Economics of environmental conservation : economics for environmental & ecological management / by Clement A. Tisdell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Economics and the Living Environment -- Introduction -- Welfare economics, environment and the Biosphere -- Ethics, values and environmental economics: alternative views -- Economic growth, dynamics, uncertainty and the environment: differing views -- Environmental quality and resource availability trends: broad estimates and projections -- Conclusion -- 2. Strategies for World Conservation: an Economic Assessment -- Introduction -- A classification of conservation policies -- The World Conservation Strategy: its origins, aims and basic principles -- Ecological processes and life-support systems: agriculture, forests, coastal and freshwater systems -- Preservation of genetic diversity -- Sustainable utilisation of species and ecosystems -- International conservation concerns and priorities -- Organisational and social aspects of conservation -- Concluding comments -- 3. Government Intervention in Environmental Conservation: Rationale and Methods -- Introduction -- Externalities or spillovers -- Government policies 'to correct' for externalities -- Public or collective good characteristics associated with the conservation of nature -- Option demands, transaction costs, more on existence values, bequest, irreversibility and uncertainty -- Discount rates as grounds for government intervention -- Monopolies and conservation -- Common property and intervention -- Failure of political and administrative mechanisms in relation to conservation -- Concluding comment -- 4. Environmental Conservation in Developing Countries -- Introduction -- Basic conservation problems in the Third World: origin -- Population growth and income aspirations -- Expansion of themarket system -- New technology -- Problems illustrated by some cases -- High effective rates of discount -- Difficulties in enforcing conservation measures and questions of social structure -- Policies for influencing and improving conservation practices in the Third World -- Provision of information and education -- Appropriating greater gains nationally from conservation -- Tourism as a means of appropriating gains from conservation -- Improving distribution of gains from conservation within LDCs -- International aid and assistance, loans and trade -- Global public good /externality considerations -- 5. Preservation of Wildlife and Genetic Diversity -- Introduction -- Managing wildlife as a mixed good: simple analytics -- Some economic consequences of interdependence between species -- Criteria for deciding on species to save from extinction -- Concluding comments -- 6. Common Property and Natural Resource Management -- Types of property and general consequences -- Common access: economic failures and their consequences -- Policies for managing common-access resources -- Ranching and farming as means to overcome common-access problems and conserve species -- Concluding comment -- 7. Economics of Conserving Natural Areas: National Parks and Protected Areas -- Introduction: nature and availability of natural areas -- Benefits and uses of natural protected areas -- Travel cost method of estimating the value of a natural area -- Contingency valuation of natural areas -- Hedonic price valuation of natural areas -- Back to some fundamentals of economic valuation -- Concluding comments -- 8. Forestry, Trees and Conservation -- Introduction: forest cover and uses -- Commercial forestry for timber production -- Multiple purpose management of forests -- Forests and trees in less developed countries -- Economic policies, pollution, forests and trees -- Concluding remarks -- 9. Agriculture and the Environment -- Introduction -- Externalities and agriculture -- Sustainability of agricultural systems -- The Green Revolution, organic agriculture, permaculture -- Pest and disease control in agriculture -- Agriculture, biodiversity, trees and wildlife conservation -- Concluding observations -- 10. Tourism, Outdoor Recreation and the Natural Environment -- Introductory issues, dependence of tourism on the natural environment -- Tourism destroys tourism and tourism assets -- Tourism-area cycle and more on the dynamics of tourism -- Impact of pollution and environmental damage on tourism and benefits from pollution control -- Conflicts between tourists, variety in tourist areas, public finance issues and national gains -- Concluding observations -- 11. Sustainable Development and Conservation -- Background -- Sustaining intergenerational economic welfare -- Survival of the human species for as long as possible -- Issues raised by the views of Daly and Georgescu-Roegen about sustainability -- Resilience of production and economic systems and stationarity of their attributes -- Cost-benefit analysis and sustainability -- Sustainability of community -- Sustaining biodiversity -- Concluding remarks -- 12. Population, Development and Prospects for Environmental Sustainability: a Concluding Perspective -- Introduction -- Global population levels, characteristics and projections -- Environmental consequences of population growth and economics -- Global sustainable development objectives as formulated by WIDER -- Can the sustainable development targets be achieved and are they likely to be achieved in practice? Concluding remarks.

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