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1 online resource (267 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents; Preface; Contributors; Chapter 1 Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics; Part I. The Past 50 Years; Part II. Nature-Human and Urban-Rural Interdependence; Part III. Policies and Programs for People and Places; Part IV. The Next 25 Years; Five Subjects on the Frontiers of Resource and Rural Economics; Part I: THE PAST 50 YEARS; Chapter 2 The Emergence and Evolution of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics; The Emergence and Development of the Field; Future Challenges to the Discipline; Choosing Our Future; References; Notes; Chapter 3 Rural Economics |
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Investments, Land, and PeopleLand, People, and Capital; Too Many People; Land as Capital; Continuing Migration; References; Notes; Part II: HUMAN-NATURE AND RURAL-URBAN INTERDEPENDENCE; Chapter 4 Environmental Economics and the "Curse" of the Circular Flow; The Curse of the Circular Flow; Nonseparable Amenities and Welfare Measurement; Removing the Curse: Calibrating CGE Models with Nonmarket Goods; The Numerical Model; Results; Implications; Refere |
| Summary |
Most land in the United States is in rural areas, as are the sources of most of its fresh water and almost all its other natural resources. One of the first books to approach resource economics and rural studies as fundamentally interconnected areas of study, Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics integrates the work of 18 leading scholars in resource economics, rural economics, rural sociology and political science in order to focus on two complex interdependencies-one pertaining to natural resources and human welfare, the other to urban and rural communities and their economies. The book r |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Barkley, Paul W
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Weber, Bruce A
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| ISBN |
9781936331338 |
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1936331330 |
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