目次

1. Visions of the Future   2. The Economic Approach: Property Rights, Externalities, and Environmental Problems   3. Evaluating Trade-Offs: Benefit-Cost Analysis and Other Decision-Making Metrics  4. Valuing the Environment: Methods  5. Dynamic Efficiency and Sustainable Development  6. Depletable Resource Allocation: The Role of Longer Time Horizons, Substitutes, and Extraction Cost  7. Energy: The Transition from Depletable to Renewable Resources  8. Recyclable Resources: Minerals, Paper, Bottles, and E-Waste  9. Water: A Confluence of Renewable and Depletable Resources  10. A Locationally Fixed, Multipurpose Resource: Land   11. Storable, Renewable Resources: Forests  12. Common-Pool Resources: Commercially Valuable Fisheries   13. Ecosystem Goods and Services: Nature's Threatened Bounty  14. Economics of Pollution Control: An Overview  15. Stationary-Source Local and Regional Air Pollution   16. Climate Change   17. Mobile-Source Air Pollution  18. Water Pollution   19. Toxic Substances and Environmental Justice  20. The Quest for Sustainable Development   21. Visions of the Future Revisited