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Harris, Jonathan M.,

Environmental and natural resource economics : a contemporary approach. / Jonathan M. Harris, Brian Roach - 5th ed. - New York : Routledge, 2023. - xi, 704 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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: Greening the Economy

Chapter 15: Population and the Environment

Chapter 16: Agriculture, Food, and Environment

Chapter 17: Nonrenewable Resources: Scarcity and Abundance

Chapter 18: Renewable Resource Use: Fisheries

Chapter 19: Forests and Land Management

Chapter 20: Water: Economics and Policy

Chapter 21: World Trade and the Environment

Chapter 22: Policies for Sustainable Development

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 includes enhanced and updated material on energy, climate change, greening the economy, population, agriculture, forests and water—reflecting the greater urgency required to solve the big environmental problems in these areas. It introduces students to both standard environmental economics and the broader perspective of ecological economics, balancing analytical techniques of environmental economics topics with a global perspective on current ecological issues such as population growth, global climate change and "green" national income accounting.

Harris and Roach’s premise is that a pluralistic approach is essential to understand the complex nexus between the economy and the environment. This perspective, combined with its emphasis on real-world policies, is particularly appealing to both instructors and students. This is the ideal text for undergraduate classes on environmental, natural resource and ecological economics, and postgraduate courses on environmental and economic policy.

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Environmental economics.
Natural resources.
Environmental policy.

333.7 / HAR