Product Description

The Economics of Nature Management takes a unique "portfolio management" perspective on the worldwide deterioration of the natural environment.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1508025 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 528 pages

Review
"This book is a significant resource both as a foundational reference in the field and as a graduate text. It goes immediately to the question of how fast we should disinvest in natural capital and how we use economic tools to determine the answer to that question. With its unusual combination of depth and focus, it is a real contribution to the current literature on the economic assessment and management of biological resources. There are presently no texts that are as inclusive and simultaneously as advanced as this one." Jane V. Hall, California State University–Fullerton

From the Back Cover
The Economics of Nature Management takes a unique "portfolio management" perspective on the worldwide deterioration of the natural environment. For many emerging countries, nature conservation boils down to the purely economic decision of "investing" limited funds in nature potentially at the expense of investing in other necessary imperatives such as education or infrastructure. As a result, the authors see the function of the book as twofold. First, to measure environmental services and biological assets and second it demonstrates how it applies the economic theory of nature management through case studies.

About the Author
G. Cornelis van Kooten is Professor in Agricultural Sciences and Forestry as well as Associate Director of the Forest Economics and Policy Analysis (FEPA) Research Unit at the University of British Columbia. He is on the editorial boards of several international journals, and has published more than 100 articles and books on natural resource and environmental economics as they relate to agriculture and forestry.

Erwin H. Bulte is Assistant Professor in Tilburg University′s Department of Economics and in Wageningen University′s Department of Economics and Management. He has published widely in the areas of endangered species conservation, renewable resource management, and forestry. He serves as Secretary General of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE).