Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
by Perman, Roger; Perman, Roger; Ma, Yue; Common, Michael; Maddison, David; Mcgilvray, JamesEdition: 4th
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Pub. Date: 2011-07-21
Publisher(s): Pearson
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Summary
This text balances theory, applications and examples to give a rigorous groundingof the major areas of natural resource and environmental economics.
Author Biography
Roger Perman is Senior Lecturer in Economics, Strathclyde University. His major research interests and publications are in the field of applied econometrics and environmental economics.
Michael Common is Professor in the Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Strathclyde University. His major research interests are the development of ecological economics and policies for sustainability.
Yue Ma is Associate Professor in Economics, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and Adjunct Professor of Lingnan College, Zhongshan University, China. His major research interests are international banking and finance, as well as environmental economics for developing countries.
David Maddison is Professor of Economics at the University of Birmingham
The late James McGilvray was Professor of Economics at Strathclyde University. He made important contributions in the fields of input-output analysis, social accounting and economic statistics, and to the study of the economics of transition in Central and Eastern Europe.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: An introduction to natural resource and environmental economics
Chapter 2: The origins of the sustainability problem
Chapter 3: Ethics, economics and the environment
Chapter 4: Welfare economics and the environment
Chapter 5: Pollution control: targets
Chapter 6: Pollution control: instruments
Chapter 7: Pollution policy with imperfect information
Chapter 8: Economy-wide modelling
Chapter 9: International environmental problems
Chapter 10: Trade and the Environment
Chapter 11: Cost-benefit analysis
Chapter 12: Valuing the environment
Chapter 13: Irreversibility, risk and uncertainty
Chapter 14: The efficient and optimal use of natural resources
Chapter 15: The theory of optimal resource extraction: non-renewable resources
Chapter 16: Stock pollution problems
Chapter 17: Renewable resources
Chapter 18: Forest resources
Chapter 19: Accounting for the environment
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