Environmental & natural resource economics / Tom Tietenberg, Lynne Lewis.

Table of Contents

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 Pollution
Market Allocation of Pollution
Efficient Policy Responses
Cost-Effective Policies for Uniformly Mixed Fund Pollutants
Cost-Effective Policies for Nonuniformly Mixed Surface Pollutants
Other Policy Dimensions
Appendix:The Simple Mathematics of Cost-Effective Pollution Control

Chapter 16. Stationary-Source Local Air Pollution

Introduction
Conventional Pollutants
Innovative Approaches

Chapter 17. Regional and Global Air Pollutants: Acid Rain and Atmospheric Modification

Introduction
Regional Pollutants
Global Pollutant

Chapter 18. Mobile-Source Air Pollution

Introduction
The Economics of Mobile-Source Pollution
Policy Toward Mobile Sources
An Economic and Political Assessment

Chapter 19. Water Pollution

Introduction
Nature of Water Pollution Problems
Traditional Water Pollution Control Policy
Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness

Chapter 20. Toxic Substances

Introduction
Market Allocations and Toxic Substances
Current Policy
An Assessment of the Legal Remedies

Chapter 21. Environmental Justice

Introduction
The Incidence of Hazardous Waste Siting Decisions
The Incidence of Pollution Control Costs: Individual Industries
The Generation of Pollutants
The Incidence on Households
Implications for Policy

Chapter 22. Development, Poverty, and the Environment

Introduction
The Growth Process
Energy
Outlook for the Near Future
The Growth-Development Relationship
Growth and Poverty: The Industrialized Nations
Poverty in the Less Industrialized Nations

Chapter 23. The Quest for Sustainable Development

Introduction
Sustainability of Development
Managing the Transition

Chapter 24. Visions of the Future Revisited

Addressing the Issues
Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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