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100 1 _aFisher, Anthony C.
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245 1 0 _aResource and Environmental Economics /
_cAnthony C. Fisher.
260 _aCambridge [Cambridgeshire] ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1981.
300 _axv, 284 p. :
_bill. ;
_c22 cm.
440 0 _aCambridge surveys of economic literature.
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500 _aIncludes indexes.
504 _aBibliography: p. 241-275.
505 _a1. Introduction; 2. Exhaustible resources: the theory of optimal depletion; 3. Renewable resources: the theory of optimal use; 4. Resource Scarcity: are resources limits to growth? 5. Natural resources and natural environments; 6. Environmental pollution; 7. Some concluding thoughts: the role of economics in the study of resource and environmental problems.
520 _aThis book presents the major themes of the economic literature on natural resources and the environment. It is designed to bring the reader, in part with the aid of a unified model of optimal resource use, to the frontiers of the discipline, using only elementary mathematical models. Features special to exhaustible and renewable resources, including the problems posed by market imperfections, are treated as extensions of the basic model. The theoretical discussion is enriched with examples and applications, including a systematic investigation of the behaviour of resource reserves, costs, prices, and substitution possibilities. Substantial attention to environmental, as well as extractive, resources is a distinctive aspect of this book. The author describes methods of estimating the environmental costs of resource development and other projects, and presents some key empirical findings. Policy instruments to protect the environment, such as taxes, subsidies, marketable permits, and direct controls, are carefully analysed from a welfare-theoretic point of view.
650 0 _aNatural resources.
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650 0 _aEnvironmental policy.
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650 0 _aPollution
_xEconomic aspects.
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