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Machine generated contents note: pt. I NATURAL RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND NATURAL RESOURCE SUPPLY AND SCARCITY -- 1. Economic growth, resource scarcity, and environmental degradation: where have we been and where are we going? -- 2. Ecosystem goods and services: how does a healthy environment support economic production, consumption, and quality of life? -- 3. Resource supply and scarcity: how do we define, measure, and monitor natural resource supply and scarcity? -- 4. Natural resources, the environment, and policy: what is the public policy context for natural resource and environmental economics? -- pt. II MICROECONOMIC THEORY FOUNDATIONS FOR EFFICIENCY, WELL-BEING, AND THE PROBLEM OF RISK -- 5. Economic efficiency: how does a healthy economy allocate natural resources to economic production and consumption? -- 6. Intertemporal efficiency: how do we efficiently allocate natural resources over time? -- 7. Risk and uncertainty: how do we assess risk and make risky decisions involving natural resources and the environment? -- pt. III ECONOMIC THEORY AND INSTITUTIONS FOR PUBLIC POLICY -- 8. Criteria for economic policy: how do we tell a good natural resource and environmental policy from a bad one? -- 9. Rules of the game: how do they influence efficiency and equity and how can we get them right? -- 10. Market failure and inefficiency: what could cause an undesirable market allocation of resources? -- 11. Institutional framework: what is the social and legal context for natural resource and environmental decisions and policy? -- pt. IV MEASURING AND COMPARING BENEFITS AND COSTS OF NATURAL RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND PROJECTS -- 12. Benefit-cost analysis: how do we determine if the benefits of a resource policy outweigh the costs? -- 13. Measuring economic values: how do we account for all relevant benefits and costs in natural resource and environmental decisions? -- pt. V OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT OF NON-RENEWABLE AND RENEWABLE RESOURCES -- 14. Exhaustible, non-renewable resources: what is the optimal use and management of non-renewable resources over time? -- 15. Renewable resources: what is the optimal use and management of renewable resources over time? -- pt. VI ECONOMICS OF AIR, LAND, AND WATER RESOURCE USE AND POLICY -- 16. control of polluting emissions: how can we protect the environment and people from air pollution? -- 17. economics of land: how do land markets work and how do we manage land use? -- 18. economics of water: how is water valued and allocated? -- pt. VII ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS, SUSTAINABILITY, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND THE FUTURE -- 19. Understanding sustainability: what can economics tell us about using and managing resources in a sustainable manner? -- 20. Climate change: the earth's climate is changing -- can economics help us figure out what, if anything, to do about it? -- 21. Economics and environmental ethics: what are the ethical implications of the economic approach to conservation and preservation and what can we learn from other ethical approaches? -- 22. Economic science, economic policy, and doing the best we can: how do we find our way forward?. |
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