Alfred Endres is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Hagen, Germany, and Permanent Visiting Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany. He has also taught at the Technical University of Berlin, Zhejiang University at Hangzhou, China, and the State University of New York at Buffalo. He held visiting appointments at the University of Florida, the University of California, San Diego and La Trobe University, Melbourne. He is the author of 14 books on environmental economics, applied economics, and microeconomics. Professor Endres is a member of the Review Panel for the Swiss National Competence Center for Research on Climate Change and was a member of the Peer Review Committee for the Environmental Action Program of the European Union. He is the author of numerous articles in journals such as the Canadian Journal of Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Industrial Economics, Public Choice and Social Choice and Welfare.Volker Radke is Professor of Economics at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Ravensburg, Germany. He also taught at the University of Dortmund and the University of Hagen, both Germany. He published several books and articles in journals, especially on the topic of sustainable development and its indicators.

• 1 Introduction.- Part I: Economics - What Is It About and How Does It Relate to the Natural Environment? - 2 The Fundamental Problem.- 3 The Economic Approach.- 4 Integration of the Natural Environment: Socially Undesirable Utilization of Natural Goods.- 5 Summary to Part I and Looking Ahead.- Part II: Microeconomics and the Natural Environment.- 6 Fundamental Concepts of Microeconomics.- 7 A Sketch on Environmental Microeconomics.- 8 Summary to Part II and Looking Ahead.- Part III: Macroeconomics and the Natural Environment.- 9 Fundamental Concepts of Macroeconomics.- 10 A Sketch on Environmental Macroeconomics.- 11 Summary to Part III.- Glossary.- Index.