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Synopsis Environmental and ecological economics is a transdisciplinary branch of knowledge. It covers the study of the processes of simultaneity involved in the functioning of the economy and the environmental/ecological system, with a view to promoting human well-being sustainably. During the last three decades, numerous difficult environmental problems of humanity have been explored and analysed which have entarged the frontiers of environmental and ecological economics. Yet the vast mass of literature on the subject remains diffused in a variety of study materials not easily accessible to students. Besides covering the paradigmatic bases of environmental, ecological and natural resource economics, this book discusses the economic dimensions of and approaches to pollution, environmental and ecosystem management, biodiversity, global warming, energy and resource use, environmental evaluation and sustainable development. The book can serve teachers and students at graduate and post-graduate levels and also stimulate research in this vast and growing field.