1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798568803321

Titolo

Advances in Spanish as a heritage language / / edited by Diego Pascual y Cabo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2016

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 pages)

Collana

Studies in Bilingualism, , 0928-1533 ; ; Volume 49

Disciplina

306.44261073

Soggetti

Spanish language - United States

Languages in contact - United States

Language acquisition - United States

Spanish language - Influence on English

English language - Influence on Spanish

Bilingualism - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910409662303321

Autore

Fisher Anthony C

Titolo

Lecture Notes on Resource and Environmental Economics / / by Anthony C. Fisher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-48958-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (158 pages)

Collana

The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources, , 1571-487X ; ; 16

Disciplina

333.7

Soggetti

Environmental economics

Natural resources

Energy policy

Environmental management

Economics

Environmental Economics

Natural Resources

Energy Policy, Economics and Management

Environmental Management

Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1 The Classical Roots of Resource Economics -- 2 Optimal Depletion of Exhaustible Resources -- 3 Renewable Resources -- 4 Environmental Resources: Dynamics, Irreversibility and Option Value -- 5 Resources, Growth and Sustainability -- 6 Climate: The Ultimate Resource?.

Sommario/riassunto

This book, based on lectures on natural and environmental resource economics, offers a nontechnical exposition of the modern theory of sustainability in the presence of resource scarcity. It applies an alternative take on environmental economics, focusing on the economics of the natural environment, including development, computation, and potential empirical importance of the concept of option value, as opposed to the standard treatment of the economics of pollution control. The approach throughout is primarily conceptual and



theoretical, though empirical estimation and results are sometimes noted. Mathematics, ranging from elementary calculus to more formal dynamic optimization, is used, especially in the early chapters on the optimal management of exhaustible and renewable resources, but results are always given an economic interpretation. Diagrams and numerical examples are also used extensively. The first chapter introduces the classical economists as the first resource economists, in their discussion of the implications of a limited natural resource base (agricultural land) for the evolution of the wider economy. A later chapter returns to the same concerns, along with others stimulated by the energy and environmental “crises” of the 1970s and beyond. One section considers alternative measures of resource scarcity and empirical findings on their behavior over time. Another introduces the modern concept of sustainability with an intuitive development of the analytics. A chapter on the dynamics of environmental management motivates the concept of option value, shows how to compute it, then demonstrates its importance in an illustrative empirical example. The closing chapter, on climate change, first projects future changes and potential catastrophic impacts, then discusses the policy relevance of both option value and discounting for the very long run. This book is intended for resource and environmental economists and can be read by interested graduate and advanced undergraduate students in the field as well.