| Edition |
10th ed. |
| Description |
632 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
Global edition |
| Contents |
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 Economics of pollution control : an overview -- 15 Stationary-source local and regional air pollution -- 16 Climate change -- 17 Mobile-source air pollution -- 18 Water pollution -- 19 Toxic substances and environmental justice -- 20 The quest for sustainable development -- 21 Visions of the future revisited |
| Subject |
Environmental economics
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Environmental policy
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Natural resources -- Government policy
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Raw materials -- Government policy
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| Alt Author |
Lewis, Lynne
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| Alt Title |
Environmental and natural resource economics |
| ISBN |
9781292060798 (pbk.) |
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