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Environmental and natural resource economics / Tom Tietenberg.
By: Tietenberg, Thomas H
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BookPublisher: New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Publishers, c1992Edition: 3rd ed.Description: xxvi, 678 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0673463281.Subject(s): Environmental policy | Natural resources -- Government policy | Raw materials -- Government policyDDC classification: 333.7
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This third edition is designed to be of interest to students of environmental and natural resource economics. New chapters, an expanded emphasis on international concerns, domestic topics, and fresh coverage of older topics are covered in an applications-orientated approach.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Visions of the Future
- 2 Valuing the Environment: Concepts
- 3 Valuing the Environment: Methods
- 4 Property Rights, Externalities, and Environmental Problems
- 5 Sustainable Development: Defining the Concept
- 6 The Population Problem
- 7 The Allocation of Depletable and Renewable Resources
- 8 Depletable, Non-recyclable Energy Resources: Oil, Gas, Coal and Uranium
- 9 Recyclable Resources: Minerals, Paper, Glass, etc
- 10 Replenishable but Depletable Resources: Water
- 11 Reproducible Private-Property Resources: Agriculture
- 12 Storable, Renewable Resources: Forests
- 13 Renewable Common-Property Resources: Fisheries and Other Species
- 14 Generalized Resource Scarcity
- 15 Economics of Pollution Control: An Overview
- 16 Stationary-Source Local Air Pollution
- 17 Regional and Global Air Pollutants: Acid Rain and Atmospheric Modification
- 18 Mobile -Source Air Pollution
- 19 Water Pollution
- 20 Toxic Substances
- 21 Environmental Justice
- 22 Development, Poverty, and the Environment
- 23 The Quest for Sustainable Development
- 24 Visions of the Future Revisited