Environmental economics and development Catalogue en ligne

An international array of scholars reviews the relationship between the environment and development, focusing particularly on the conflicts that are inevitable with attempts at sustainable development. Organization is in six sections on general aspects; resource utilization and management; valuation and accounting of environmental change; environmental policy instruments; adjustment, trade, and the environment; and distribution issues.

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Pt. I. General Aspects.
1. Environment and the Developing Countries / David W. Pearce and R. Kerry Turner.
2. Environmental Issues and Economic Decisions in Developing Countries / Mohan Munasinghe.
3. Environment and Development: Theory and International Evidence / John M. Antle and Gregg Heidebrink.
4. Alternative Approaches to Economic-Environmental Interactions / Edward B. Barbier.
5. Developing Economies and the Steady State / Herman E. Daly.
6. Coevolutionary Development Potential / Richard B. Norgaard.
7. Linking Pollution and Macroeconomic Variables: An Indonesian Example / Iwan J. Azis --

pt. II. Resource Utilization and Management.
8. The Tragedy of the Commons: Twenty-Two Years Later / David Feeny, Fikret Berkes and Bonnie J. McCay / [and others].
9. Population Pressure and Land Degradation: The Case of Ethiopia / Sverre Grepperud.
10. Environmental Degradation and Population Movements: The Role of Property Rights / Kanchan Chopra and S.C. Gulati.
11. Sustainable Resource Use, Economic Development, and Public Regulation: The Multiproduct Gill Net Fishery of Peninsular Malaysia / Mohammad Ferdous Alam, Ishak Haji Omar and Dale Squires.
12. Incentives, Regulations, and Sustainable Land Use in Costa Rica / Ernst Lutz and Herman Daly.
13. Conservation of Biodiversity and Economic Development: The Concept of Transferable Development Rights / Theodore Panayotou --

pt. III. Valuation and Accounting of Environmental Change.
14. Evaluating Environmental Damage and Benefits / David W. Pearce and Jeremy J. Warford.
15. Wasting Assets: Natural Resources in the National Income Accounts / Robert Repetto, William Magrath and Michael Wells / [and others].
16. Environmental and Natural Resource Accounting / Salah El Serafy and Ernst Lutz.
17. Risk and Uncertainty in Dryland Development and Management / John A. Dixon, David E. James and Paul B. Sherman --

pt. IV. Environmental Policy Instruments.
18. Policy Instruments for Pollution Control in Developing Countries / Gunnar S. Eskeland and Emmanuel Jimenez.
19. Carbon Abatement Costs: An Integrated Approach for India / Sujata Gupta and Stephen G. Hall.
20. Using Tradeable Permits to Achieve Sustainability in the World's Large Cities: Policy Design Issues and Efficiency Conditions for Controlling Vehicle Emissions, Congestion and Urban Decentralization with an Application to Mexico City / Haynes C. Goddard --

pt. V. Adjustment, Trade and the Environment.
21. The Environment as a Factor of Production: The Economic Growth and Trade Policy Linkages / Ramon Lopez.
22. Macroeconomic Policies, Second-Best Theory and the Environment / Karl-Goran Maler and Mohan Munasinghe.
23. Bretton Woods Intervention Programmes and Sustainable Development / J.B. Opschoor and S.M. Jongma --

pt. VI. Distributional Issues.
24. Population, Resources, and Poverty / Partha Dasgupta.
25. Sustainable Development and International Distribution: Theory and Application to Rainforests / Ernst Mohr.
26. An Open Economy Model of the Effects of Unilateral Environmental Policy by a Large Developing Country / Amitrajeet A. Batabyal.
27. Marginal Urban Environments as Havens for Low-Income Housing: Third World Regional Comparisons / Hamish Main and Stephen Wyn Williams.
28. Urban Environmental Sustainability: Critical Issues and Policy Measures in a Third-World Context / Peter Nijkamp and Hans Opschoor.

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