TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tietenberg, Tom
AU  - Lewis, Lynne
TI  - Environmental and natural resources economics
SN  - 9781138632301
U1  - 333.7 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Environmental policy
KW  - Raw materials--Government policy
KW  - Natural resources--Government policy
KW  - Environmental economics
N1  - Table of Contents
1. Visions of the Future

2. The Economic Approach: Property Rights, Externalities, and Environmental Problems

3. Evaluating Trade-Offs: Benefit-Cost Analysis and Other Decision-Making Metrics

4. Valuing the Environment: Methods

5. Dynamic Efficiency and Sustainable Development

6. Depletable Resource Allocation: The Role of Longer Time Horizons, Substitutes, and Extraction Cost

7. Energy: The Transition from Depletable to Renewable Resources

8. Recyclable Resources: Minerals, Paper, Bottles, and E-Waste

9. Water: A Confluence of Renewable and Depletable Resources

10. A Locationally Fixed, Multipurpose Resource: Land

11. Storable, Renewable Resources: Forests

12. Common-Pool Resources: Commercially Valuable Fisheries

13. Ecosystem Goods and Services: Nature's Threatened Bounty

14. Economics of Pollution Control: An Overview

15. Stationary-Source Local and Regional Air Pollution

16. Climate Change

17. Mobile-Source Air Pollution

18. Water Pollution

19. Toxic Substances and Environmental Justice

20. The Quest for Sustainable Development

21. Visions of the Future Revisited
N2  - Book Description

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics is the best-selling text for natural resource economics and environmental economics courses, offering a policy-oriented approach and introducing economic theory and empirical work from the field. Students will leave the course with a global perspective of both environmental and natural resource economics and how they interact. Complemented by a number of case studies showing how underlying economic principles provided the foundation for specific environmental and resource policies, this key text highlights what can be learned from the actual experience. This new, 11th edition includes updated data, a number of new studies and brings a more international focus to the subject. Key features include:

Extensive coverage of the major issues including climate change, air and water pollution, sustainable development, and environmental justice.
Dedicated chapters on a full range of resources including water, land, forests, fisheries, and recyclables.
Introductions to the theory and method of environmental economics including externalities, benefit-cost analysis, valuation methods, and ecosystem goods and services.
Boxed ‘Examples’ and ‘Debates’ throughout the text which highlight global examples and major talking points
ER  -