerals, paper, glass etc.
- replenishable but depletable resources - water
- reproducible private property resources - agriculture
- storable, renewable resources - forests
- renewable common-property resources - fisheries and other specifics
- generalized resource scarcity
- economics of pollution control - an overview
- stationary-source local air pollution
- regional and global air pollutants - acid rain and atmospheric modification
- mobile-source air pollution
- water pollution
- toxic substances
- environmental justice
- development, poverty and the environment
- the quest for sustainable development
- visions of the future revisited.
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