Sustainable Resource Development in the 21st Century
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This edited volume discusses topics in environmental economics with a focus on sustainability, conservation, and responsible resource management. Written in memory of Peter Berck, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, the chapters expand upon his insights about the connections between human activities and the natural world.
The volume includes a selection of research on agriculture, energy, forestry, fisheries, land use, recycling, and conservation - all parts of the broad question of how natural resources…mehr

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This is an open access book.

This edited volume discusses topics in environmental economics with a focus on sustainability, conservation, and responsible resource management. Written in memory of Peter Berck, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, the chapters expand upon his insights about the connections between human activities and the natural world.

The volume includes a selection of research on agriculture, energy, forestry, fisheries, land use, recycling, and conservation - all parts of the broad question of how natural resources can meet human needs while avoiding environmental degradation. Written from a 21st century perspective, with concerns about climate, renewable energy, biodiversity, and sustainable development, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students of agricultural and resource economics.
Autorenporträt
David Zilberman is Wolf Prize Laureate, Professor and Robinson Chair of the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at University of California, Berkeley. He is the co-founder and co-director of the BEAHRS Environmental Leadership Program (ELP), and is the director of the Master of Development Practice (MDP) program. He is a fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association and the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. He has published in various fields on the economics of agriculture, environment, technology, and risk and is an editor of the Springer book series Natural Resource Management and Policy. He completed his B.A. in Economics and Statistics from Tel Aviv University in Israel and his Ph.D in Agricultural and Resource Economics at U.C. Berkeley.   Jeffrey M. Perloff is professor and former chair of the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.His economic research covers industrial organization, marketing, labor, trade, and econometrics. His textbooks are Modern Industrial Organization (with Dennis Carlton), Microeconomics, Microeconomics: Theory and Applications with Calculus, Estimating Market Power and Strategies  (with Larry Karp and Amos Golan), and Managerial Economics and Strategy  (with James Brander). He has been an editor of Industrial Relations and the Journal of Industrial Organization Education, and an associate editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and the Journal of Productivity Analysis. He is a fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association. He received his B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.   Cyndi Spindell Berck, M.P.P., J.D., is the principal of International Academic Editorial Services, based in Moraga, California, USA, and former Managing Editor of the Environment for Development (EfD) Discussion Paper series and Research Brief series. She holds degrees in history, law, and public policy from the University of California. She has worked as a practicing attorney, instructor in law, consulting public policy analyst, editor, and writer.