Environment and Emerging Development Issues

Name: Environment and Emerging Development Issues
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ISBN: 9780198287674

ISBN-10: 0198287674

ISBN-13: 9780198287674

Edition: 1997

Authors: Partha Dasgupta, Karl-Gï¿½ran Mï¿½ler, Karl-Gï¿½ran Mï¿½ler

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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 degredation, 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 volumes, which are part of the WIDER programme on the Economics of the Environment, expert contributors provide a set of authoritative studies of…

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List price: $175.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/8/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Unu World Institute for Development Economics Research (unu/Wider)



Reciprocal Externalities: Local and Global



Endogenous Fertility and the Environment: a Parable of Firewood



Is Co-Operation Habit-Forming?



the Identical-Country Model



Efficiency Issues and the Montreal Protocol on Cfcs



Constant Marginal Abatement Benefits



an Equilibrium Number of Signatories Below Full Co-Operation


References



Co2 and the Greenhouse Effect: A Game-Theoretic Exploration



Unidirectional Externalities



Analysis and Management of Watersheds



the Management of Coastal Wetlands: Economic Analysis of Combined Ecologic-Economic Systems


References



Urban Air Pollution in Developing Countries: Problems and Policies


References



Macroeconomic Policies and Environmental Resource-Use



Macroeconomic Policies and Deforestation



Microeconomic Responses to Macroeconomic Reforms: the Optimal Control of Soil Erosion


References



Valuation and Management



Valuation of Tropical Forests



The Management of Drylands



Management of Wildlife and Habitat in Developing Countries



Public Policy Toward Social Overhead Capital: the Capitalization Externality


Index