Natural resource and environmental economics /

Abstract

This book is directed at students of economics, undertaking a specialist course in resource and/or environmental economics. Its primary use is expected to be as a principal textbook in upper-level undergraduate (final year) and taught masters-level postgraduate programmes. However, it will also serve as a main or supporting text for second-year courses (or third-year courses on four-year degree programmes) that have a substantial environmental economics component. This third edition of the text is intended to be comprehensive and contemporary. It deals with all major areas of natural resource and environmental economics. The subject is presented in a way that gives a more rigorous grounding in economic analysis than is common in existing texts at this level. It has been structured to achieve a balance of theory, applications and examples, which is appropriate to a text of this level, and which will be, for most readers, their first systematic analysis of resource and environmental economics.