Environmental Economics (3rd Edition)

Author: (USA) Barry Field
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book is an accessible and widely applicable textbook on environmental economics. The author avoids the complex mathematical formulas and models commonly found in economic literature, providing an easy-to-understand introduction to how economic principles and methods can be used to analyze environmental policy issues and improve their implementation efficiency. Through the inclusion of numerous case studies based on real-world environmental governance, the book makes abstract theories more comprehensible. It serves as an ideal introductory textbook for beginners in environmental economics, having been adopted by prestigious universities such as Duke University and the University of Illinois shortly after publication and listed as one of the preferred textbooks for environmental economics in the United States. This book is an accessible and widely applicable textbook on environmental economics. The author avoids the complex mathematical formulas and models commonly found in economic literature, providing an easy-to-understand introduction to how economic principles and methods can be used to analyze environmental policy issues and improve their implementation efficiency. The book makes abstract theories more comprehensible through the inclusion of numerous case studies based on real-world environmental governance. It serves as an ideal introductory textbook for beginners in environmental economics, having been adopted by prestigious universities such as Duke University and the University of Illinois shortly after publication and listed as one of the preferred textbooks for environmental economics in the United States. This book is supported by a dedicated teaching website and related supplementary teaching materials. Instructors using this book as a textbook are invited to contact us to request supplementary teaching resources.