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

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Boston : Pearson, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 10th EditionDescription: xxvi, 606 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm; 632 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780133479690
  • 0133479692
  • 9781292060798
Other title:
  • Environmental and natural resource economics
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.7  23 T 564
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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Includes index.

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.