Natural Resource Economics
Published on 16. March 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-0-07-118934-7 (ISBN)
Description
Barry Field is an authority on natural resource economics and has a successful Irwin/McGraw-Hill book Environmental Economics: An Introduction, 0-07-021498-0 ( (c)1997). Natural Resource Economics will be a companion to that book. This new text will examine how we as humans decide to use our natural resources, will highlight some of the mistakes we have made in doing so, and will teach students to analyze these decisions. Students will become more informed about the choices we make in shaping and managing our natural world. The guiding principle of the book is to present the necessary concepts in an accessible, but rigorous way at the introductory level, and then see how they apply to some of the important questions we face about natural resource use.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-118934-7 (9780071189347)
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Person
Barry C. Field is Professor of Resource Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Previously he taught at the University of Miami and The George Washington University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Cornell University, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. At the University of Massachusetts he has devoted many years to teaching natural resource economics to students at all levels, and has worked to develop an undergraduate major in environmental and resource economics. Professor Field is the author of numerous articles on resource and environmental economics.
Content
Preface Section I. Introduction 1: Important Issues in Natural Resource Economics 2:Natural Resources and the Economy Section II. Building Blocks 3: Willingness to Pay/Demand 4:Costs/Supply 5:Efficiency and Sustainability Section III. General Natural Resource Issues 6: Markets and Efficiency 7:Public Policy for Natural Resources Section IV. Natural Resource Analysis 8:Principles of Analysis 9:The Valuation of Natural Resources Section V.Applied Natural Resource Problems 10:Mineral Economics 11:Energy 12:Forest Economics 13:Marine Resources: Current Problems in Marine Fisheries, Fisheries Management Institutions of the U.S., Modeling a Fishery, Efficient Rates of Effort, The Problem of Open Access, Approaches to Fisheries Management, Uncertainty and Fisheries Management, Summary. 14:Land Economics 15: Water Economics 16:Economics of Agriculture 17:Economics of Outdoor Recreation 18: The Economics of Wildlife Management 19:The Economics of Biodiversity Preservation Section VI.Natural Economics in Developing Countries 20:Natural Resources and Economic Growth 21:Natural Resource Decisions in Developing Countries