Environmental and Natural Resource Economics A Contemporary Approach 3rd edition by Jonathan M. Harris
ISBN-13? 9780765637925
The third edition of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary
Approach maintains its essential focus on making environmental issues
accessible to a broad range of students. The text is a product of twenty years of
teaching environmental and natural resource economics at the undergraduate and
graduate levels. It reflects the conviction that environmental issues are of fundamental
importance and that a broad approach to understanding the relationship of
the human economy and the natural world is essential.
Typically, students come to an environmental economics course with an awareness
that environmental problems are serious and that local, national, and global
policy solutions are needed. Some students may be interested in careers in environmental
policy; others in gaining an understanding of issues that are likely to
be relevant in their careers, personal lives, and communities. In either case, the
current importance of the topics gives the course a special spark of enthusiasm
that is a heaven-sent boon to any instructor trying to breathe life into marginal cost
and benefit curves.
