Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, 4th edition

Published by FT Publishing International (February 7, 2013) © 2013

  • Roger Perman Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde
  • Yue Ma University of Stirling
  • Michael Common University of Strathclyde
  • David Maddison UCL
  • James Mcgilvray University of Strathclyde
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Now in its 4th Edition, this book is a comprehensive and contemporary analysis of the major areas of natural resource and environmental economics. All chapters have been updated in light of new developments and changes in the subject, and provide a balance of theory, applications and examples to give a rigorous grounding in the economic analysis of the resource and environmental issues that are increasingly prominent policy concerns.

This text has been written primarily for the specialist market of second and third year undergraduate and postgraduate students of economics.

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  • 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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