Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Introduction to dynamic and stochastic resource economics : essays on biodiversity, invasive species, joint systems, and regulation -- Natural resource management -- On some aspects of the management of a stochastically developing forest -- On the choice...

1 The Classical Roots of Resource Economics -- 2 Optimal Depletion of Exhaustible Resources -- 3 Renewable Resources -- 4 Environmental Resources: Dynamics, Irreversibility and Option Value -- 5 Resources, Growth and Sustainability -- 6 Climate: The Ultimate Resource?.

This book, based on lectures on natural and environmental resource economics, offers a nontechnical exposition of the modern theory of sustainability in the presence of resource scarcity. It applies an alternative take on environmental economics, focusing on the economics of the natural...