NATURAL RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS (3A. ED.); PÁGINA LEGAL; CONTENTS; PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTATION; INTRODUCTION; WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR?; ASSUMPTIONS WE MAKE ABOUT THE READERS OF (...); CONTENTS; PERSPECTIVES; THE TEXTBOOK AS A LEARNING RESOURCE; COURSE DESIGNS; ADDITIONAL RESOURCES; PART I. FOUNDATIONS; CHAPTER 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL RESOURCE (...); LEARNING OBJECTIVES; INTRODUCTION; 1.1 THREE THEMES; 1.2 THE EMERGENCE OF RESOURCE AND (...); 1.3 FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN THE ECONOMIC (...); 1.4 READER'S GUIDE; SUMMARY; FURTHER READING. CHAPTER 2 THE ORIGINS OF THE SUSTAINABILITY (...)LEARNING OBJECTIVES; INTRODUCTION; 2.1 ECONOMY-ENVIRONMENT INTERDEPENDENCE; 2.2 THE DRIVERS OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; 2.3 POVERTY AND INEQUALITY; 2.4 LIMITS TO GROWTH?; 2.5 THE PURSUIT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SUMMARY; FURTHER READING; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; PROBLEMS; CHAPTER 3 ETHICS, ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT; LEARNING OBJECTIVES; INTRODUCTION; 3.1 NATURALIST MORAL PHILOSOPHIES; 3.2 LIBERTARIAN MORAL PHILOSOPHY; 3.3 UTILITARIANISM; 3.4 CRITICISMS OF UTILITARIANISM; 3.5 INTERTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SUMMARY; FURTHER READING. DISCUSSION QUESTIONSPROBLEMS; APPENDIX 3.1 THE LAGRANGE MULTIPLIER METHOD (...); APPENDIX 3.2 SOCIAL WELFARE MAXIMISATION; CHAPTER 4 CONCEPTS OF SUSTAINABILITY; LEARNING OBJECTIVES; INTRODUCTION; 4.1 CONCEPTS AND CONSTRAINTS; 4.2 ECONOMISTS ON SUSTAINABILITY; 4.3 ECOLOGISTS ON SUSTAINABILITY; 4.4 THE INSTITUTIONAL CONCEPTION 4.3.4 (...); 4.5 SUSTAINABILITY AND POLICY; SUMMARY; FURTHER READING; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; PROBLEMS; CHAPTER 5 WELFARE ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT; LEARNING OBJECTIVES; INTRODUCTION PART 1 EFFICIENCY AND OPTIMALITY; PART 1 EFFICIENCY AND OPTIMALITY. 5.1 ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY5.2 AN EFFICIENT ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES (...); 5.3 THE SOCIAL WELFARE FUNCTION AND OPTIMALITY; 5.4 COMPENSATION TESTS; PART 2 ALLOCATION IN A MARKET ECONOMY; 5.5 EFFICIENCY GIVEN IDEAL CONDITIONS; 5.6 PARTIAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS OF MARKET (...); 5.7 MARKET ALLOCATIONS ARE NOT NECESSARILY (...); PART 3 MARKET FAILURE, PUBLIC POLICY AND (...); 5.8 THE EXISTENCE OF MARKETS FOR (...); 5.9 PUBLIC GOODS; 5.10 EXTERNALITIES; 5.11 THE SECOND-BEST PROBLEM; 5.12 IMPERFECT INFORMATION; 5.13 GOVERNMENT FAILURE; SUMMARY; FURTHER READING; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; PROBLEMS. APPENDIX 5.1 CONDITIONS FOR EFFICIENCY (...)APPENDIX 5.2 MARKET OUTCOMES; APPENDIX 5.3 MARKET FAILURE A5.3.1 PUBLIC (...); PART II. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; CHAPTER 6 POLLUTION CONTROL: TARGETS; LEARNING OBJECTIVES; INTRODUCTION; 6.1 MODELLING POLLUTION MECHANISMS; 6.2 POLLUTION FLOWS, POLLUTION STOCKS (...); 6.3 THE EFFICIENT LEVEL OF POLLUTION; 6.4 A STATIC MODEL OF EFFICIENT FLOW POLLUTION; 6.5 MODIFIED EFFICIENCY TARGETS; 6.6 EFFICIENT LEVELS OF EMISSION OF STOCK (...); 6.7 POLLUTION CONTROL WHERE DAMAGES DEPEND (...); 6.8 AMBIENT POLLUTION STANDARDS.