Subject: Economics and Finance Book Title: Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability
Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability
New Policy Options
López, Ramón
(Editor), Professor of Economics at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland at College Park
Toman, Michael A.
(Editor), Adjunct Faculty Member, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University and Bren School of the Environment, University of California, Santa Barbara
Print publication date: 2006
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-929800-6
doi:10.1093/0199298009.001.0001
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Table of Contents
Overview. Sustainable Development: Towards a Broader Policy Agenda
1. Natural Capital, Resource Dependency, and Poverty in Developing Countries: The Problem of ‘Dualism within Dualism’
2. Measuring Development Prospects by ‘Greening’ the National Accounts
3. Impacts of Macroeconomic Policies on the Environment, Natural Resources, and Welfare in Developing Countries
4. Political Economy and Natural Resource Use
5. Structural Adjustment and Sustainable Development
6. Trade and the Environment in Developing Economies
7. Environmental Policy Instruments and Institutions in Developing Countries
8. Energy, Equity, and Economic Development
9. Water Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries: Insights, Evidences, and Case Studies
10. Water Quality Issues in Developing Countries
11. Urban Air Pollution, Health, and Policy Instruments
12. The Economics of Terrestrial Biodiversity Conservation in Developing Nations
13. Conservation of Tropical Forests: Addressing Market Failure
APPENDIX. THE ROLES OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES IN ECONOMIC GROWTH ANALYSIS: AN INTUITIVE INTRODUCTION