Resource and Environmental Economics

This important book deals with the essential principles of resource and environmental economics, provides applications to contemporary issues in this field, and outlines and assesses policies being used or proposed for managing the use of environmental and natural resources. Covering specific contemporary topics such as agriculture and the environment, water use, greenhouse gas management, biodiversity conservation, tourism and the environment, and environmental economics and health, leading issues in resource and environmental economics are outlined and analyzed in an innovative manner. Institutional economics (both new and traditional) is applied and compared with other approaches such as neoclassical economics, behavioral economics and the Austrian School of Economics. This heterogeneous, multi-perspective approach enables problems to be considered from several different angles, thus enhancing the reader's comprehension of the subject matter. Furthermore, using minimal technical jargon, the book takes into account aspects of modern economic analysis such as the costs of and constraints on decision-making and the transaction costs involved in policy implementation.
Contents:General Issues:The Nature and Significance of Resource and Environmental EconomicsDifferent Types of Approaches to Environmental and Resource EconomicsEconomic Failure in Using Resources and the EnvironmentProperty Rights, Laws, Markets and Resource UseRegulating Natural Resource Use and Pollution EmissionsEconomic Valuation of Environmental Spillovers and Natural ResourcesSustainability as an Environmental and Economic IssueMore Specific Topics:Agriculture, Agricultural Policies and the EnvironmentWater ManagementBiodiversity ConservationGlobal Warming, Energy Use and Air PollutionRecycling and Solid Waste ManagementHealth and Environmental Economics
Readership: Academics, undergraduates and graduate students in environmental economics, natural resource economics, ecological economics, environmental management and policy studies.