Re: [PEN-L] query: national parks

[Leigh Meyers]

Jim Devine wrote:

does anyone know of a relatively analytical book on the economics (and
political economy) of the U.S. national parks?

--
Jim Devine / "But the wage of sin don't adjust for inflation. It's a
buyer's market when you sell your soul." -- Jeffery Foucault, "Ghost
Repeater."


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I used Questia and this turned up on a search for Economics AND 
"National Parks".

The Preface claims it is Junior/Sophmore material

Principles of Environmental Economics: Economics, Ecology and Public Policy
Book by Ahmed M. Hussen; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Ecology, Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy

PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS

This text offers a systematic...environmental and natural resource 
economics. It presents the economic and ecological...as just another 
subset of applied economics. The main subject areas include... 


[Not sure if the search is pasword protected]

First page of the Preface:
Preface

The primary objective of this book is to present the economic and 
ecological principles essential for a clear understanding of the complex 
contemporary environmental and natural resource issues and policy 
considerations. Several textbooks have been written on this subject in 
recent years. One may ask, then, what exactly differentiates this one 
from the others?

LEVEL

This book is written for an introductory-level course in environmental 
and resource economics. It is primarily designed for college sophomores 
and juniors who want to study environmental and resource concerns with 
an interdisciplinary focus. The academic majors of these students could 
be in any field of study, but the book would be especially appropriate 
for students with majors in economics, political science, environmental 
studies or biological sciences.


Several other textbooks may claim to have the above-stated features. 
However, very few, if any, offer two chapters that are exclusively 
designed to provide students with fundamental economic concepts 
specifically relevant to environmental and resource economics. In these 
chapters, economic concepts such as demand and supply analysis, 
willingness to pay, consumers’ and producers’ surplus, rent, marginal 
analysis, Pareto optimality, factor substitution and alternative 
economic measures of scarcity are thoroughly and systematically 
explained. The material in these two chapters (Chapters 2 and 3) is 
optional. They are intended to serve as a good review for economics 
students and a very valuable foundation for students with a major in a 
field other than economics. This book requires no more than a semester 
course in microeconomics. Thus, unlike many other textbooks in this 
field, it does not demand a knowledge of intermediate micro-economics, 
either implicitly or explicitly.


The claim that environmental and resource economics should be studied 
within an interdisciplinary context is taken very seriously. Such a 
context requires students to have, in addition to microeconomics, a good 
understanding of the basic principles of the natural and physical 
sciences that govern the natural world. This book addresses this concern 
by devoting


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[PEN-L] query: national parks

[Jim Devine]

does anyone know of a relatively analytical book on the economics (and
political economy) of the U.S. national parks?

--
Jim Devine / "But the wage of sin don't adjust for inflation. It's a
buyer's market when you sell your soul." -- Jeffery Foucault, "Ghost
Repeater."