Environmental and Resource Economics: An Introduction - Hardcover

Common, Dr Michael

 
9780582246324: Environmental and Resource Economics: An Introduction
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0582246326 ISBN 13: 9780582246324
Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 1996

Synopsis

Second edition of well respected book provides a careful and rigorous yet accessible intorduction to the contributiion of economic analysis to an understnading of the relationship between economic activity and the environment

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Common- Environmental & Resource Economics- an introduction 2E
Reviews of First Edition
'The whole text is written in a clear, concise style with useful examples and extensive references.' Environment and Planning
'A thorough text ... illustrative case studies help to illuminate the text and give it a welcome sense of
reality.' The Environmentalist
Now available in an updated second edition Environmental and Resource Economics provides a careful and rigorous yet accessible introductory survey of the contribution of economic analysis to an understanding of the relationship between economic activity and the natural environment.
Key changes to the second edition-
· Addition of entirely new chapter on sustainability, providing extensive discussion of key issues such as poverty and growth,green national income accounting, biodiversity and the greenhouse effect
· Inclusion of new material on the environment and trade
· Contains a new section on risk and uncertainty, and a revised and extended discussion on the valuation of non-marketed environmental services
· All commentary sections have been updated
Assuming little prior knowledge of economics and making use of no mathematics beyond simple algebra, the book provides an authoritative introduction to the subject for students on interdisciplinary environmental science courses, as well as for students majoring in economics.
The author- Michael Common is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australia National University, Canberra. He has published numerous articles on environmental and resource economics and is the author of Sustainability and Policy (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

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Publisher
Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0582246326
ISBN 13 
9780582246324
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
2
Number of pages
464