Natural Resource Economics: An Introduction, Third Edition

Employing a logical structure and easy-to-understand descriptions, Field covers fundamental economic principles and their general application to natural resource use. These principles are further developed in chapters devoted to specific resources. Moreover, this up-to-date volume addresses the challenge of achieving socially beneficial utilization rates in the twenty-first century amid continuing population growth, urbanization, and global climate change.

Topics new to the Third Edition include:

• implications of climate change on resources

• fracking

• energy intensity and the energy efficiency gap

• reducing fossil energy

• forests and carbon

• international water issues

• globalization and trade in natural resources

Not-for-sale instructor's resource materials available online to college and university faculty only; contact publisher directly.

Also by Barry C. Field and available from Waveland Press: Environmental Policy: An Introduction (ISBN 9781577664284).