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Economics is often defined as the science of allocating scarce resources, resources being a general term used to cover all inputs to production, not only land, minerals and fuels but also labour and capital and even foreign exchange. The principles are very general and in some ways the economics of natural resources is a not very special case.
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© 1979 Richard Lecomber
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Lecomber, R. (1979). Introduction. In: The Economics of Natural Resources. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86151-4_1
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