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'Environmental and Natural Resource Economics' takes a policy-oriented approach, introducing economic theory in the context of debates and empirical work from the field. The eighth edition integrates a theme of sustainability and includes a new chapter on the economics of land allocation and land use conversion.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Chapter 1 Visions of the Future
• Introduction
• Future Environmental Challenges
• Meeting the Challenges
• How Will Societies Respond?
• The Role of Economics
• The Road Ahead
• Chapter 2 Valuing the Environment: Concepts
• Introduction
• The Human Environment Relationship
• Normative Criteria for Decision-Making
• Finding the Optimal Outcome
• Applying the Concepts
• Appendix: The Simple Mathematics of Dynamic Efficiency
• Chapter 3 Valuing the Environment: Methods
• Introduction
• Why Value the Environment?
• Valuing Benefits
• Cost-Effectiveness
• Analysis Impact Analysis
• Chapter 4 Property Rights, Externalities, and Environmental Problems
• Introduction
• Property Rights
• Externalities as a Source of Market Failure
• Improperly Designed
• Property Rights Systems
• Public Goods
• Imperfect Market Structures
• Divergence of Social and Private Discount Rates Government Failure
• The Pursuit of Efficiency
• An Efficient Role for Government
• Chapter 5 Dynamic Efficiency and Sustainable Development
• Introduction
• A Two-Period Model Defining
• Intertemporal Fairness
• Are Efficient Allocations Fair?
• Applying the Sustainability Criterion
• Implications for Environmental Policy
• Appendix:The Mathematics of the Two-Period Model
• Chapter 6 The Population Problem
• Introduction
• Historical Perspective Effects of Population Growth on Economic Development
• The Population/Environment Connection Effects of Economic Development on Population Growth
• The Economic Approach to Population Control Urbanization
• A Note on Using GIS to Map Population Data
• Chapter 7 The Allocation of Depletable and Renewable Resources: An Overview
• Introduction
• A Resource Taxonomy Efficient Intertemporal
• Allocations Market
• Allocations
• Appendix:Extensions of the Basic Depletable Resource Model
• Chapter 8 Energy: The Transition from Depletable to Renewable Resources
• Introduction
• Natural Gas
• Price Controls Oil
• The Cartel Problem Fossil Fuels
• National Security and Climate Considerations
• The Other Depletable Sources
• Unconventional Oil, Coal and Nuclear Electricity Energy
• Efficiency Transitioning to Renewables
• Chapter 9 Recyclable Resources: Minerals, Paper, Bottles, and E-Waste
• Introduction
• An Efficient Allocation of Recyclable Resources
• Factors Mitigating Resource
• Scarcity Market Imperfections
• Chapter 10 Replenishable but Depletable Resources: Water
• Introduction
• The Potential for Water Scarcity
• The Efficient Allocation of Scarce Water
• The Current Allocation System
• Potential Remedies GIS and Water Resources
• Chapter 11 Land
• Introduction
• The Economics of Land Allocation
• Sources of Inefficient
• Use and Conversion
• Special Problems in Developing Countries
• Innovative Market-Based Policy Remedies
• Chapter 12 Reproducible Private-Property Resources: Agriculture
• Introduction
• Global Scarcity
• Formulating the Global Scarcity Hypothesis
• Testing the Hypothesis
• The Role of Agricultural Policies
• A Summing Up Distribution of Food Resources Feast and Famine Cycles
• Chapter 13 Storable, Renewable Resources: Forests
• Introduction
• Characterizing Forest Harvesting Decisions
• Sources of Inefficiency
• Poverty and Debt
• Sustainable Forestry Public Policy
• Appendix:The Harvesting Decision: Forests
• Chapter 14 Common-Pool Resources: Fisheries and Other Commercially Valuable Species Introduction
• Efficient Allocations
• Appropriability and Market Solutions
• Public Policy Toward Fisheries
• Appendix:The Harvesting Decision: Fisheries
• Chapter 15 Economics of Pollution Control: An Overview
• Introduction
• A Pollutant Taxonomy Defining the Efficient Allocation of Pol