Environmental and natural resource economics : a contemporary approach

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Environmental and natural resource economics : a contemporary approach

Jonathan M. Harris, Brian Roach

Routledge, 2022

5th edition

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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* Adopts a pluralist approach introducing students to both environmental economics and ecological economics highlighting the explanatory power, and complementarity, of both approaches in exploring the economics of environmental and natural resource issues. * This edition includes enhanced and updated coverage of topics such as the Green New Deal, post-Paris climate discussions, development in carbon trading systems, and deforestation in the Amazon to ensure the text is up-to-speed with the latest research and developments in the field. * A supporting website provides a full range of teaching resources including multiple choice questions and PowerPoint slides, and features regular updates on new case studies, policy initiatives and overviews of key topics, to provide a complete teaching and learning resource.

Table of Contents

  • 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

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