Environmental and natural resource economics /

• Main Author: Tietenberg, Thomas H., 1942-
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Reaging, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 2000
• Edition: 5th ed.
• Subjects: ECONOMIA DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE; POLITICA DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE; RECURSOS NATURALES; DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE; RECURSOS RENOVABLES; RECURSOS ENERGETICOS; CONTAMINACION; ECONOMIA AMBIENTAL; POLITICA AMBIENTAL; DESARROLLO SUSTENTABLE; POLUCION

Table of Contents:

• 1. Visions of the future. 2. Valuing the environment: concepts. 3. Valuing the environment: methods. 4. Property rights, externalities, and environmental problems. 5. Sustainable development: defining the concept. 6. The population problem. 7. The allocation of depletable and renewable resources: an overview. 8. Depletable, nonrecyclable energy resources: oil, gas, coal, and uranium. 9. Recyclable resources: minerals, paper, glass, etc. 10. Replenishable but depletable resources: water. 11. Reproducible private-property resources: agriculture. 12. Storable, renewable resources: forests. 13. Renewable common-property resources: fisheries and other species. 14. Generalized resource scarcity. 15. Economics of pollution control: an overview. 16. Stationary-source local air pollution. 17. Regional and global air pollutants : acid rain and atmospheric modification. 18. Mobile-source air pollution. 19. Pollution. 20. Toxic substances. 21. Environmental justice. 22. Development, poverty, and the environment. 23. The quest for sustainable development. 24. Visions of the future revisited. Problem set answers.