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Natural resource and environmental economics / Roger Perman, Yue Ma, James McGilvray and Michael Common

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Longman, 1996.Description: xxiii, 396 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0582368766 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Natural resource & environmental economics [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.7 PER
Contents:
*Contents* - Preface to the second edition - A personal note - Preface to the first edition - Acknowledgements - Notation - Introduction - An introduction to natural resource and environmental economics - The origins of the sustainability problem - Concepts of sustainability - Ethics and the environment - Welfare economics: efficiency and optimality - Market failure and public policy - The efficient and optimal use of environmental resources - The theory of optimal resource extraction: non-renewable resources - The theory of optimal resource extraction: renewable resources - Forest resources - Pollution control: targets - Pollution control: instruments - International environmental problems - Valuing the environment - Irreversibility, risk and uncertainty - Environmental input–output modelling - Accounting for the environment - Sources of environmental information on the internet - References - Name index - Subject index
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*Contents*
- Preface to the second edition
- A personal note
- Preface to the first edition
- Acknowledgements
- Notation
- Introduction
- An introduction to natural resource and environmental economics
- The origins of the sustainability problem
- Concepts of sustainability
- Ethics and the environment
- Welfare economics: efficiency and optimality
- Market failure and public policy
- The efficient and optimal use of environmental resources
- The theory of optimal resource extraction: non-renewable resources
- The theory of optimal resource extraction: renewable resources
- Forest resources
- Pollution control: targets
- Pollution control: instruments
- International environmental problems
- Valuing the environment
- Irreversibility, risk and uncertainty
- Environmental input–output modelling
- Accounting for the environment
- Sources of environmental information on the internet
- References
- Name index
- Subject index