Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Jonathan M. Harris is Senior Researcher at the Tufts University Global Development and Environment Institute and Senior Research Fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center Economics in Context Initiative. His current research focuses on the implications of large-scale environmental problems, especially global climate change, for macroeconomic theory and policy. Brian Roach is Director of the Theory and Education Program at the Tufts University Global Development and Environment Institute and Senior Research Fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center Economics in Context Initiative. His work has focused on the valuation of natural resources, and he has taught environmental economics at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

• Chapter 1: Changing Perspectives on the EnvironmentChapter 2: Resources, Environment, and Economic DevelopmentChapter 3: The Theory of Environmental ExternalitiesChapter 4: Common Property Resources and Public GoodsChapter 5: Resource Allocation Over TimeChapter 6: Valuing the Environment Chapter 7: Cost-Benefit AnalysisChapter 8: Pollution: Analysis and Policy Chapter 9: Ecological Economics: Basic Concepts Chapter 10: National Income and Environmental AccountingChapter 11: Energy: The Great TransitionChapter 12: Global Climate Change: Science and Economics Chapter 13: Global Climate Change: Policy Responses Chapter 14: The Green EconomyChapter 15: Population and the EnvironmentChapter 16: Agriculture, Food and EnvironmentChapter 17: Resources: Scarcity and AbundanceChapter 18: Renewable Resource Use: FisheriesChapter 19: Forest and Land Management Chapter 20: Water: Economics and PolicyChapter 21: World Trade and the EnvironmentChapter 22: Policies for Sustainable Development