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.