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

Table of Contents

Preface

1 Visions of the Future 1

2 The Economic Approach: Property Rights, Externalities,
and Environmental Problems 15

3 Evaluating Trade-Offs: Benefit-Cost Analysis and Other
Decision-Making Metrics 49

4 Valuing the Environment: Methods 79

5 Dynamic Efficiency and Sustainable Development 109

6 Depletable Resource Allocation: The Role of Longer Time Horizons, Substitutes, and Extraction Cost 127

7 Energy: The Transition from Depletable to Renewable Resources 151

8 Recyclable Resources: Minerals, Paper, Bottles, and E-Waste 195

9 Replenishable but Depletable Resources: Water 223

10 A Locationally Fixed, Multipurpose Resource: Land 259

11 Reproducible Private Property Resources: Agriculture and Food Security 287

12 Storable, Renewable Resources: Forests 321

13 Common-Pool Resources: Fisheries and Other Commercially Valuable Species 349

14 Economics of Pollution Control: An Overview 391

15 Stationary-Source Local and Regional Air Pollution 431

16 Climate Change 459

17 Mobile-Source Air Pollution 479

18 Water Pollution 511

19 Toxic Substances and Environmental Justice 549

20 Population and Development 581

Glossary 609

Index 621


Includes bibliographical references and indexes.