Edward B. Barbier

Capitalizing on Nature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shows how the economic approach of modeling natural resources as capital assets can be extended to ecosystems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781107007277
• ISBN-10: 1107007275
• Artikelnr.: 33352810

Autorenporträt

Edward B. Barbier is the John S. Bugas Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming. He has over twenty-five years' experience as an environmental and resource economist, working mainly on the economics of environment and development issues. He is the author of many books on environmental policy, including Natural Resources and Economic Development (2005), A Global Green New Deal (2010) and Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation (2010), all published by Cambridge University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Ecological scarcity as an economic problem
2. Ecosystem services and ecological landscapes
3. The basic natural asset model
4. Spatial variation in ecosystems
5. The open economy
6. Ecological collapse
7. The way ahead
8. Policies in the age of ecological scarcity
Index.

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List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Ecological scarcity as an economic problem; 2. Ecosystem services and ecological landscapes; 3. The basic natural asset model; 4. Spatial variation in ecosystems; 5. The open economy; 6. Ecological collapse; 7. The way ahead; 8. Policies in the age of ecological scarcity; Index.

Rezensionen

'Spiced with a rich melange of historical perspective and insightful empirical illustration, Barbier sets out the key issues necessary to address the challenge of the unfolding 'Age of Ecological Scarcity'. This volume will draw readers from multiple fields including economics, ecology and environmental sciences.' Ian Bateman, Professor of Environmental Sciences, CSERGE, University of East Anglia