Resource Economics - Hardcover

Conrad, Jon M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521640121 ISBN 13: 9780521640121

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Resource Economics is a text for students with a background in calculus, intermediate microeconomics, and a familiarity with the spreadsheet software Excel. The book covers basic concepts, shows how to set up spreadsheets to solve dynamic allocation problems, and presents economic models for fisheries, forestry, nonrenewable resources, stock pollutants, option value, and sustainable development. Within the text, numerical examples are posed and solved using Excel's Solver. These problems help make concepts operational, develop economic intuition, and serve as a bridge to the study of real-world problems of resource management. Through these examples and additional exercises at the end of Chapters 1 to 8, students can make dynamic models operational, develop their economic intuition, and learn how to set up spreadsheets for the simulation of optimization of resource and environmental systems.

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Review

'... [an] excellent text that will be suitable for the best of the undergraduates and all the graduates taking this increasingly popular subject.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

Book Description

The book covers basic concepts, shows how to set up spreadsheets to solve dynamic allocation problems, and presents economic models for fisheries, forestry, nonrenewable resources, stock pollutants, option value, and sustainable development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521640121
• ISBN 13: 9780521640121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224