Economics of Environmental Conservation, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)

This fully updated and comprehensively revised edition of a classic text concentrates on the economics of conserving the living environment. It begins by covering the ethical foundations and basic economic paradigms' essential for understanding and assessing ecological economics. General strategies for global environmental conservation, policies for government intervention, developing countries, preserving wildlife and biodiversity, open-access to and common property in natural resources, conservation of natural areas, forestry, agriculture and the environment, tourism, sustainable development and demographic change are also all covered. This second edition deals with contemporary environmental policy issues that can be expected to be of lasting concern and importance - each chapter benefiting from either the addition of substantial sections of new material, valuable explanations or updates and revisions in light of developments in theory or world events and conditions. Updated techniques of economic analysis are also introduced, explained simply, and applied as appropriate. Economics of Environmental Conservation, Second Edition is written in an engaging and accessible manner and as such will be warmly received by both specialists and non-specialists in economics. It will find a wide readership amongst academics and policymakers in the fields of ecological, environmental and natural resource economics as well as those involved in development studies, environmental management and science, and conservation ecology and biology. Particular chapters will be of interest to those in tourism studies, agriculture, wildlife management and forestr

General

Imprint:	Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2007
Authors:	Clement A. Tisdell
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
Edition:	2nd edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-84720-256-7
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > General
LSN:	1-84720-256-X
Barcode:	9781847202567

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