Preface
New to this edition
An overview of the book

1. Visions of the future
2. The economic approach: Property rights, externalities, and environmental problems
3. Evaluating trade-offs: Benefit-cost analysis and other decision making metrics
4. Valuing the environment: Methods
5. Dynamic efficiency and sustainable development
6. Depletable resource allocation: The role of longer time horizons, substitutes, and extraction cost
7. Energy: The transition from depletable to renewable resources
8. Recyclable resources: Minerals, paper, bottles, and e-waste
9. Water: A confluence of renewable and depletable resources
10. A locationally fixed, multipurpose resource: Land
11. Storable, renewable resources: Forests
12. Common-pool resources: Commercially valuable fisheries
13. Ecosystem goods and services: Nature's threatended bounty
14. Economics of pollution control: An overview
15. Stationary-source local and regional air pollution
16. Mobile-source air pollution
17. Climate change
18. Water pollution
19. Toxic substances and environmental justice
20. The quest for sustainable development
21. Visions of the future revistied

Answers to self-test exercises
Glossary
Index