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Scarcity and growth revisited : natural resources and the environment in the new millennium

Ralph David Simpson (Editor), Michael A. Toman (Editor), Robert U. Ayres (Editor)
Provides a fresh investigation of the fundamental issues involved in our dependence on natural resources. This book reviews the debate about scarcity and economic growth and a review of various assessments of natural resource availability and consumption. It includes issues confronting the developing world as well as industrialized societies.
eBook, English, 2005
Resources for the Future, Washington, District of Columbia, 2005
1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations
9781933115108, 9781936331499, 1933115106, 1936331497
1003229120
1: Introduction; 2: Mineral Resources and Consumption in the Twenty-First Century; 3: Economics of Scarcity; 4: Ecosystem Goods and Services and Their Limits; 5: Emerging Scarcities; 6: Sustainability and Its Economic Interpretations; 7: Resources, Scarcity, Technology and Growth; 8: Endogenous Technological Change, Natural Resources, and Growth; 9: Evolutionary Analysis of the Relationship between Economic Growth, Environmental Quality, and Resource Scarcity; 10: Environmental Policy as a Tool for Sustainability; 11: Public Policy; 12: The Marvels and Perils of Modernity; 13: Intragenerational versus Intergenerational Equity; 14: Sustainable Economic Development in the World of Today's Poor
"An RFF Press book"--Title page verso