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Natural resource and environmental economics / Roger Perman, Yue Ma, James McGilvray.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; New York : Addison Wesley 1996.Description: xxv, 699p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780273655596
Other title:
  • Natural resource & environmental economics [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.7 22 PER
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Table of contents

Part I Foundations

Chapter 1 An introduction to natural resource and environmental economics 3-15
Chapter 2 The origins of the accountability problem 16-54
Chapter 3 Ethics, Economics and the environment 56-80
Chapter 4 Concepts of sustainability 82-104
Chapter 5 Welfare economics and the environment 105-153

Part II Environmental Pollution

Chapter 6 Pollution Control: targets165-201
Chapter 7 Pollution control: instruments 202-242
Chapter 8 Pollution policy with imperfect information 247-268
Chapter 9 Economy-wide modelling 269- 295
Chapter 10 International environmental problems 297-346

Part III Project appraisal

Chapter 11 cost-benefit analysis 351-395
Chapter 12 Valuing the environment 399-442
Chapter 13 Irreversibility, risk and uncertainty 444-468

Part IV Natural resource exploitation

Chapter 14 The efficient and optimal use of natural resources 473-504
Chapter 15 The theory of optimal resource extraction: non-renewable resources 506-536
Chapter 16 Stock pollution problems 537-554
Chapter 17 Renewable resources 555-596
Chapter 18 Forest resources598-623
Chapter 19 Accounting for the environment 626-666
References 671
Index 689



Includes bibliographical references (p. [378]-388) and indexes.

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