Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management Third Edition

by David A. Anderson

The tools of environmental economics guide policymakers as they weigh development against nature, present against future, and certain benefits against uncertain consequences. From reluctant-but-necessary calculations of the value of life, to moral quandaries over profits at the environment s expense, the models and findings explained in this textbook are relevant to today s more pressing dilemmas.



The third edition of Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management retains the application-based narratives and visual emphasis of the second edition, while covering the latest policy initiatives, following recent trends, and becoming even more user friendly. An expanded array of color photographs, diagrams, and other visual aids provide new perspectives on global environmental and resource issues.



The book covers topics including:





efficiency and cost-benefit analysis natural resource management globalization environmental ethics population growth and poverty.



This fascinating textbook will be invaluable to students undertaking courses in environmental economics, ecological economics, and environmental and resource economics. The book includes an online Instructor s Guide with answers to all the practice problems as well as downloadable slides of figures and tables from the book.

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448 pages, Paperback

First published February 18, 2003

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Reviews

[Paul Briggs · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am currently teaching Environmental Economics and this is by far the best textbook that I have seen for this course and my students at our community college. The book is flexible enough so that I can focus on general concepts or I can delve more deeply into specific models.

[Kristi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disclaimer: I dislike economics with great intensity. Yet this is a decent book. I would even say, a good book. Furthermore, it was written be a professor at Centre College, just down the road. I appreciate a book written by a "local." I also appreciate when that author can produce a good book that helps you to apply the material you are learning to your own life. This book has lots of practical examples and application of its principles, great color photos and easy to understand graphs.

But I still don't like economics.