5th Edition

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics A Contemporary Approach - International Student Edition

By Jonathan M. Harris, Brian Roach Copyright 2022
716 Pages 174 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Environmental issues are of fundamental importance, and a broad approach to understanding the relationship between the human economy and the natural world is essential. In a rapidly changing policy and scientific context, this new edition of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics reflects an updated perspective on modern environmental topics. Now in its fifth edition, this textbook... Read more

Chapter 1: Changing Perspectives on the Environment

Chapter 2: Resources, Environment, and Economic Development

Chapter 3: The Theory of Environmental Externalities

Chapter 4: Common Property Resources and Public Goods

Chapter 5: Resource Allocation Over Time

Chapter 6: Valuing the Environment

Chapter 7: Cost-Benefit Analysis

Chapter 8: Pollution: Analysis and Policy

Chapter 9: Ecological Economics: Basic Concepts

Chapter 10: National Income and Environmental Accounting

Chapter 11: Energy: The Great Transition

Chapter 12: Global Climate Change: Science and Economics

Chapter 13: Global Climate Change: Policy Responses

Chapter 14: The Green Economy

Chapter 15: Population and the Environment

Chapter 16: Agriculture, Food and Environment

Chapter 17: Resources: Scarcity and Abundance

Chapter 18: Renewable Resource Use: Fisheries

Chapter 19: Forest and Land Management

Chapter 20: Water: Economics and Policy

Chapter 21: World Trade and the Environment

Chapter 22: Policies for Sustainable Development

Biography

Jonathan M. Harris is Senior Researcher at the Tufts University Global Development and Environment Institute and Senior Research Fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center Economics in Context Initiative. His current research focuses on the implications of large-scale environmental problems, especially global climate change, for macroeconomic theory and policy.

Brian Roach is Director of the Theory and Education Program at the Tufts University Global Development and Environment Institute and Senior Research Fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center Economics in Context Initiative. His work has focused on the valuation of natural resources, and he has taught environmental economics at the graduate and undergraduate levels.