1st Edition

Natural Resource Economics Selected Papers

    334 Pages
    by Routledge

    334 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book deals with various aspects of the 'commons' problems; focuses on water-related issues; looks at writings in the conservation area, with particular emphasis on irreversibility and uncertainty; and examines the role of natural resources in economic development.

    Preface -- Introduction -- Biographical Sketch -- Is the Commons A Tragedy? -- Introduction to Part 1 -- Common Property as a Concept in Natural Resources Policy*1 -- The Economics of Environmental Policy*1 -- Criteria and Conditions for Public and Private Ownership of Range Resources*1 -- Water Policy -- Introduction to Part II -- Water Policy and Economic Optimizing: Some Conceptual Problems in Water Research*1 -- Water Economics: Relations to Law and Policy*1 -- Philosophy and Objectives of Watershed Policy* -- Water Quality, A Problem for the Economist*1 -- Water Development Economics -- Introduction to Part III -- Benefit-Cost Analysis and Public Resource Development*1 -- Conceptual Problems in Projecting the Demand for Land and Water*1 -- Cost Allocation in Relation to Western Water Policies*1 -- Irreversibility, Uncertainty, and Conservation -- Introduction to Part IV -- Economics and Policies of Resource Conservation*1 -- Conservation of the California Tule Elk: A Socioeconomic Study of a Survival Problem*1 -- The New Competition for Land and Some Implications for Public Policy*1 -- Conservation and Resource Programming*1 -- Social Objectives of Conservation of Natural Resources with Particular Reference to Taxation of Forests*1 -- Multiple use as a Concept for Water and Range Policy*1 -- Part V Natural Resources in Economic Development -- Introduction to Part V -- Natural Resources in Economic Growth: The Role of Institutions and Policies*1