Environmental & natural resource economics

Environmental & natural resource economics

by Tietenberg, Thomas H.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Environmental & natural resource economics / Tom Tietenberg, Emeritus, Colby College, Lynne Lewis, Bates College.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2016
  • Edition:10th edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Pearson
  • Place of Publication:Boston
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2016

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xxvi, 606 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780133479690, 0133479692
  • oclc:ocn961826985
  • LC Classification:HC79.E5
  • Dewey Decimal:333.7

Table of Contents

Preface -- Visions of the future -- The economic approach : property rights, externalities, and environmental problems -- Evaluating trade-offs : benefit-cost analysis and other decision-making metrics -- Valuing the environment : methods -- Dynamic efficiency and sustainable development -- Depletable resource allocation : the role of longer time horizons, substitutes, and extraction cost -- Energy : the transition from depletable to renewable resources -- Recyclable resources : minerals, paper, bottles, and e-waste -- Water : a confluence of renewable and depletable resources -- A locationally fixed, multipurpose resource : land -- Storable, renewable resources : forests -- Common-pool resources : commercially valuable fisheries -- Ecosystem goods and services : nature's threatened bounty -- Economics of pollution control : an overview -- Stationary-source local and regional air pollution -- Climate change -- Mobile-source air pollution -- Water pollution -- Toxic substances and environmental justice -- The quest for sustainable development -- Visions of the future revisited -- Answers to self-test exercises -- Glossary -- Name index -- Subject index.

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