Population, Resource and Environmental Economics

Author: Zhong Shuiying, edited by Jian Xinhua
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book is a well-structured population, resources, and environment economics textbook with rigorous theoretical logic, extensive information, strong readability, and close connection to the realities of China. It is divided into 5 parts and 16 chapters, analyzing the relevant factors of population, resources, and environment in the process of achieving sustainable development, and exploring some major theoretical and practical issues. The greatest feature of this book is its focus on sustainable development as the main thread, adhering to the combination of theory and practice, as well as qualitative research and quantitative analysis. On the basis of fully elaborating the connotation, causes, conditions, and pathways of sustainable development, it primarily employs economic methods to analyze the relationship between population, resources, environment, and their changes, along with economic and social development, and explains the requirements of sustainable development for population, resources, and environment. It proposes countermeasures for achieving coordinated development between population, resources, environment, and economic and social progress, thereby forming a complete and integrated system of population, resources, and environment economics. The book extensively incorporates domestic and international research findings, reflects the latest research progress and the actual conditions of China, and integrates the authors' own research achievements. It is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students in economics, management, demography, resource science, environmental science, and related disciplines, as well as researchers and administrators in relevant fields.