Lynne Lewis, Tom Tietenberg

Natural Resource Economics

The Essentials

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Natural Resource Economics: The Essentials offers a policy-oriented approach to the increasingly influential field of natural resource economics that is based upon a solid foundation of economic theory and empirical research. This second edition provides updated data, new studies, and more international examples.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2024
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032689098
• ISBN-10: 1032689099
• Artikelnr.: 70147252

Autorenporträt

Tom Tietenberg is the Mitchell Family Professor of Economics, Emeritus at Colby College, Maine, USA. Lynne Lewis is Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University, Colorado USA and Elmer W. Campbell Professor of Economics Emeritus at Bates College, Maine, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. An Overview of the Book. Acknowledgements. PART I: INTRODUCTION TO
THE FIELD OF NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS 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. Ecosystem
Services: Nature's Threatened Bounty 6. Dynamic Efficiency and Sustainable
Development 7. Depletable Resource allocation Over Time: The Role of Longer
Time Horizons, Substitutes and Extraction Cost 8. Common-Pool Resources:
Commercially Valuable Fisheries 9. Forests: Storable, Renewable Resources
10. Land: A Locationally Fixed, Multipurpose Resource PART II: NATURAL
RESOURCE ECONOMICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE 11. Climate Change: The Role of
Energy Policy 12. Climate Change: Adaptation: Floods, Wildfires, and Water
Scarcity 13. Sustainable Development: Meeting the Challenge. Answers to
Self-Test Exercises. Glossary. Index.