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Klappentext This book presents a set of authoritative studies of the role of environmental resources in the development process. Contributors address the problems connected with the management of local common resources and supply both explanations of existing situations and policies for the future. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Partha Dasgupta and Barry Nalebuff: The Resource-Basis of Production and Consumption 2: Barry Nalebuff: On a Clear Day, You Can See the Coase Theorem 3: Raymond Noronha: Common-Property Resource-Management in Traditional Societies 4: Malin Falkenmark: A Water Perspective on Population, Environment, and Development 5: Martin Weale: Environmental Statistics and the National Accounts 6: Partha Dasgupta, Bengt Kriström, and Karl-Göran Mäler: The Environment and Net National Product 7: Shanta Devarajan: Can Computable General-Equilibrium Models Shed Light on the Environmental Problems of Developing Countries? 8: Irma Adelman, Habib Fetini, and Elise Hardy Golan: Development Strategies and the Environment 9: Mark Machina: Choice under Uncertainty: Problems Solved and Unsolved ...
