TY - BOOK AU - Harris,Jonathan M. TI - Environmental and natural resource economics : : a contemporary approach / (Acc. 3924) SN - 0618496335 U1 - 333.7 HAR 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - Environmental economics KW - Natural resources KW - Environmental policy N2 - Environmental problems and their local, national, and global solutions play an ever-increasing importance in today's world. The text provides balanced coverage of the traditional environmental topics, together with a global perspective on current ecological issues such as population growth, global climate change, "green" national income accounting, and the relationship between trade and the environment. Economic analysis of environmental problems is essential, but economic perspectives must be complemented with an understanding of the principles of ecological systems. [This book] offers an introduction to the broad perspective of ecological economics together with standard economic theory ER -