DESCRIPTION Environmental and Natural Resource Economics engages students in standard economic theory through the lens of hot-button environmental issues such as global climate change and overpopulation. This broad, balanced approach combines traditional microeconomic analysis with a detailed examination of macro-level ecological problems that require local, national, and global policy solutions. Table Contents I. Introduction: The Economy and the Environment 1. Changing Perspectives on the Environment 2. Resources, Environment and Economic Development II. Economic Analysis of Environmental Issues 3. The Theory of Environmental Externalities Appendix: Basic Supply and Demand Theory 4. Common Property Resources and Public Goods 5. Resource Allocation Over Time 6. Valuing the Environment III. Ecological Economics and Environmental Accounting 7. Ecological Economics: Some Basic Concepts 8. National Income and Environmental Accounting Appendix: Basic National Income Accounting 9. Modeling Economic and Ecological Systems IV. Population, Agriculture, and the Environment 10. Population and the Environment 11. Agriculture, Food, and Environment V. Energy and Resources 12. Nonrenewable Resources: Scarcity and Abundance 13. Energy: The Great Transition 14. Renewable Resource Use: Fisheries 15. Ecosystem Management: Forest and Water Systems VI. Pollution: Impacts and Policy Responses 16. Pollution: Analysis and Policy 17. Industrial Ecology 18. Global Climate Change VII. Environment, Trade, and Development 19. World Trade and the Environment 20. Institutions for Sustainable Development