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Main Author: Conrad, Jon M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2000
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Online Access:FAW01
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-207) and index
Basic Concepts -- - Renewable, Nonrenewable, and Environmental Resources -- - Discounting -- - A Discrete-Time Extension of the Method of Lagrange Multipliers -- - Solving Numerical Allocation Problems -- - An Optimal Depletion Problem -- - An Optimal Harvest Problem -- - The Economics of Fisheries -- - Net Growth -- - Fishery Production Functions -- - The Yield-Effort Function -- - The Static Model of Open Access -- - The Dynamic Model of Open Access -- - Static Rent Maximization by a Sole Owner -- - Present Value Maximization -- - Traditional Management Policies -- - Bioeconomic Management Policies -- - ITQ Programs in New Zealand, Australia, and Canada -- - The Economics of Forestry -- - The Volume Function and Mean Annual Increment -- - The Optimal Single Rotation -- - The Faustmann Rotation -- - An Example -- - Timber Supply -- - The Optimal Stock of Old-Growth Forest -- - The Economics of Nonrenewable Resources -- - A Simple Model -- - Hotelling's Rule -- - The Inverse Demand Curve -- - Extraction and Price Paths in the Competitive Industry -- - Extraction and Price Paths under Monopoly -- - Reserve-Dependent Costs -- - Exploration -- - The Economic Measure of Scarcity -- - Stock Pollutants -- - The Commodity-Residual Transformation Frontier -- - Damage Functions and Welfare -- - A Degradable Stock Pollutant -- - Diffusion and a Nondegradable Stock Pollutant -- - Optimal Extraction with a Nondegradable Waste -- - Recycling -- - Emission Taxes and Marketable Pollution Permits -- - Option Value and Risky Development -- - Cost-Benefit Analysis -- - Option Value in a Simple Two-Period Model
This is a text for students with a background in calculus, intermediate microeconomics, & are familiar with the spreadsheet software Excel. The book covers basic concepts, & shows how to set up spreadsheets to solve dynamic allocation problems
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 213 pages)
ISBN:0511040237
0511117175
0511814585
0521640121
0521649749
9780511040238
9780511117176
9780511814587
9780521640121
9780521649742

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