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

~ Tom Tietenberg (Author)

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Product Description

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.

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 an alternate Hardcover 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 (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #571,186 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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26 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Out of Date, April 27, 2004

By A Customer

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.

1.0 out of 5 stars Force Amazon to Reform their rating and Commenting Policy!!!!!!!!!, October 2, 2009

By	Kevin Neuburger (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

Amazon currently makes it their policy to roll comments from a previous edition of a publication over to the new edition, without discretion. This is a complete false representation both of the commenter, the actual comment, and of the text itself. Why publishers allow this is beyond my understanding. However, we as customers should not allow it.

Take issue with this outrageous policy!!

Case in point, how is it that a comment was generated in 2004 for a text that was published in 2008? Is this helpful, Amazon asks. NO!!!

As for the book, I have no comment. I have not bought it because I cant find an ACTUAL review. However, this post is worth more than any other for the text seeing as how the others have absolutely no relevance at all to the current 2008 text.

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor textbook, especially on the economics side - could be about 300 pages shorter., July 12, 2009

By	TheGander "Lonnie" (Midwest, USA) - See all my reviews

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

This text book is very wordy and does not have enough economic examples or principles. Additionally, it is also very bias towards environmentalists, often coming across as a 'green' promoter, rather than an economics text that explains both sides of the story.