Key Features:First book of its kind in the fieldExamines and analyzes how key tools are used to conduct theoretical and empirical research in natural resource and environmental economics in contemporary timesCompiles various articles and accounts concerned with the relevant pedagogical...

Significant advances have now occurred in the theoretical and in the empirical knowledge-base of researchers studying problems in natural resource and environmental economics. This has been accompanied by the utilization of many and varied research tools. These developments notwithstanding,...

Meta-analysis is a formal synthesis of results and findings of scientific studies, which can assist in gaining new insights, explaining differences between results of similar studies, or determine useful directions of research. In this book we focus on the use of meta-analysis in environmental...

1. The Challenge of Sustainable Development -- 2. ‘Our Common Future’, Sustaining the Momentum -- 3. Ecological Sustainability and Economic Development -- 4. Towards Sustainable Development: an Environmental Perspective -- 5. Steady-State and Growth Concepts for the Next Century -- 6....