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- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface to the Fifth Edition
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Changing Perspectives on the Environment
- 1.1 Overview of Environmental Issues
- 1.2 Economic Approaches to the Environment
- 1.3 Principles of Ecological Economics
- 1.4 A Look Ahead
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- 2 Resources, Environment, and Economic Development
- 2.1 Overview of Economic Growth
- 2.2 Economic Growth in Recent Decades
- 2.3 Environmental Trends in Recent Decades
- 2.4 Optimists and Pessimists
- 2.5 Sustainable Development
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- 3 The Theory of Environmental Externalities
- 3.1 The Theory of Externalities
- 3.2 Welfare Analysis of Externalities
- 3.3 Property Rights and the Environment
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- Exercises
- The Theory of Demand
- The Theory of Supply
- Market Analysis
- Elasticity of Demand and Supply
- Welfare Analysis
- Formal Presentation of Externality Welfare Analysis
- Negative Externalities—a Mathematical Approach
- Welfare Analysis of Positive Externalities
- Key Terms and Concepts from Appendices
- 4 Common Property Resources and Public Goods
- 4.1 Common Property, Open Access, and Property Rights
- 4.2 The Environment as a Public Good
- 4.3 The Global Commons
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- Exercises
- 5 Resource Allocation Over Time
- 5.1 Allocation of Nonrenewable Resources
- 5.2 Hotelling’s Rule and Time Discounting
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- Exercises
- 6 Valuing the Environment
- 6.1 Total Economic Value
- 6.2 Overview of Valuation Techniques
- 6.3 Revealed Preference Methods
- 6.4 Stated Preference Methods
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- 7 Cost–Benefit Analysis
- 7.1 Overview of Cost–Benefit Analysis
- 7.2 Balancing the Present and Future: The Discount Rate
- 7.3 Valuing Human Life
- 7.4 Other Issues in Cost–Benefit Analysis
- 7.5 Cost–Benefit Analysis Example
- 7.6 Conclusion: The Role of Cost–Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy Decisions
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- Exercise
- 8 Pollution: Analysis and Policy
- 8.1 The Economics of Pollution Control
- 8.2 Policies for Pollution Control
- 8.3 The Scale of Pollution Impacts
- 8.4 Assessing Pollution Control Policies
- 8.5 Pollution Control Policies in Practice
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- Exercise
- 9 Ecological Economics: Basic Concepts
- 9.1 An Ecological Perspective
- 9.2 Natural Capital
- 9.3 Issues of Macroeconomic Scale
- 9.4 Long-Term Sustainability
- 9.5 Energy and Entropy
- 9.6 Ecological Economics and Policy
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- 10 National Income and Environmental Accounting
- 10.1 Greening the National Income Accounts
- 10.2 Green GDP
- 10.3 Adjusted Net Saving
- 10.4 The Genuine Progress Indicator
- 10.5 The Better Life Index
- 10.6 Environmental Asset Accounts
- 10.7 Evaluating Alternative Indicators
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- Exercise
- Adjusting for Depreciation, Population Growth, and Inflation
- Comparing GDP for Different Countries
- Key Terms and Concepts for Appendix 10.1
- 11 Energy: The Great Transition
- 11.1 Four Global Energy Challenges
- 11.2 Nonrenewable Energy Sources
- 11.3 Renewable Energy Sources
- 11.4 Energy Economics: Current Analyses and Alternative Futures
- 11.5 Policies for the Great Energy Transition
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- 12 Global Climate Change: Science and Economics
- 12.1 Causes and Consequences of Climate Change
- 12.2 Responses to Global Climate Change
- 12.3 Economic Analysis of Climate Change
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- 13 Global Climate Change: Policy Responses
- 13.1 Responding to a Climate Emergency
- 13.2 Climate Change Mitigation: Economic Policy Options
- 13.3 Getting to Net-Zero Emissions
- 13.4 Climate Change Policy in Practice
- 13.5 Other Climate Issues: Adaptation and Equity
- 13.6 Conclusion: Dimensions of Climate Policy
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- Exercises
- 14 Greening the Economy
- 14.1 The Green Economy: Introduction
- 14.2 The Relationship between the Economy and the Environment
- 14.3 Industrial Ecology
- 14.4 Does Protecting the Environment Harm the Economy?
- 14.5 Creating a Green Economy
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- 15 Population and the Environment
- 15.1 The Dynamics of Population Growth
- 15.2 Predicting Future Population Growth
- 15.3 The Theory of Demographic Transition
- 15.4 Population Growth and Economic Growth
- 15.5 Ecological Perspectives on Population Growth
- 15.6 Population Policies for the Twenty-First Century
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- 16 Agriculture, Food, and Environment
- 16.1 Feeding the World: Population and Food Supply
- 16.2 Trends in Global Food Production
- 16.3 Projections for the Future
- 16.4 Agriculture’s Impact on the Environment
- 16.5 Sustainable Agriculture for the Future
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- 17 Nonrenewable Resources: Scarcity and Abundance
- 17.1 The Supply of Nonrenewable Resources
- 17.2 Economic Theory of Nonrenewable Resource Use
- 17.3 Global Scarcity or Increasing Abundance?
- 17.4 Environmental Impacts of Mining
- 17.5 The Potential for Minerals Recycling
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- 18 Renewable Resource Use: Fisheries
- 18.1 Principles of Renewable Resource Management
- 18.2 Ecological and Economic Analysis of Fisheries
- 18.3 The Economics of Fisheries in Practice
- 18.4 Policies for Sustainable Fisheries Management
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- Exercise
- 19 Forests and Land Management
- 19.1 The Economics of Forest Management
- 19.2 Deforestation: Trends and Drivers
- 19.3 Policies for Sustainable Forest Management
- 19.4 The Economic Value of Land Preservation
- 19.5 Land Preservation Policies
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- Exercise
- 20 Water: Economics and Policy
- 20.1 Global Supply and Demand for Water
- 20.2 Addressing Water Shortages
- 20.3 Water Pricing
- 20.4 Water Rights, Water Markets, and Privatization
- 20.5 Water as a Common Property Resource
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- 21 World Trade and the Environment
- 21.1 Environmental Impacts of Trade
- 21.2 Trade and Environment: Policy and Practice
- 21.3 Trade Agreements and the Environment
- 21.4 Strategies for Sustainable Trade
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- 22 Policies for Sustainable Development
- 22.1 The Concept of Sustainable Development
- 22.2 Sustainable Development: Implications for Developed and Developing Countries
- 22.3 Reforming Global Institutions
- 22.4 Rethinking Economic Growth
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Discussion Questions
- Glossary
- Index




