Economics of Environmental Conservation, Second Edition

Clement Tisdell

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Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
ISBN: 9781843766148
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Economics and the living environment

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Ch 2 Global conservation strategies and concerns

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Ch 3 Markets and government intervention in environmental conservation

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Ch 4 Environmental conservation in developing countries

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Ch 5 Preservation of wildlife and genetic diversity

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Ch 6 Open-access, common-property and natural resource management

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Ch 7 Economics of conserving natural areas and valuation techniques

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Ch 8 Forestry, trees and conservation

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Ch 9 Agriculture and the environment

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Ch 10 Tourism, outdoor recreation and the natural environment

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Ch 11 Sustainable development and conservation

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Ch 12 Population, economic growth, globalisation and conservation: a concluding perspective

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