The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 2
Published on 9. November 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-0-19-924070-8 (ISBN)
Description
Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day-to-day basis by the allocation and use of purely local resources. Yet 'official' development economics has concentrated on headline international issues and only recently begun to take account of the dependence of poor countries on their natural resources, the link between acute poverty and environmental degradation, and the problems associated with the management of local common property such as soil and soil cover, water, forests and their products, animals and fisheries.
In these two volumes, expert contributors provide a set of authoritative studies of emerging development issues, ranging from foundational matters to case studies. They address both analytic and empirical issues on the role of environmental resources in the development process, presenting explanations of existing situations and policies for the future. A wealth of interests and backgrounds is represented beyond the confines of environmental economics proper, and broader theoretical issues fundamental to our understanding of environmental policy are covered.
In order to make these materials suitable for teaching purposes, authors have been encouraged to survey their topics rather than present their most recent findings.
In these two volumes, expert contributors provide a set of authoritative studies of emerging development issues, ranging from foundational matters to case studies. They address both analytic and empirical issues on the role of environmental resources in the development process, presenting explanations of existing situations and policies for the future. A wealth of interests and backgrounds is represented beyond the confines of environmental economics proper, and broader theoretical issues fundamental to our understanding of environmental policy are covered.
In order to make these materials suitable for teaching purposes, authors have been encouraged to survey their topics rather than present their most recent findings.
Reviews / Votes
The collection represents an important contribution to environmental and ecological economics in the developing world... As a teaching guide to the economics of environment and development, these two volumes represent a valuable addition to the literature... * Tim Forsyth, Energy and Environmental Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous line figures
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
532 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-924070-8 (9780199240708)
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Partha Dasgupta | Karl-Goeran Maeler
The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 2
Book
03/1997
Clarendon Press
€97.80
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Persons
Partha Dasgupta is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and Chairman of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm
Karl-Goeran Maeler is Director of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm, and Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics
Karl-Goeran Maeler is Director of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm, and Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics
Editor
Frank Ramsey Professor of EconomicsFrank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge
Director, Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm, and Professor of EconomicsDirector, Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm, and Professor of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics
Content
1. The Resource-Basis of Production and Consumption: An Economic Analysis ; I RIGHTS AND THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK ; 2. On a Clear Day, You Can See the Coase Theorem ; 3. Common-Property Resource-Management in Traditional Societies ; II ACCOUNTING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION ; 4. A Water Perspective on Poulation, Environmnent, and Development ; 5. Environmental Statistics and the National Accounts ; 6. The Environment and Net National Product ; 7. Can Computable General-Equilibrium Models Shed Light on the Environmental Problems of Developing Countries? ; 8. Development Strategies and the Environment ; III DECISION UNDER UNCERTAINTY ; 9. Choice under Uncertainty: Problems Solved and Unsolved ; IV RECIPROCAL EXTERNALITIES: LOCAL AND GLOBAL ; 10. Endogenous Fertility and the Environment: A Parable of Firewood ; 11. Is Co-opertaion Habit-Forming? ; 12. Efficiency Issues and the Montreal Protocol on CFCs ; 13. CO2 and the Greenhouse Effect: A Game-Theoretic Exploration ; V UNIDIRECTIONAL EXTERNALITIES ; 14. Analysis and Management of Watersheds ; 15. The Management of Costal Wetlans: Economic Analysis of Combined Ecologic-Economic Systems ; 16. Urban Air Pollution in Developing Countries: Problems and Policies ; VI MACROECONOMIC POLICIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE-USE ; 17. Macroeconomic Policies and Deforestation ; 18. Microeconomic Responses to Macroeconomic Reforms: The Optimal Control of Soil Erosion ; VII VALUATION AND MANAGEMENT ; 19. Valuation of Tropical Forests ; 20. The Management of Drylands ; 21. Management of Wildlife and Habitat in Developing Countries ; 22. Public Policy toward Social Overhead Capital: The Capitalization Externality