Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability
New Policy Options
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 June 2006
- ISBN 9780199298006
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages504 pages
- Size 233x156x26 mm
- Weight 744 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Numerous tables and line drawings 0
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Short description:
This important collection of essays from the leading writers in the field, focuses on the importance of taking environmental issues into account in the process of development and poverty reduction. This book deepens our understanding of environmental sustainability in a context of economic growth, putting sustainable development firmly back on the agenda.
MoreLong description:
Economic growth as we know it today cannot persist indefinitely if it entails continuous degradation of natural resources and the environment. While in a few countries around the world it appears that environmental degradation has been the result of rapid economic growth, in the vast majority of the developing countries the environment has been equally spoiled despite slow or even negative economic growth.
This book provides new insights on the common roots of economic stagnation, poverty and environmental degradation which, unfortunately, generally reside in misguided government policies and priorities. By doing this, the volume seeks to provide a broader policy option framework than those found in conventional policy analyses, mainly dominated by the "Washington Consensus". It shows that a major omission of the conventional view is that governments tend to allocate government expenditures in a biased way favouring subsidies to the economic elites to the detriment of investments in public goods, including human capital, R&D, as well as the development of institutions (environmental and otherwise), which are vital for long run growth, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability.
`'This is an important collection of essays. They are of a consistently high standard and the authors in general are among the leading writers in this much neglected field.''
The late Professor David Pearce
Table of Contents:
Sustainable Development: Towards a Broader Policy Agenda
Natural Capital, Resource Dependency and Poverty in Developing Countries: The Problem of "Dualism within Dualism"
Measuring Development Prospects by 'Greening' the National Accounts
Impacts of Macroeconomic Policies on the Environment, Natural Resources and Welfare in Developing Countries
Political Economy and Natural Resource Use
Structural Adjustment and Sustainable Development
Trade and the Environment in Developing Economies
Environmental Policy Instruments and Instututions in Developing Countries
Energy, Equity and Economic Development
Water Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries: Insights, Evidences, and Case Studies
Water Quality Issues in Developing Countries
Urban Air Pollution, Health and Policy Instruments
The Economics of Terrestrial Biodiversity Conservation in Developing Nations
Conservation of Tropical Forests: Addressing Market Failure
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