Principles of environmental economics Book

Introduction

PART I: The "Preanalytic" Vision of Natural Resources: The Standard Economic Perspective

1. The Concept of Resources and Resource Scarcity: An Economic Perspective

PART II: Markets, Efficiency, Technology, and Alternative Economic Indicators of Natural

Resource Scarcity

2. Resource Scarcity, Economic Efficiency and Markets: How the Invisible Hand Works

3. Market Signals of Natural Resource Scarcity: Resource Price, Rent, and Extraction Cost

PART III: Ecology: The Economics of Nature

4. The Concept of Natural Resources:

An Ecological Perspective

PART IV: Fundamentals of the Economics of Environmental Resources

5. The Market, Externality, and the "Optimal" Trade-Off between Environmental Quality and Environmental Goods

PART V: The Perennial Debates on the Biophysical Limitations to

Economic Growth

6. Biophysical Limits to Economic Growth: The Malthusian Perspective

7. Biophysical Limits to Economic Growth: The Neoclassical Economic Perspective

8. Biophysical Limits to Economic Growth: The Ecological Economic perspective

9. The Economics of Sustainable

Development

PART VI: The Economics of Environmental Resources: Public Policies and Cost-Benefit Estimations of Environmental Damage

10. The Economic Theory of Pollution Control: The Optimal Level of Pollution

11. The Economics of Environmental Regulations: Regulating the

Environment through Judicial Procedures

12. The Economics of Environmental Regulations: Regulating the Environment Through Judicial Procedures

13. Global Environmental Pollution: Acid Rain, Ozone Depletion, and Global Warming

14. The Economic Theory and Measurement of

Environmental Damage (Benefit): Valuing the Environment

15. A Framework for Assessing the Worthiness of an Environmental Project: Cost-Benefit Analysis

PART VII: Basic Elements of the Economic Theories of Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources

16. Fundamental Principles of

the Economics of Renewable Resources:The Case of Fishery

17. Fundamental Principles of the Economics of Non-Renewable Resources

PART VIII: Resource Scarcity, Population, Poverty and the Environment

18. Population, Development and Environmental Degradation in the Developing

World