Environmental issues are of fundamental importance, and a broad approach to understanding the relationship between the human economy and the natural world is essential. In a rapidly changing policy and scientific context, this new edition of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics continues to reflect an updated perspective on modern environmental topics.
Now in its sixth edition, this textbook includes enhanced and updated material on energy, climate change, population, agriculture, forests, and water, reflecting the greater urgency required to solve global, regional, and local environmental problems in these areas. It introduces students to both standard environmental economics and the broader perspective of ecological economics, balancing analytical techniques of environmental economics with a global perspective on current ecological issues such as global climate change, ocean degradation, plastic pollution, water shortages, and other environmental challenges.
Harris and Roachs premise is that a pluralistic approach is essential to understand the complex nexus between the economy and the environment. This perspective, combined with an emphasis on real-world policies, is particularly appealing to both instructors and students. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics is the ideal text for undergraduate classes on environmental, natural resource, and ecological economics, and other courses on environmental policy.
PART I: Introduction: The Economy and the Environment 1. Economic Perspectives on the Environment 2. Resources, Environment, and Economic Development PART II: Economic Analysis of Environmental Issues 3. The Theory of Environmental Externalities 4. Common Property Resources and Public Goods 5. Resource Allocation Over Time 6. Valuing the Environment 7. Cost-Benefit Analysis 8. Pollution Analysis and Policy PART III: Ecological Economics and Environmental Accounting 9. Ecological Economics 10. National Income and Environmental Accounting PART IV: Energy, Climate Change, and Greening the Economy 11. Energy: The Great Transition 12. Global Climate Change: Science and Economics (Contributing Author Anne-Marie Codur) 13. Global Climate Change: Policy Responses (Contributing Author Anne-Marie Codur) 14. Greening the Economy PART V: Population, Agriculture, and Resources 15. Population and the Environment (Contributing Author Anne-Marie Codur) 16. Agriculture, Food, and Environment (Contributing Author Anne-Marie Codur) 17. Nonrenewable Resources: Scarcity and Abundance 18. Renewable Resource Use: Fisheries 19. Forest and Land Management (Contributing Author Ekaterina Gnedenko) 20. Water: Economics and Policy (Contributing Author Anne-Marie Codur) PART VI: Environment, Trade, and Development 21. World Trade and the Environment 22. Policies for Sustainable Development
