This book does several things differently from other texl:books in this area.The first is the division into theory (Chapters 1 to 6) and application (Chapters 7 to 19). The second organizational difference that distinguishes this textbook from others is the integration of environmental and resource economics.

Part I Theory and Tools of Environmental and Resource Economics

 Chapter 1 Introduction

 Chapter 2 Economic Efficiency .rod Markets: How the Invisible Hand Work

 Chapter 3 Government Intervention in Market Failure

 Chapter 4 Valuing the Enviromcnt

 Chapter 5 Environmental Decisi n Making: Criteria and Method of Assessment

 Chapter 6 The Macroeconomic of the Envirmment

Part II Exhaustible Resources,Pollution, and the Environment Ozone Depletion and Global Climate Change

 Chapter 8 Energy Production ant the Envinnment

 Chapter 9 The Use of Energy axed the Envir,omnent

 Chapter 10 Material Policy: Minerals, Materials, and Slid Waste

Part III Renewable Resources and the Environment

 Chapter 11 Fisheries

 Chapter 12 Temperate Forests

 Chapter 13 Tropical Forests

 Chapter 14 Biodiversity and Habitat Preservation

 Chapter 15 Water Resources

Part IV Further Topics

 Chapter 16 Toxins in the Ecosystem

 Chapter 17 Agriculture and the E.nvironment

 Chapter 18 The Environment and Economic Growth in Third World Com~.tries

 Chapter 19 Prospects for the Future