Q - Agricultural, Natural Resource, Environmental, and Ecological Economics

JEL top-level code Q: the economics of agriculture, natural resources, the environment and shared or open-access resources, including the incentive problems that arise when a resource cannot be easily owned or excluded from. Belongs here: concepts about resources that are agricultural, environmental, or held or used in common rather than through ordinary private ownership. Does not belong here: an ordinary private-market externality with no natural-resource or environmental character, grouped under Microeconomics.