Table of Contents
1. Visions of the Future.
2. Valuing the Environment: Concepts.
3. Valuing the Environment: Methods.
4. Property Rights, Externalities, and Environmental Problems.
5. Sustainable Development: Defining the Concept.
6. The Population Problem.
7. The Allocation of Depletable and Renewable Resources.
8. Depletable, Non-recyclable Energy Resources: Oil, Gas, Coal and Uranium.
9. Recyclable Resources: Minerals, Paper, Glass, etc.
10. Replenishable but Depletable Resources: Water.
11. Reproducible Private-Property Resources: Agriculture.
12. Storable, Renewable Resources: Forests.
13. Renewable Common-Property Resources: Fisheries and Other Species.
14. Generalized Resource Scarcity.
15. Economics of Pollution Control: An Overview.
16. Stationary-Source Local Air Pollution.
17. Regional and Global Air Pollutants: Acid Rain and Atmospheric Modification.
18. Mobile -Source Air Pollution.
19. Water Pollution.
20. Toxic Substances.
21. Environmental Justice.
22. Development, Poverty, and the Environment.
23. The Quest for Sustainable Development.
24. Visions of the Future Revisited.