Buch, Englisch, 430 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 884 g
Buch, Englisch, 430 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 884 g
ISBN: 978-0-367-28034-5
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 examples and major points for deeper discussions.
The text is fully supported with end-of-chapter summaries, discussion questions, and self-test exercises in the book, as well as with multiple-choice questions, simulations, references, slides, and an instructor’s manual on the Companion Website. This text is adapted from the best-selling Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, 11th edition, by the same authors.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Preface. An Overview of the Book. 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. Dynamic Efficiency and Sustainable Development. 6. Depletable Resource Allocation: The Role of Longer Time Horizons, Substitutes, and Extraction Cost. 7. Energy: The Transition from Depletable to Renewable Resources. 8. Recyclable Resources: Minerals, Paper, Bottles, and E-Waste. 9. Water: A Confluence of Renewable and Depletable Resources. 10. A Locationally Fixed, Multipurpose Resource: Land. 11. Storable, Renewable Resources: Forests. 12. Common-Pool Resources: Commercially Valuable Fisheries. 13. Ecosystem Goods and Services: Nature’s Threatened Bounty. 14. The Quest for Sustainable Development. 15. Visions of the Future Revisited. Answers to Self-Test Exercises. Glossary. Index