Lecture Notes On Environmental And Resource Economics: A Theoretical Introduction (World Scientific Lecture Notes in Economics and Policy) - Hardcover

Zeeuw, Aart De

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9819808014 ISBN 13: 9789819808014

Publisher: WSPC, 2025

Synopsis

This set of lecture notes contains basic theory in environmental and resource economics. It covers not only the traditional topics pollution targets and instruments, renewable and non-renewable resources, growth, trade, and valuation, but also the newer topics international aspects, stock pollution and tipping points. The lectures focus on the main concepts, models, and results in the core areas of environmental and resource economics, and form the basis for extensions, applications, and policy issues in the courses. The book is compact and can serve as a basic text for a course in environmental and resource economics at the advanced undergraduate level. It can also be useful as a reference text at the graduate level or for research. The mathematics in the main text is elementary, with more advanced mathematical analyses in the appendices. The book provides a precise account of the essentials in environmental and resource economics.

About this title

About the Author

Prof. Dr. Aart de Zeeuw (1952) studied mathematics at the University of Groningen and received his PhD in economics at Tilburg University, both in the Netherlands. He has been professor of quantitative economics from 1989 until 1993, and since 1993 professor of environmental economics at Tilburg University. From 2006 until 2009, he has also been co-director of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Sweden. Aart de Zeeuw has served as president of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists from 1998 until 2000, and as a co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management from 2004 until 2008. At Tilburg University, he held several other positions such as dean of the Faculty of Economics from 1992 till 1994, director of graduate studies from 1998 till 2001, scientific director of CentER from 2005 till 2007, and scientific director of the Tilburg Sustainability Center from 2009 till 2013. He has been a member of the Netherlands Advisory Council for Research on Nature and Environment (RMNO) and an advisor to the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). In 2017, he received the Tjalling C Koopmans medal from Tilburg University. Prof. Dr. Aart de Zeeuw published in a wide range of scientific economic journals. His main research interests focus on international environmental agreements and the economics of dynamical ecological systems. He was awarded the EAERE Lifetime Achievement Award in Environmental Economics in 2018, and he became EAERE Fellow in 2019.

Edition details

• Publisher: WSPC
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9819808014
• ISBN 13: 9789819808014
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 202