Handbook on the Economics of Natural Resources - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857937553 ISBN 13: 9780857937551

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

The topics discussed in the Handbook on the Economics of Natural Resources are essential for those looking to understand how best to use and conserve the resources that form the foundation for human well-being. The expert contributors to this Handbook provide insightful solutions to many of the problems that growing populations now face.

Organized into four fundamental parts, this book sketches the likely developments in the field of natural resource economics and paves the way for new thinking in the areas of:

• nonrenewable resources
• modeling of biological resources
• conservation of biological resources
• water resources.

A key source of the most important research in the field, this important book will be of interest to graduate students, instructors and scholars in natural resource economics.

Contributors: H.J. Albers, G.S. Amacher, R.M. Auty, E.B. Barbier, O. Bayasgalan, A. Bhaduri, R. Boadway, E.C. Edwards, E.P. Fenichel, G. Gaudet, S. Gopalakrishnan, R.Q. Grafton, R. Griffin, R. Halvorsen, J.M. Hartwick, M. Herrmann, D. Holland, M. Keen, Y. Kuwayama, P. Lasserre, R. Laxminarayan, D.F. Layton, G.D.Libecap, J. Livernois, S.C. Newbold, S. Olmstead, E.J.Z. Robinson, S.W. Salant, J. Siikamäki, H. Thille, S. Wheeler

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About the Author

Edited by Robert Halvorsen, Professor of Economics and David F. Layton, Professor of Public Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle, US

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857937553
• ISBN 13: 9780857937551
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 560
• Editor: Halvorsen Robert, Layton David F.