Natural resource and environmental economics / Roger Perman ... [et al.].
Contributor(s): Perman, Roger
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BookPublisher: Harlow : Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2003Edition: 3rd ed.Description: 600 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0273655590; 9780273655596.Subject(s): Natural resources | Environmental economics | Natural resources -- Management | Sustainable development | Environmental economics | Macroeconomics | Environment and EcologyDDC classification: 333.7 NAT Summary: This third edition follows in the vein of previous editions and continues to provide a comprehensive and clear account of the application of economic analysis to environmental issues. This new edition has been updated to reflect recent developments in environmental issues and policies.
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| General lending | MTU Kerry North Campus Library Store | 333.7 NAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | Available on Top Floor of the Library. | 38888000778385 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This edition provides clear explanations and basic principles that underpin the text, which should make it readily accessible to non-economists coming to environmental economics from diverse programmes of study.
Previous ed.: London: Longman, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This third edition follows in the vein of previous editions and continues to provide a comprehensive and clear account of the application of economic analysis to environmental issues. This new edition has been updated to reflect recent developments in environmental issues and policies.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction
- An Introduction to Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
- The Origins of the Sustainability Problem
- Concepts of Sustainability
- Ethics and the Environment
- Part 1 Ethical Foundations for Environmental Economics
- Part 2 Utilitarianism and Discounting
- Part 3 Ethics and Sustainable Development
- Welfare Economics: Efficiency and Optimality
- Part 1 Efficiency and Resource Allocation
- Part 2 Achieving an Efficient Allocation in a Market Economy
- Part 3 Using Marginal Analysis to Understand Economic Efficiency
- Market Failure and Public Policy
- Part 1 Market Failure
- Part 2 Cost-benefit Analysis
- The Efficient and Optimal use of Environmental Resources
- Part 1 A Simple Optimal Resource Depletion Model
- Part 2 Extending the Model to Incorporate Extraction Costs and Renewable Resources
- The Theory of Optimal Resource Extraction: Non-renewable Resources
- The Theory of Optimal Resource Extraction: Renewable Resources
- Forest Resource
- Pollution Control: Targets
- Pollution Control: Instruments
- International Environmental Problems
- Valuing the Environment
- Irreversibility, Risk and Uncertainty
- Environmental Input-output Modelling
- Accounting for the Environment