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Natural Resources as Capital
Author | : Larry Karp |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2017-10-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780262534055 |
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An introduction to the concepts and tools of natural resource economics, including dynamic models, market failures, and institutional remedies. This introduction to natural resource economics treats resources as a type of capital; their management is an investment problem requiring forward-looking behavior within a dynamic setting. Market failures are widespread, often associated with incomplete or nonexistent property rights, complicated by policy failures. The book covers standard resource economics topics, including both the Hotelling model for nonrenewable resources and models for renewable resources. The book also includes some topics in environmental economics that overlap with natural resource economics, including climate change. The text emphasizes skills and intuition needed to think about dynamic models and institutional remedies in the presence of both market and policy failures. It presents the nuts and bolts of resource economics as applied to nonrenewable resources, including the two-period model, stock-dependent costs, and resource scarcity. The chapters on renewable resources cover such topics as property rights as an alternative to regulation, the growth function, steady states, and maximum sustainable yield, using fisheries as a concrete setting. Other, less standard, topics covered include microeconomic issues such as arbitrage and the use of discounting; policy problems including the “Green Paradox”; foundations for policy analysis when market failures are important; and taxation. Appendixes offer reviews of the relevant mathematics. The book is suitable for use by upper-level undergraduates or, with the appendixes, masters-level courses.
Green Growth That Works
Author | : Lisa Ann Mandle,Zhiyun Ouyang,Gretchen Cara Daily,James Edwin Salzman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2019-09-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781642830033 |
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Rapid economic development has been a boon to human well-being, but comes at a significant cost to the fertile soils, forests, coastal marshes, and farmland that support all life on earth. If ecosystems collapse, so eventually will human civilization. One solution is inclusive green growth--the efficient use of natural resources. Its genius lies in working with nature rather than against it. Green Growth That Works is the first practical guide to bring together pragmatic finance and policy tools that can make investment in natural capital both attractive and commonplace. Pioneered by leading scholars from the Natural Capital Project, this valuable compendium of proven techniques can guide agencies and organizations eager to make green growth work anywhere in the world.
Scarcity and Growth
Author | : Harold J. Barnett,Chandler Morse |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781135989170 |
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In this classic study, the authors assess the importance of technological change and resource substitution in support of their conclusion that resource scarcity did not increase in the Unites States during the period 1870 to 1957. Originally published in 1963
Investing in Natural Capital
Author | : A.-M. Jansson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1994-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : MINN:31951D00897057P |
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The results of a workshop held following the second biannual conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics, Investing in Natural Capital emphasizes the essential connections between natural ecosystems and human socioeconomic systems, and the importance of ensuring that both remain resilient.
Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival Second Edition
Author | : Thomas Prugh,Herman Daly,Robert Goodland,John H Cumberland,Richard B Norgaard |
Publsiher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1999-05-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1420048325 |
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Most people love nature and consider themselves environmentalists, but nature isn't just pretty and lovable, it is indispensable to our survival and economic activity. That is the most compelling reason for environmental protection. The conventional economic wisdom views land (natural capital) as a small part of the economy, along with capital, labor, technology and so on. The authors argue that this is backwards: that the economy nests within the environment (land) and not the other way around. The authors give a brief history of the origins of conventional economic wisdom and critique it from a the standpoint of ecological economics. They explain what natural capital -our life support system - is and does, and describe the severe strains that have been put on it. They conclude with some policy options, such as green taxes and suggestions for personal action that would conserve natural capital and thus make conserve resources for present and future generations. Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival is written for environmentalists, environmental studies majors and anyone concerned about the flaws of mainstream economics - how it has led us into unsustainable ways of living - and who would like to learn about alternatives that are more sustainable.
Resource Economics
Author | : John C. Bergstrom,Alan Randall |
Publsiher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2016-06-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781784717933 |
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Resource Economics engages students and practitioners in natural resource and environmental issues from both local and global standpoints. The fourth edition of this approachable but rigorous text provides a new focus on risk and uncertainty as well as new applications that address the effect of new energy technologies on scarcity and climate change mitigation and adaptation, while preserving and systematically updating the approach and key features that drew many thousands of readers to the first three editions.
Environmental and Natural Resources Economics
Author | : Steven C. Hackett |
Publsiher | : M.E. Sharpe |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0765606828 |
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With over 25% new material, this new edition of Environmental and Natural Resources Economics offers an accessible and balanced treatment of economic theory and policy relating to the environment, as well as a thorough overview of the economics of sustainability. Intended for both students and practioners, the book has been completely updated to include discussion and analysis of the latest U.S. and international environmental policy initiatives -- such as the Kyoto Protocol--and how they affect the global economy. Fully-integrated web source linkages have also been added throughout to enable all readers to make better use of the book's own website and a myriad of other available internet resources for research and supplemental reading on this crucial subject
Capital Accumulation and Resource Depletion a Hartwick Rule Counterfactual
Author | : Liaila Tajibaeva, Kirk Hamilton, Giovanni Ruta |
Publsiher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Nonrenewable natural resources |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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Abstract: "How rich would resource-abundant countries be if they had actually followed the Hartwick Rule (invest resource rents in other assets) over the past 30 years? Hamilton, Ruta, and Tajibaeva use time series data on investments and rents on exhaustible resource extraction for 70 countries to answer this question. The results are striking: Gabon, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela would all be as wealthy as the Republic of Korea, while Nigeria would be five times as well off as it is currently. The authors also derive a more general rule for sustainability--maintain positive constant genuine investment--and use this to draw further empirical results. This paper--a product of the Environment Department--is part of a larger effort in the department to foster sustainable development"--World Bank web site.