The Economics of the Environment and Natural Resources
covers the essential topics students need to understand
environmental and resource problems and their possible solutions.
Its unique lecture format provides an in-depth exploration of
discrete topics, ideal for upper-level undergraduate, graduate or
doctoral study. Each chapter depicts the key theoretical insights,
major issues, and real-life problems that motivate the subject. In
addition, the chapters feature practical applications and case
studies, a list of annotated further reading, and extensive
references.
* * Offers broad treatment of issues in Environmental and Resource
Economics.
* Provides in-depth exploration of a wide range of topics with
its unique lecture format.
* Depicts key theoretical insights, major issues, and real-life
problems for each subject.
* Features case studies, annotated further reading, extensive
references, and a detailed glossary.
Tabella dei contenuti
List of Figures.
List of Tables.
List of Boxes.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Part I: Economics of the Environment:.
1. Models, Systems, and Dynamics.
2. Property Rights.
3. Economics of Pollution Control.
Part II: Resource Economics:.
4. Bioeconomics of Fisheries.
5. Forestry Economics.
6. Water Economics.
7. Economics of Non-renewable Resources.
Part III: Environmental Valuation:.
8. Environmental Valuation: Introduction and Theory.
9. Environmental Valuation: Stated Preference Methods.
10. Environmental Values Expressed Through Market Behavior.
Part IV: Global Environment:.
11. Growth and the Environment.
12. Environmental Accounting.
13. Trade and Environment.
14. The Global Commons.
15. Biodiversity.
16. Sustaining the Environment.
Glossary.
Index
Circa l’autore
R. Quentin Grafton is a Senior Fellow at the Centre of
Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National
University and formerly the Director of the Institute of the
Environment at the University of Ottawa. He is the author or
co-author of four other books (including a Dictionary of
Environmental Economics, Science, and Policy) and has published
numerous journal articles in the area of environmental and resource
environmental economics.
Wiktor Adamowicz is a Canada Research Chair
(Environmental Economics) and Professor in the Department of Rural
Economy, University of Alberta, Canada. He has published widely in
resource and environmental economics and acted as an advisor on
numerous environmental valuation and natural resource damage
assessment cases.
Diane Dupont is a Professor in the Economics Department,
Brock University, Canada. Her research has spanned both natural
resources and environmental economics, and she has published in
journals such as Environmental and Resource Economics,
Marine Resource Economics, Journal of Environmental
Economics and Management and American Journal of
Agricultural Economics.
Harry Nelson is a Senior Research Associate at the Forest
Economics and Policy Analysis Unit of the University of British
Columbia. Dr Nelson has written extensively in the area of forestry
economics and has acted as a consultant to the Canadian Department
of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and Environment Canada,
as well as undertaken work for NGOs and American Indian Tribes and
Canadian First Nations.
Robert J. Hill is an Associate Professor in the School of
Economics at the University of New South Wales in Sydney,
Australia. He has published widely in leading economics journals
including International Economic Review, Review of
Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review,
Journal of Public Economics, and Economic
Inquiry.Steven Renzetti is a Professor of Economics at
Brock University, Canada.
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