Environmental & natural resource economics
By: Tom Tietenberg, Emeritus, Colby College, Lynne Lewis, Bates College
Contributors: Lewis, Lynne
Edition: 10th Edition.
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 606
ISBN-13: 9780133479690
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Environmental economics; Environmental policy; Natural resources; Government policy; Raw materials
Other titles: Environmental and natural resource economics
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Visions of the future; title: The economic approach : property rights, externalities, and environmental problems; title: Evaluating trade-offs : benefit-cost analysis and other decision-making metrics; title: Valuing the environment : methods; title: Dynamic efficiency and sustainable development; title: Depletable resource allocation : the role of longer time horizons, substitutes, and extraction cost; title: Energy : the transition from depletable to renewable resources; title: Recyclable resources : minerals, paper, bottles, and e-waste; title: Water : a confluence of renewable and depletable resources; title: A locationally fixed, multipurpose resource : land; title: Storable, renewable resources : forests; title: Common-pool resources : commercially valuable fisheries; title: Ecosystem goods and services : nature's threatened bounty; title: Economics of pollution control : an overview; title: Stationary-source local and regional air pollution; title: Climate change; title: Mobile-source air pollution; title: Water pollution; title: Toxic substances and environmental justice; title: The quest for sustainable development; title: Visions of the future revisited; title: Answers to self-test exercises; title: Glossary; title: Name index; title: Subject index.