Environmental Economics: A Critical Overview

Environmental economics is a fundamental area of environmental studies covering the exploitation, evaluation and conservation of natural resources, and the impact of this on local, regional, national and international economics. Environmental Economics: A critical overview stresses the links between economic concepts and real world issues and deals with population, natural resources, valuation, environmental regulation, economic instruments, cost-benefit analysis, waste, water resources, air pollution, global warming, biodiversity and world trade. This book is a straight forward introduction to the issues, ideas, theories and problems of the field, ideal both for students of economics and students in other fields without economic training who need an accessible introductory text.