Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-495) and index.

A preview -- Resource allocation in a timeless world -- Externalities -- Intertemporal equilibrium -- Renewable resources : some ecological and environmental models -- Exhaustible resources : an introduction -- Production with exhaustible resources -- Resource depletion and capital accumulation in a competitive economy -- Measurability, comparability and the aggregation of intergenerational welfares -- The optimal depletion of exhaustible resources -- Imperfect competition and exhaustible resources -- Taxation of exhaustible resources -- Uncertainty, information and the allocation of risk -- Uncertainty and the allocation of resources -- Price movements in resource markets -- Conclusions.

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