Environmental & Natural Resource Economics, 10th Edition

For courses in environmental economics

Environmental & 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 perspective of both environmental and natural resource economics.

• Gain flexibility in your course outlines: The text is organized, so that you can fit individual course outlines.
• Use relevant material: Students identify with up-to-date information, which gives them a global perspective on key issues.
• Engage students with self- test exercises, debates and examples: Students are able to prepare for their field and learn from an active learning path, which allows them to grasp concepts before moving though the text.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Visions of the Future
Chapter 2 The Economic Approach: Property Rights, Externalities, and Environmental Problems
Chapter 3 Evaluating Trade-Offs: Benefit-Cost Analysis and Other Decision-Making Metrics
Chapter 4 Valuing the Environment: Methods
Chapter 5 Dynamic Efficiency and Sustainable Development
Chapter 6 Depletable Resource Allocation: The Role of Longer Time Horizons, Substitutes, and Extraction Cost
Chapter 7 Energy: The Transition fromDepletable to RenewableResources
Chapter 8 Recyclable Resources: Minerals, Paper, Bottles, and E-Waste
Chapter 9 Water: A Confluence of Renewable and Depletable Resources
Chapter 10 A Locationally Fixed, Multipurpose Resource: Land
Chapter 11 Storable, Renewable Resources: Forests
Chapter 12 Common-Pool Resources: Commercially Valuable Fisheries
Chapter 13 Ecosystem Goodsand Services: Nature’sThreatened Bounty
Chapter 14 Economics of Pollution Control: An Overview
Chapter 15 Stationary-Source Local and Regional Air Pollution
Chapter 16 Climate Change
Chapter 17 Mobile-Source Air Pollution
Chapter 18 Water Pollution
Chapter 19 Toxic Substances and Environmental Justice
Chapter 20 The Quest for Sustainable Development
Chapter 21 Visions of the Future Revisited