 |
|  |  |  |  |
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Jonathan M. Harris, Tufts University
|  |  |
 |  | Chapter Review Questions
Chapter 1: Changing Perspectives on the Environment
- What are some of the differences between neoclassical natural resource and environmental economics and ecological economics?
- What is carrying capacity and how does it relate to sustainable development?
- What is the standard circular flow model? How are natural resources included in the model?
- How does the broader ecological circular flow model extend the standard model? What is the primary input? What is the primary output?
- What is the source function? What is the sink function? How can these be affected by human activities?
- What are some of the microeconomic techniques used by standard natural resource and environmental economists?
- What is environmental macroeconomics? What is the importance of macroeconomic scale?
- What are some of the natural cycles relevant to environmental macroeconomics?
- What is the relationship between economic activity and throughput?
- What is sustainable development?
|
|  |
|  |
|
|
|