Providing an introduction to the overlapping generations approach,Intertemporal Resource Economics examines the economics of renewable natural resources. Readers will find explicit solutions for intertemporal general equilibrium with renewable resources.

Professor Dr. Karl Farmer, Department Chair Karl-Franzens-University, Graz, AustriaDr. Birgit Bednar-Friedl, Researcher, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, Karl-Franzens-University, Graz, Austria

Basics.- Economic Growth and Natural Resources.- Efficiency and Market Equilibrium under Resource Abundance.- Intergenerational Efficiency in Log-linear Cobb-Douglas OLG Models.- Intertemporal Market Equilibrium and Short-Run Intergenerational Efficiency.- Steady-State Market Equilibrium, Long-Run Intergenerational Efficiency, and Optimality.- Efficiency and Market Equilibrium with Scarce Renewable Resources.- Renewable Resources and Intergenerational Efficiency.- Intertemporal Market Equilibrium and Intergenerational Efficiency with Renewable Resources.- Intergenerational Equity and Market Equilibrium with Scarce Renewable Resources.- Sustainable Economic Growth with Linear Resource Regeneration.- Steady-State Sustainability under Logistically Regenerating Resources.- Shocks to Harvest Technology and Natural Regeneration.- Resource Use with Physical Harvest Costs.- Effects of Harvest Cost and Biological Shocks.