The Sixth Edition of this best-selling text introduces students to a thorough study of environmental and natural resource economics. In continuing the trend toward a more international focus, Tietenberg pays increased attention to environmental problems and policies in Eastern and Western Europe, China, and developing nations. In addition, an explicit integration of research and policy within each chapter connects actual examples to economic theory, giving students a context within which to understand the material. INDICE 1. Visions of the Future. 2. Valuing the Environment: Concepts. 3. Valuing the Environment: Methods. 4. Property Rights, Externalities, and Environmental Problems. 5. Sustainable Development: Defining the Concept. 6. The Population Problem. 7. The Allocation of Depletable and Renewable Resources. 8. Depletable, Non-recyclable Energy Resources: Oil, Gas, Coal and Uranium. 9. Recyclable Resources: Minerals, Paper, Glass, etc. 10. Replenishable but Depletable Resources: Water. 11. Reproducible Private-Property Resources: Agriculture. 12. Storable, Renewable Resources: Forests. 13. Renewable Common-Property Resources: Fisheries and Other Species. 14. Generalized Resource Scarcity. 15. Economics of Pollution Control: An Overview. 16. Stationary-Source Local Air Pollution. 17. Regional and Global Air Pollutants: Acid Rain and Atmospheric Modification. 18. Mobile-Source Air Pollution. 19. Water Pollution. 20. Toxic Substances. 21. Environmental Justice. 22. Development, Poverty, and the Environment. 23. The Quest for Sustainable Development. 24. Visions of the Future Revisited