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The Environment and Emerging Development Issues

Volume 1

Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day to day basis by the allocation and use of primary 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 volumes, which are part of the WIDER programme on the Economics for the Environment, expert contributors provide a set of authoritative studies of emerging development issues, ranging from foundational matters to case studies, original research (in areas where there has been a paucity of work) to survey papers. 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, and reflected in the cross-fertilization between papers.

Table of contents
  1. 1. The Resource-Basis of Production and Consumption
    Partha Dasgupta, Barry Nalebuff
  2. Part I: Property Rights and the Legal Framework
    2. On a Clear Day, You Can See the Coase Theorem
    Barry Nalebuff
  3. Part I: Property Rights and the Legal Framework
    3. Common-Property Resource-Management in Traditional Societies
    Raymond Noronha
  4. Part II: Accounting for Environmental Degradation
    4. A Water Perspective on Population, Environment, and Development
    Malin Falkenmark
  5. Part II: Accounting for Environmental Degradation
    5. Environmental Statistics and the National Accounts
    Martin Weale
  6. Part II: Accounting for Environmental Degradation
    6. The Environment and Net National Product
    Partha Dasgupta, Bengt Kriström, Karl-Göran Mäler
  7. Part II: Accounting for Environmental Degradation
    7. Can Computable General-Equilibrium Models Shed Light on the Environmental Problems of Developing Countries?
    Shanta Devarajan
  8. Part II: Accounting for Environmental Degradation
    8. Development Strategies and the Environment
    Irma Adelman, Habib Fetini, Elise Hardy Golan
  9. Part III: Decision under Uncertainty
    9. Choice under Uncertainty: Problems Solved and Unsolved
    Mark Machina
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