Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm
The Essentials
Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm
ISBN: 978-1-03-268909-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Key features include:
• Extensive coverage of the major issues, including energy, recyclable resources, water policy, land conservation and management, forests, fisheries, other ecosystems, and sustainable development
• Introductions to the theory and method of natural resource economics, including externalities, experimental and behavioral economics, benefit-cost analysis, and methods for valuing the services provided by the environment
• Boxed ‘Examples’ and ‘Debates’ throughout the text, which highlight global cases and major talking points.
This second edition provides updated data, new studies, and more international examples. There is a considerable amount of new material, with a deeper focus on climate change. The text is fully supported with end-of-chapter summaries, discussion questions, and self-test exercises in the book, as well as a suite of supplementary digital resources, including multiple-choice questions, simulations, references, slides, and an instructor’s manual. It is adapted from the 12th edition of the best-selling Environmental and Natural Resource Economics textbook by the same authors.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface. An Overview of the Book. Acknowledgements. PART I: INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD OF NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS 1. Visions of the Future 2. The Economic Approach: Property Rights, Externalities, and Environmental Problems 3. Evaluating Trade-Offs: Benefit-Cost Analysis and Other Decision-Making Metrics 4. Valuing the Environment: Methods 5. Ecosystem Services: Nature’s Threatened Bounty 6. Dynamic Efficiency and Sustainable Development 7. Depletable Resource allocation Over Time: The Role of Longer Time Horizons, Substitutes and Extraction Cost 8. Common-Pool Resources: Commercially Valuable Fisheries 9. Forests: Storable, Renewable Resources 10. Land: A Locationally Fixed, Multipurpose Resource PART II: NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE 11. Climate Change: The Role of Energy Policy 12. Climate Change: Adaptation: Floods, Wildfires, and Water Scarcity 13. Sustainable Development: Meeting the Challenge. Answers to Self-Test Exercises. Glossary. Index.