Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Ch. 1. Visions of the future -- Ch. 2. Valuing the environment : concepts -- Ch. 3. Valuing the environment : methods -- Ch. 4. Property rights, externalities, and environmental problems -- Ch. 5. Sustainable development : defining the concept -- Ch. 6. The population problem -- Ch. 7. The allocation of depletable and renewable resources : an overview -- Ch. 8. Depletable, nonrecyclable energy resources : oil, gas, coal, and uranium -- Ch. 9. Recyclable resources : minerals, paper, glass, and more -- Ch. 10. Replenishable but depletable resources : water -- Ch. 11. Reproducible private-property resources : agriculture -- Ch. 12. Storable, renewable resources : forests -- Ch. 13. Renewable common-pool resources : fisheries and other species -- Ch. 14. Generalized resource scarcity -- Ch. 15. Economics of pollution control : an overview -- Ch. 16. Stationary-source local air pollution -- Ch. 17. Regional and global air pollutants : acid rain and atmospheric modification -- Ch. 18. Mobile-source air pollution -- Ch. 19. Water pollution -- Ch. 20. Toxic substances -- Ch. 21. Environmental justice -- Ch. 22. Development, poverty, and the environment -- Ch. 23. The quest for sustainable development -- Ch. 24. Visions of the future revisited.