Lecture Notes on Resource and Environmental Economics
This book, based on lectures on natural and environmental resource economics, offers a nontechnical exposition of the modern theory of sustainability in the presence of resource scarcity. It applies an alternative take on environmental economics, foc
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Anthony C. Fisher
Lecture Notes on Resource and Environmental Economics
The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources Volume 16
Series Editor Ian J Bateman, ENV, CSERGE, School University of East Anglia, Exeter, UK
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/5919
Anthony C. Fisher
Lecture Notes on Resource and Environmental Economics
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Anthony C. Fisher Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
ISSN 1571-487X The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources ISBN 978-3-030-48957-1 ISBN 978-3-030-48958-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48958-8
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Preface
This volume is based on lectures, primarily in classes, both graduate and undergraduate, plus seminar and conference presentations, that I have given over the past 40+ years, 40 at UC Berkeley, in the field of natural resource and environmental economics. Although some of the material is similar to what one would find in a textbook and is indeed adapted from one or another, as well as from journal articles by myself and others, it represents my take on a subject—what has been of particular interest to me or perhaps what I was learning, working through, and lecturing about at a given time. This has, not surprisingly, also resulted in changes or additions to the original source, indicated as appropriate. There is no attempt at balance in coverage across subjects or length of treatment, as one would expect to find in a standard text. A couple of examples are given below to
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