Resource and Environmental Economics

Klappentext This book presents the major themes of the economic literature on natural resources and the environment. Zusammenfassung This book presents the major themes of the economic literature on natural resources and the environment. It is designed to bring the reader! in part with the aid of a unified model of optimal resource use! to the frontiers of the discipline! using only elementary mathematical models. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Exhaustible resources: the theory of optimal depletion; 3. Renewable resources: the theory of optimal use; 4. Resource Scarcity: are resources limits to growth? 5. Natural resources and natural environments; 6. Environmental pollution; 7. Some concluding thoughts: the role of economics in the study of resource and environmental problems.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony C. Fisher
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.1981
• EAN: 9780521285940
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28594-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Cambridge Surveys of Economic
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries