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      Natural Resources and the Environment in the New Millenium

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      Natural Resources and the Environment in the New Millenium
      Edited ByR. David Simpson, Michael A. Toman, Robert U. Ayres
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2005
      eBook Published 18 July 2005
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781936331499
      Pages 304
      eBook ISBN 9781936331499
      Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Environment and Sustainability
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      Simpson, R.D., Toman, M.A., & Ayres, R.U. (Eds.). (2005). Scarcity and Growth Revisited: Natural Resources and the Environment in the New Millenium (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781936331499

      ABSTRACT

      In this volume, a group of distinguished international scholars provides a fresh investigation of the most fundamental issues involved in our dependence on natural resources. In Scarcity and Growth (RFF, 1963) and Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered (RFF, 1979), researchers considered the long-term implications of resource scarcity for economic growth and human well-being. Scarcity and Growth Revisited examines these implications with 25 years of new learning and experience. It finds that concerns about resource scarcity have changed in essential ways. In contrast with the earlier preoccupation with the adequacy of fuel, mineral, and agricultural resources and the efficiency by which they are allocated, the greatest concern today is about the Earth‘s limited capacity to handle the environmental consequences of resource extraction and use. Opinion among scholars is divided on the ability of technological innovation to ameliorate this 'new scarcity.' However, even the book‘s more optimistic authors agree that the problems will not be successfully overcome without significant advances in the legal, financial, and other social institutions that protect the environment and support technical innovation. Scarcity and Growth Revisited incorporates expert perspectives from the physical and life sciences, as well as economics. It includes issues confronting the developing world as well as industrialized societies. The book begins with a review of the debate about scarcity and economic growth and a review of current assessments of natural resource availability and consumption. The twelve chapters that follow provide an accessible, lively, and authoritative update to an enduring-but changing-debate.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|32 pages

      Introduction: The "New Scarcity"

      chapter 2|21 pages

      Mineral Resources and Consumption in the Twenty-First Century

      chapter 3|24 pages

      Economics of Scarcity: The State of the Debate

      chapter 4|20 pages

      Ecosystem Goods and Services and Their Limits: The Roles of Biological Diversity and Management Practices

      chapter 5|23 pages

      Emerging Scarcities: Bioenergy-Food Competition in a Carbon Constrained World

      chapter 6|21 pages

      Sustainability and Its Economic Interpretations

      chapter 7|13 pages

      Resources, Scarcity, Technology and Growth

      chapter 8|22 pages

      Endogenous Technological Change, Natural Resources, and Growth

      chapter 9|21 pages

      Evolutionary Analysis of the Relationship between Economic Growth, Environmental Quality, and Resource Scarcity

      chapter 10|27 pages

      Environmental Policy as a Tool for Sustainability

      chapter 11|25 pages

      Public Policy: Inducing Investment in Innovation

      chapter 12|11 pages

      The Marvels and Perils of Modernity: A Comment

      chapter 13|6 pages

      Intragenerational versus Intergenerational Equity: Views from the South

      chapter 14|16 pages

      Sustainable Economic Development in the World of Today's Poor

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