Environmental y natural resource economics
For courses in environmental economics Environmental y Natural Resource Economics is the best-selling text for this course, offering a policy-oriented approach and introducing economic theory in the context of debates and empirical work from the field. You will leave the course with a global persp...
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| Format: | Kit |
| Language: | Spanish English |
| Edition: | 10a ed. |
| Series: | The Pearson Series in Economics
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Visions of the Future 1 2 The Economic Approach: Property Rights, Externalities, and Environmental Problems 15 3 Evaluating Trade-Offs: Benefit-Cost Analysis and Other Decision-Making Metrics 46 4 Valuing the Environment: Methods 73 5 Dynamic Efficiency and Sustainable Development 105 6 Depletable Resource Allocation: The Role of Longer Time Horizons, Substitutes, and Extraction Cost 122 7 Energy: The Transition from Depletable to Renewable Resources 145 8 Recyclable Resources: Minerals, Paper, Bottles, and E-Waste 173 9 Water: A Confluence of Renewable and Depletable Resources 200 10 A Locationally Fixed, Multipurpose Resource: Land 234 11 Storable, Renewable Resources: Forests 254 12 Common-Pool Resources: Commercially Valuable Fisheries 278 13 Ecosystem Goods and Services: Nature?s Threatened Bounty 316 14 Economics of Pollution Control: An Overview 343 15 Stationary-Source Local and Regional Air Pollution 378 16 Climate Change 399 17 Mobile-Source Air Pollution 420 18 Water Pollution 445 19 Toxic Substances and Environmental Justice 480 20 The Quest for Sustainable Development 508 21 Visions of the Future Revisited 531 Answers to self-Test Exercises 541 Glossary 564 Name Index 575 Subject Index 582