Agricultural and Environmental Resource Economics

Gerald A. Carlson, Ph.D., is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University. David Zilberman, Ph.D., is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. John A. Miranowski, Ph.D., is Director of the Resources and Technology Division for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

• 1. Agriculture Resource Economics: An Overview ; 2. Some Microeconomics of Agricultural Resource Use ; 3. The Economics of Nonrenewable Resources ; 4. Aggregate Evaluation Concepts and Models ; 5. Technological Innovation, Agricultural Productivity,and Environmental Quality ; 6. Agricultural Externalities ; 7. Pesticides and Pest Management ; 8. Economics of Water Use in Agriculture ; 9. Economics of Land Use in Agriculture ; 10. Agricultural Resource Policy ; 11. Emerging Resource Issues in World Agriculture

This book will be most useful as a source of material on environmental and resource economics in the classroom and as a textbook for beginning graduate students ... the book can be highly recommended to all policy analysts, researchers and practitioners interested in agricultural resource economics irrespective of their background knowledge in this field. European Review of Agricultural Economics This is a text that should be attractive to a wide audience from the undergraduate student to the post-doctoral researcher and policy-maker ... Carlson, Zilberman and Miranowski bring a wealth of expertise to the agricultural and environmental resource economics field, and this text is undoubtedly amongst the best currently available in this subject area. Students looking to build on the fundamentals of environmental and resource economics gained from less detailed texts, could do far worse than to start here. Environmental Politics