A growing concern for environmental quality and resource scarcity has led to numerous policy debates regarding resource utilization around the world. This is especially true when it comes to agriculture. This important new textbook in the Oxford Series in Biological Resource Management brings together economic theory and resource-specific problems of agriculture and presents aggregate and micro-level models and examples for most resource and environmental issues. The discussions emphasize cropland agriculture, and also include examples from livestock, poultry, grazing, fisheries, orchards, and forestry. Students and professionals in resource economics, management, and allocation will benefit from this timely work as will economists and planners in government agencies.
A textbook bringing together economic theory and resource-specific problems of agriculture and presenting aggregate and micro-level models and examples for most resource and environmental issues. The discussions emphasize cropland agriculture, and also include examples from livestock, poultry, grazing, fisheries, orchards, and forestry. For advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in resource economics, as well as graduate level professional programs in resource management and resource policy. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
A growing concern for environmental quality and resource scarcity has led to numerous policy debates regarding resource utilization around the world. This is especially true when it comes to agriculture. This textbook brings together economic theory and resource-specific problems of agriculture, and includes aggregate- and micro-level models and examples for most resource and environmental issues. Although the book's emphasis is on cropland agriculture, there are also examples from livestock, poultry, grazing, fisheries, orchards, and forestry. Students and professionals in resource economics, management, and policy as well as economists and planners in government agencies will benefit from the valuable lessons presented here.
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This book will be most useful as a source of material on environmental and resource economics in the classroom and as a textbook for beginning graduate students ... the book can be highly recommended to all policy analysts, researchers and practitioners interested in agricultural resource economics irrespective of their background knowledge in this field. European Review of Agricultural Economics This is a text that should be attractive to a wide audience from the undergraduate student to the post-doctoral researcher and policy-maker ... Carlson, Zilberman and Miranowski bring a wealth of expertise to the agricultural and environmental resource economics field, and this text is undoubtedly amongst the best currently available in this subject area. Students looking to build on the fundamentals of environmental and resource economics gained from less detailed texts, could do far worse than to start here. Environmental Politics
1. Agriculture Resource Economics: An Overview, J.A. Miranowski and G.A. Carlson2. Some Microeconomics of Agricultural Resource Use, R. Howitt and C.R. Taylor3. The Economics of Nonrenewable Resources, D. Zilberman, M. Wetzstein, and M. Marra4. Aggregate Evaluation Concepts and Models, C.R. Taylor and R. Howitt5. Technological Innovation, Agricultural Productivity, and Environmental Quality, J.M. Antle and T. McGuckin6. Agricultural Externalities, D. Zilberman and M. Marra7. Pesticides and Pest Management, G.A. Carlson and M. Wetzstein8. Economics of Water Use in Agriculture, W. Boggess, R. Lacewell, and D. Zilberman9. Economics of Land Use in Agriculture, J.A. Miranowski and M. Cochran10. Agricultural Resource Policy, K. Reichelderfed and R.A. Kramer11. Emerging Resource Issues in World Agriculture, G.A. Carlson and D. Zilberman
Gerald A. Carlson, Ph.D., is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University. David Zilberman, Ph.D., is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. John A. Miranowski, Ph.D., is Director of the Resources and Technology Division for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
