Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (7th Edition) [Hardcover]

Tom Tietenberg (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0321305043 | ISBN-13: 978-0321305046 | Publication Date: August 13, 2005 | Edition: 7

With a tight integration of public policy and economic theory, this best-selling text provides a well-rounded introduction to the field. Tietenberg's extensive work in research and policy lends a crucial real-world context, so that students explore the latest questions and debates. The Seventh Edition offers a wealth of new examples and hot topics such as genetically modified organisms and the cost-effectiveness of new transportation fuels. International issues receive increased attention through discussions of environmental problems and policies in Western Europe, China, and developing nations.

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About the Author

Tom Tietenberg is the author or editor of eleven books (including Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Eighth Edition, and Environmental Economics and Policy, Fifth Edition), as well as over one hundred articles and essays on environmental and natural resource economics. After receiving his PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1971, Tietenberg was elected President of the Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists (AERE) in 1987. He has consulted on environmental policy with the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the Agency for International Development, and the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as several state and foreign governments. In 1992, Tietenberg spoke at the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has lectured on sustainable development at many other conferences around the world. In 2006, he was designated one of six inaugural AERE Fellows. He is currently the Mitchell Family Economics Professor at Colby College, where his research focuses on the design and evaluation of economic incentive mechanisms for environmental protection and tradable permit systems for pollution control and fisheries management.

Lynne Lewis is Chair of the economics department at Bates College where she teaches microeconomics, environmental economics, natural resource economics, and valuation. Lewis received her PhD in economics from the University of Colorado in 1994 after finishing a two-year dissertation fellowship at the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Her dissertation received the Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR) Dissertation Award in 1995. Currently, she is working on a research grant focused on valuing the potential benefits from dam removals and river restoration. She has also worked extensively on the economics of transboundary water resources, tradable permits for pollution control and the valuation of environmental amenities and disamenities within watersheds and coastal zones. She currently serves on the Board of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, the Penobscot River Science Steering Committee, and the Advisory Board of Mitchell Center for Environment and Watershed Research. She received the Friend of UCOWR award in 2005.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 656 pages
• Publisher: Addison Wesley; 7 edition (August 13, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321305043
• ISBN-13: 978-0321305046
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #229,887 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Out of Date, April 27, 2004

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This review is from: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Sixth Edition (Hardcover)

The book is hopelessly out of date. Although it carries a 2003 publication date, it still refers to the USSR and Czechoslovakia in the present tense. It consistently refers to studies done in the 1980s as recent and less than 25% of the examples, charts. etc. use data from 1990 or later. For example, only 5 out of 37 references in the chapter on Economic Justice are more recent than 1990, and the most recent is 1994. This is typical of just about every chapter. One gets the feeling that the publisher never reviewed this revided edition.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (8th Edition), June 26, 2011

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This review is from: Environmental & Natural Resource Economics (8th Edition) (Paperback)

I was not crazy about this book, for its difficulty to skim. Key words and concepts are not specifically highlighted in the text in any obvious way, except making glossary words italicized, which makes them more difficult to spot that if they were bold or something, for the purposes of skimming and taking notes. It did have good summary's at the end of each chapter though, and there are a lot of good online resources for this book as well. I also liked the plethora of case studies that this book uses as examples.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Introduction to EE concepts, January 20, 2006

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Lenny (Washington, DC, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Sixth Edition (Hardcover)

Tietenberg is a big player in evironmental economics, and clearly lays out the fundamentals of environmental and natural resources economics accessible to those without significant economics training.