Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 March 2004
- ISBN 9780199267194
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 234x156x20 mm
- Weight 560 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous figures and tables 0
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Short description:
In Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment, Partha Dasgupta explores ways to measure the quality of life. In developing quality-of-life indices, he pays particular attention to the natural environment, illustrating how it can be incorporated, more generally, into economic reasoning in a seamless manner. Professor Dasgupta puts the theory that he develops to use in extended commentaries on the economics of population, poverty traps, global warming, structural adjustment programmes, and free trade, particularly in relation to poor countries. The result is a treatise that goes beyond quality-of-life measures and offers a comprehensive account of the newly emergent subject of ecological economics.
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In Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment, Partha Dasgupta explores ways to measure the quality of life. In developing quality-of-life indices, he pays particular attention to the natural environment, illustrating how it can be incorporated, more generally, into economic reasoning in a seamless manner. Professor Dasgupta puts the theory that he develops to use in extended commentaries on the economics of population, poverty traps, global warming, structural adjustment programmes, and free trade, particularly in relation to poor countries. The result is a treatise that goes beyond quality-of-life measures and offers a comprehensive account of the newly emergent subject of ecological economics.
With the publication of this new paperback edition, Professor Dasgupta has taken the opportunity to update and revise his text in a number of ways, including developments to facilitate its current use on a number of gradate courses in environmental and resource economics. The treatment of the welfare economics of imperfect economies has been developed using new findings, and the Appendix has been expanded to include applications of the theory to a number of institutions, and to develop approximate formulae for estimating the value of environmental natural resources.
highly recommended for policy makers and students of environment and development notably those with an interest in collective action. International donors and multilateral banks with a large portfolio of projects in the water and forestry sectors could also benefit immensely from some of the insights this book provides
Table of Contents:
Summary and Guide
Introduction: Means and Ends
I Valuing and Evaluating
Prologue
The Notion of Well-Being
Ordering Social States
Why Measure Well-Being?
Constituents and Determinants of Well-Being
II Measuring Current Well-Being
Prologue
Theory
Current Quality of Life in Poor Countries
III Measuring Well-Being over Time
Prologue
Intergenerational Well-Being
Intergenerational Conflicts
Economic Institutions and the Natural Environment
Valuing Goods
Wealth and Well-Being
IV Evaluating Policies in Imperfect Economies
Prologue
Policy Reforms
Discounting Future Consumption: How and Why
Institutional Responses to Policy Change
V Valuing Potential Lives
Prologue
Some Views
Classical Utilitarianism and the Genesis Problem
Numbers and Well-Being under Classical Utilitarianism
Actual versus Potential Lives
Generation-Relative Utilitarianism
Appendix
Handbuch des Ausstattungsrechts: Der Schutz der nichteingetragenen Marke und der Ausstattung im In- und Ausland
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