05023nam 22006975 450 991040966230332120250609112118.03-030-48958-210.1007/978-3-030-48958-8(CKB)4100000011321113(MiAaPQ)EBC6237874(DE-He213)978-3-030-48958-8(MiAaPQ)EBC6237930(EXLCZ)99410000001132111320200626d2020 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLecture Notes on Resource and Environmental Economics /by Anthony C. Fisher1st ed. 2020.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2020.1 online resource (158 pages)The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources,1571-487X ;163-030-48957-4 Includes bibliographical references.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?.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.The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources,1571-487X ;16Environmental economicsNatural resourcesEnergy policyEnergy policyEnvironmental managementEconomicsEnvironmental Economicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W48000Natural Resourceshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U39000Energy Policy, Economics and Managementhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/112000Environmental Managementhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U17009Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methodshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W29000Environmental economics.Natural resources.Energy policy.Energy policy.Environmental management.Economics.Environmental Economics.Natural Resources.Energy Policy, Economics and Management.Environmental Management.Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.333.7Fisher Anthony Cauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut247779MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910409662303321Lecture Notes on Resource and Environmental Economics1914880UNINA