pt. I. Approaching the Study of Natural Resource Economics. Ch. 1. Economic Concepts for Examining Natural Resource Use. Ch. 2. Sustainability and Natural Resource Scarcity -- pt. II. The Use of Static or Steady-State Models to Examine Natural Resource Use. Ch. 3. The Valuation and Use of Land and Water. Ch. 4. The Economics of the Fishery: An Introduction. Ch. 5. Regulation of the Fishery. Ch. 6. An Introduction to Environmental Resources: Externalities and Pollution. Ch. 7. Pollution Policy in Practice -- pt. III. Natural Resource Use in an Intertemporal Setting. Ch. 8. Nonrenewable Resource Use: The Theory of Depletion. Ch. 9. Nonrenewable Natural Resource Use: Departures from the Competitive Case and from Fixed Stock Size. Ch. 10. Forest Use. Ch. 11. Dynamic Models of the Fishery. Ch. 12. The Economics of Sustainability