
The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 1
Volume 1
Karl-Goeran Maeler(Author)
Partha Dasgupta(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 9. November 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-19-924069-2 (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 this is reflected in the cross-fertilization between papers. 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 this is reflected in the cross-fertilization between papers. 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line figures, tables
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
442 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-924069-2 (9780199240692)
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Partha Dasgupta | Karl-Goeran Maeler
The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 1
Book
03/1997
Clarendon Press
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Persons
Author
Director, Beijer Institute of Ecological EconomicsDirector, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Editor
Frank Ramsey Professor of EconomicsFrank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge
Content
1. The Resource-Basis of Production and Consumption ; 2. On a Clear Day, You Can See the Coase Theorem ; 3. Common-Property Resource-Management in Traditional Societies ; 4. A Water Perspective on Population, Environment, 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 ; 9. Choice under Uncertainty: Problems Solved and Unsolved