Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 7302105243
Published on: 2005-01
Paperback
The Sixth Edition of this best-selling text introduces students to a thorough study of environmental and natural resource economics. In continuing the trend toward a more international focus, Teitenberg pays increased attention to environmental problems and policies in Eastern and Western Europe, China, and developing nations. In addition, an explicit integration of research and policy within each chapter connects actual examples to economic theory, giving students a context within which to understand the material.
Praised for its tight integration of economic theory with real-world public policy. Incorporates new research and data throughout, including coverage of CAFE standards and environmental taxation. Added coverage of the latest events and policies, such as electricity deregulation in California, recent developments in the Kyoto Protocol, and new technology in the transportation sector. Boxed examples illustrate the economic principles at work. International coverage is woven into the text.
New To This Edition: Coverage of biodiversity has been heavily revised to emphasize overexploitation in fisheries (Chapter 13), and habitat protection in forests (Chapter 12). Chapter-specific Web links have been added to the book's Companion Web Site for further exploration. Online Instructor's Manual will make it easy for professors to plan their course.
Table of Contents
Visions of the Future.
Valuing the Environment: Concepts.
Valuing the Environment: Methods.
Property Rights, Externalities, and Environmental Problems.
Sustainable Development: Defining the Concept.
The Population Problem.
The Allocation of Depletable and Renewable: An Overview.
Depletable, Non-recyclable Energy Resources: Oil, Gas, Coal and Uranium.
Recyclable Resources: Minerals, Paper, Glass, Etc.
Replenishable but Depletable Resources: Water.
Reproducible Private-Property Resources: Agriculture.
Storable, Renewable Resources: Forests.
Renewable Common-Property Resources: Fisheries and Other Species.
Generalized Resource Scarcity.
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 a Future Revised.
