Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, 8/e  takes a policy-oriented approach, introducing economic theory in the context of debates and empirical work from the field. Students leave the course with a global perspective of both environmental and natural resource economics. Visions of the Future; Valuing the Environment: Concepts; Valuing the Environment: Methods; Property Rights, Externalities, and Environmental Problems; Dynamic Efficiency and Sustainable Development; The Population Problem; The Allocation of Depletable and Renewable Resources: An Overview; Energy: the Transition From Depletable to Renewable Resources; Recyclable Resources: Minerals, Paper, Bottles, and E-Waste; Replenishable but Depletable Resources: Water; Land; Reproducible Private-Property Resources: Agriculture; Storable, Renewable Resources: Forests; Common-Pool Resources: Fisheries and Other Commercially Valuable Species; Economics of Pollution Control: An Overview; Stationary-Source Local Air Pollution; Regional and Global Air Pollutants: Acid Rain and Atmospheric Modification; Mobile-Source Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Toxic Substances; Environmental Justice; Development, Poverty, and the Environment; The Quest for Sustainable Development; Visions of the Future Revisited. For all readers interested in environmental and natural resource economics.

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 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.

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