Resource Economics is a text for students with a background in calculus, intermediate microeconomics, and a
familiarity with the spreadsheet software Excel. The book covers basic concepts, shows how to set up spreadsheets
to solve dynamic allocation problems, and presents economic models for fisheries, forestry, nonrenewable resources,
stock pollutants, option value, and sustainable development. Within the text, numerical examples are posed and
solved using Excel's Solver. Through these examples and additional exercises at the end of each chapter, students
can make dynamic models operational, develop their economic intuition, and learn how to set up spreadsheets for
the simulation of optimization of resource and environmental systems.