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Scarcity and growth revisited : natural resources and the environment in the new millennium /

In this volume, a group of distinguished international scholars provides a fresh investigation of the most fundamental issues involved in our dependence on natural resources. In Scarcity and Growth (1963) and Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered (1979), researchers considered the long-term implications...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Simpson, Ralph David, Toman, Michael A., Ayres, Robert U.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, [2005]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the "new scarcity" / R. David Simpson, Michael A. Toman, Robert U. Ayres
  • Mineral resources and consumption in the twenty-first century / W. David Menzie, Donald A. Singer, John H. DeYoung
  • Economics of scarcity: the state of the debate / Jeffrey A. Krautkraemer
  • Ecosystem goods and services and their limits: the roles of biological diversity and management practices / David Tilman, Stephen Polasky
  • Emerging scarcities: bioenergy-food competition in a carbon constrained world / Christian Azar
  • Sustainability and its economic interpretations / John C.V. Pezzey, Michael A. Toman
  • Resources, scarcity, technology, and growth / Robert U. Ayres
  • Endogenous technological change, natural resources, and growth / Sjak Smulders
  • Evolutionary analysis of the relationship between economic growth, environmental quality, and resource scarcity / Jeroen C.J.M van den Bergh
  • Environmental policy as a tool for sustainability / David Pearce
  • Public Policy: inducing investment in innovation / Molly K. Macauley
  • The marvels and perils of modernity: a comment / Sylvie Faucheux
  • Intragenerational versus intergenerational equity: views from the south / Ramón López
  • Sustainable economic development in the world of today's poor / Partha Dasgupta.