Nonrenewable resources. Basic economics of nonrenewable resource use / The Hotelling model with multiple demands / Empirical evidence on the theory of nonrenewable resource economics / The taxation of nonrenewable natural resources / Rent taxes and royalties in designing fiscal regimes for nonrenewable resources / The political basis of the resource curse / Modeling of biological resources. Bioeconomics: nature as capital / The forest harvesting problem: have we reached the limit of our understanding? / Biological resistance / Conservation of biological resources. Structuring rights and privileges in catch share systems / Spatial economics of forest conservation / Ecosystem services / Conservation prioritization using reserve site selection methods / Water resources. Water economics / Water rate policy: prescriptions and practice / Water institutions and the law of one price / Water quality and economics: willingness to pay, efficiency, cost-effectiveness and new research frontiers / Transboundary water issues