Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
- ISBN-10
- 0813829380
- ISBN-13
- 9780813829388
- Series
- Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
- Category
- Technology & Engineering
- Pages
- 374
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-05-12
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Author
- Tony Prato
Description
Utilizes basic concepts of economics and finance to explain the relationship of the economy to the ecosystem, seeing the ecosystem as imposing biophysical constraints on economic growth. Means of sustainable economic development and sustainable resource use are stressed. Background material and alternative, more efficient, problem-solving approaches are included.
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