Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, 4th edition

Published by FT Publishing International (February 7, 2013) © 2014

  • 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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Title overview

Now in its fourth edition, Natural Resources and Environmental Economics, provides comprehensive and contemporary analysis of the major areas of natural resource and environmental economics.

All chapters have been fully 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 is suitable for second and third year undergraduate and postgraduate students of economics.

This edition includes a Companion Website.

Table of contents

  1. 1: An introduction to natural resource and environmental economics
  2. 2: The origins of the sustainability problem
  3. 3: Ethics, economics and the environment
  4. 4: Welfare economics and the environment
  5. 5 Pollution control: targets
  6. 6: Pollution control: instruments
  7. 7: Pollution policy with imperfect information
  8. 8 Economy-wide modelling
  9. 9: International environmental problems
  10. 10: Trade and the Environment
  11. 11: Cost-benefit analysis
  12. 12 Valuing the environment
  13. 13 Irreversibility, risk and uncertainty
  14. 14: The efficient and optimal use of natural resources
  15. 15: The theory of optimal resource extraction: non-renewable resources
  16. 16: Stock pollution problems
  17. 17: Renewable resources
  18. 18: Forest resources
  19. 19: Accounting for the environment

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