scholarly journals Book Review: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: An Encyclopedia

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Aimée DeChambeau
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Economics ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Economics ◽  
Welfare Economics ◽  
Natural Resource Economics ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
General Reference ◽  
Alphabetical Listing ◽  
Key Concepts

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics is a single volume, general reference encyclopedia that presents information on more than 140 topics relevant to understanding environmental and natural resource economics. Key concepts, historical events and movements, and biographies are included. Each entry is signed, provides see also references and brief lists of resources for further reading. The volume begins with an alphabetical listing of entries and a useful “Guide to Related Topics” that chunks related entries together under the categories of “General Topics,” “Environmental Economics,” “Resource Economics,” and “Applied Welfare Economics.”

Book Review: Progress in Natural Resource Economics

1987 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-288
Author(s):  
John McInerny
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Economics ◽  
Natural Resource Economics ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Oxford University Press

Progress in Natural Resource Economics. Edited by Anthony Scott. Oxford University Press, 1985. vii + 440 pages. £30.

scholarly journals Perceptions of youth about the integration of natural resource economics through environmental education in schools: a realist social perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-75
Author(s):  
Sikhulile Bonginkosi Msezane
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Economics ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Resource Economics ◽  
Natural Resource Economics ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Policy Statement ◽  
Solid Waste Disposal

The purpose of this paper is to delineate the perceptions of grade 12 students about the integration of environmental economics through environmental education into the South African Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS). Margaret Archer’s (1995) Realist social theory (RST): the morphogenetic approach provides the meta-theoretical framework that informs this study. RST deals with the concepts of structure, culture, agency, pre-existing structures, position-practice systems and mechanisms that have impact on the economic growth and welfare of the society. Data was collected through focus-group interviews with ten students who were purposefully selected from a classroom of 80 students. In addition, a qualitative research approach was used in this study to describe perception of youth about proper utilisation of scarce natural resources. The inductive analysis approach was used to interpret raw data sourced from the participants.The results of this paper revealed that even though youth have been taught principles of environmental education which consist of natural resource economics as a cross-curricular topic, some do not appreciate the importance of efficient use of natural resources in the reduction of poverty and welfare of future generation. Further, the youth believe that environmental issues such as land degradation, water and air pollution, and improper solid waste disposal can be alleviated through activities that can be done outside the classroom. However, some participants noted that the local government has to provide financial support for programmes that encourage natural resource sustainability in the schools.

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