TY - BOOK ID - 375913 TI - Resource economics PY - 2010 SN - 9780521697675 9780521874953 0521697670 0521874955 0511852460 9786612908217 0511931271 0511932626 0511924895 0511929943 0511781083 1282908219 0511927436 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Environmental protection. Environmental technology KW - Natural resources KW - Resource allocation KW - Social Sciences and Humanities. Economics KW - Management KW - Mathematical models. KW - Environmental Economics KW - Natural Resource Economics KW - Natural Resource Economics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:375913 AB - "Resource Economics is a text for students with a background in calculus and intermediate microeconomics and a familiarity with the spreadsheet software Excel. The book covers basic concepts (Chapter 1), shows how to set up spreadsheets to solve simple dynamic allocation problems (Chapter 2), and presents economic models for fisheries, forestry, nonrenewable resources, and stock pollutants (Chapters 3-6). Chapter 7 examines the maximin utility criterion when the utility of a generation depends on consumption of a manufactured good, harvest from a renewable resource, and extraction from a nonrenewable resource. Within the text, numerical examples are posed and solved using Excel's Solver. Exercises are included at the end of each chapter. These problems help make concepts operational, develop economic intuition, and serve as a bridge to the study of real-world problems in resource management"-- ER -