Sustainable Resource Development in the 21st Century [electronic resource] : Essays in Memory of Peter Berck / edited by David Zilberman, Jeffrey M. Perloff, Cyndi Spindell Berck.

Introduction -- Part 1: Forestry -- Peter Berck’s Contributions to Forestry Economics -- Integrated Management of Bark Beetles: Economic Contributions of Peter Berck and Foundational Entomological Research -- A Green Revolution in the Woods: The Potential of Eucalyptus Plantations -- Hedging with a Housing Starts Futures Contract -- Part 2: Agriculture and Fisheries -- The Future of Agriculture -- How Is Farm Income Affected When Each Farm Has to Produce Its Own Animal Feed? -- Estimating Agricultural Acreage Responses to Input Prices: Groundwater in California -- Fisheries Management Implications of Intrinsic Under-identification of Growth Equation Parameters -- Efficiency Controls and the Captured Fisheries Regulator -- Part 3: Conservation and Development -- Peter Berck’s contribution to the Environment for Development Initiative -- Environmental Attitudes in Developing Countries -- Armed Conflict Increases Elephant Poaching -- Bioprospecting and Biodiversity Conservation: What Happens When Discoveries Are Made? -- Part 4: Public Economics -- A Public Economist at a Public University -- Peter Berck’s Impacts on Gender Equity in Environmental Economics -- Towards Understanding California's Recycling Opportunities -- So You Want to Be Relevant -- Challenging Conventional Wisdom in Defense and National Security -- The Red Queen.

Open Access

This is an open access book. This edited volume discusses topics in environmental economics with a focus on sustainability, conservation, and responsible resource management. Written in memory of Peter Berck, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, the chapters expand upon his insights about the connections between human activities and the natural world. The volume includes a selection of research on agriculture, energy, forestry, fisheries, land use, recycling, and conservation – all parts of the broad question of how natural resources can meet human needs while avoiding environmental degradation. Written from a 21st century perspective, with concerns about climate, renewable energy, biodiversity, and sustainable development, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students of agricultural and resource economics.