Routledge Library Editions: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
About the Book Series
The volumes in this set, originally published between 1972 and 2000, draw together research by leading academics in the area of environmental and natural resource economics, and provides a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volumes examine pollution control and policy, and renewable and non-renewable resource economics, whilst also exploring the general principles and practices of environmental economics in various countries. This set will be of particular interest to students of economics and geography.
Sustainable Industrialization
1st Edition
By David Wallace
April 25, 2019
This report, first published in 1996, argues that radical changes in industrial organization and its relationship to society tend to arise in rapidly industrializing countries, and that new principles of sustainable production are more likely to bear fruit in developing than in developed countries....
The Business of Greening
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Fineman
April 25, 2019
The Business of Greening, first published in 2000, debates the relationship between business and greening, and the future form this relationship could take. The book gives voice to industrial actors - employees, employers, managers, technical specialists, regulators - in the context of their ...
The Global Copper Industry: Problems and Prospects
1st Edition
By Raymond F. Mikesell
April 25, 2019
Originally published in 1988. Copper is one of the most actively traded commodities. It is a crucial commodity for industrialised countries, most of which depend on imports for their supplies. Copper is also the single most important export for many of the producer-countries. Changes in the ...
The Political Economy of Smog in Southern California
1st Edition
By Jeffry Fawcett
April 25, 2019
This study, first published in 1990, explores the ways in which institutions can succeed or fail at environmental improvement. The author first takes a look at the nature of environmental politics and the history of air pollution control in Southern California. He then develops a political economic...
The Welfare Economics of Alternative Renewable Resource Strategies: Forested Wetlands and Agricultural Production
1st Edition
By Robert N. Stavins
April 25, 2019
This study, originally published in 1990, seeks to address several important policy questions associated with the ongoing depletion of forested wetlands. First, in the context of Environmental Impact Statements, should the estimated areas of impact of Federal flood-control and drainage projects on ...
The World Mining Industry: Investment Strategy and Public Policy
1st Edition
By Raymond F. Mikesell, John W. Whitney
April 25, 2019
Originally published in 1987. A powerful combination of the authors’ research and practical experience underpin this book’s treatment of management and financial strategy in the world mining industry. In contrast with highly theoretical economic treatises on the extractive industries, this account ...
An Analysis of Cartelized Market Structures for Nonrenewable Resources
1st Edition
By Robert A. Marshalla
April 23, 2019
Originally published in 1979. While the theory of non-renewable resources under competitive and monopolistic market regimes have been relatively well developed, almost no attention has been given to the development of a theoretical framework for analysis of the spectrum of mixed market structure ...
Non-Renewable Resources and Disequilibrium Macrodynamics
1st Edition
By Robert Marks
April 23, 2019
This study, first published in 1979, continues by examining the question of whether a competitive economy can efficiently allocate a stock of non-renewable natural resources through time. Long-run analyses of competitive economies with such resources have concluded that, without perfect foresight ...
Economics and Land Use Planning
1st Edition
By A. J. Harrison
February 01, 2019
The aim of this book, first published in 1977, is to use the tools developed by modern microeconomics to provide a framework for the analysis of policies towards the allocation of land and the control of activities using land. The principle focus of the book is the general justification for ...
Routledge Library Editions: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
1st Edition
By Various
October 23, 2017
The volumes in this set, originally published between 1972 and 2000, draw together research by leading academics in the area of environmental and natural resource economics, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volumes examine pollution control and policy, and renewable and...