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Harris, Jonathan M.,

Environmental and natural resource economics : a contemporary approach / Jonathan M. Harris and Brian Roach. - 4th Edition. - pages cm

Revised edition of the authors' Environmental and natural resource economics, c2013. Includes index.

1.Introduction: the economy and the environment --
2.Changing perspectives on the environment --
3.Resources, environment, and economic development --
4.Economic analysis of environmental issues --
5.The theory of environmental externalities --
6.Common property resources and public goods --
7.Resource allocation over time --
8.Valuing the environment --
9.Cost-benefit analysis --
10.Pollution: analysis and policy --
11.Ecological economics and environmental accounting --
12.Ecological economics: basic concepts --
13.National income and environmental accounting --
14.Energy, climate change, and greening the economy --
15.Energy: the great transition --
16.Global climate change: science and analysis --
17.Global climate change: policy responses --
18.The green economy --
19.Population, agriculture, and resources --
20.Population and the environment --
21.Agriculture, food and environment --
22.Resources : scarcity and abundance --
23.Renewable resource use : fisheries --
24.Ecosystem management : forest ecosystems --
25.Water systems --
26.Environment, trade, and development --
27.World trade and the environment --
28.Institutions for sustainable development -- Index.

ISBN: 9781138659476 (hardback)

LCCN: 2016052353

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Environmental economics.
Natural resources.
Environmental policy.

LC Class. No.: HC79.E5 / H356 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 333.7