Tietenberg, Thomas H. creator Lewis, Lynne. text mau New York Pearson Education,Inc 2014 2015 2015 10th Edition. monographic eng

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xxvi, 606 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Preface -- Visions of the future -- The economic approach : property rights, externalities, and environmental problems -- Evaluating trade-offs : benefit-cost analysis and other decision-making metrics -- Valuing the environment : methods -- Dynamic efficiency and sustainable development -- Depletable resource allocation : the role of longer time horizons, substitutes, and extraction cost -- Energy : the transition from depletable to renewable resources -- Recyclable resources : minerals, paper, bottles, and e-waste -- Water : a confluence of renewable and depletable resources -- A locationally fixed, multipurpose resource : land -- Storable, renewable resources : forests -- Common-pool resources : commercially valuable fisheries -- Ecosystem goods and services : nature's threatened bounty -- Economics of pollution control : an overview -- Stationary-source local and regional air pollution -- Climate change -- Mobile-source air pollution -- Water pollution -- Toxic substances and environmental justice -- The quest for sustainable development -- Visions of the future revisited -- Answers to self-test exercises -- Glossary -- Name index -- Subject index. Tom Tietenberg, Emeritus, Colby College, Lynne Lewis, Bates College. Includes index. Environmental economics Environmental policy Natural resources Government policy Raw materials Government policy HC79.E5 T525 2014 333.7 9780133479690 0133479692 2013050399 DLC 131223 20230815111428.0 17980502 eng