Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability: New Policy Options

✍ Scribed by United Nations

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 505
• Series: Initiative for Policy Dialogue
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
List of figures......Page 10
List of tables......Page 12
List of boxes......Page 14
Foreword......Page 16
Overview: Sustainable Development: Towards a Broader Policy Agenda......Page 20
1. Natural Capital, Resource Dependency, and Poverty in Developing Countries: The Problem of ‘Dualism within Dualism’......Page 42
2. Measuring Development Prospects by ‘Greening’ the National Accounts......Page 79
3. Impacts of Macroeconomic Policies on the Environment, Natural Resources, and Welfare in Developing Countries......Page 109
4. Political Economy and Natural Resource Use......Page 141
5. Structural Adjustment and Sustainable Development......Page 173
6. Trade and the Environment in Developing Economies......Page 197
7. Environmental Policy Instruments and Institutions in Developing Countries......Page 236
8. Energy, Equity, and Economic Development......Page 264
9. Water Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries: Insights, Evidences, and Case Studies......Page 292
10. Water Quality Issues in Developing Countries......Page 326
11. Urban Air Pollution, Health, and Policy Instruments......Page 364
12. The Economics of Terrestrial Biodiversity Conservation in Developing Nations......Page 401
13. Conservation of Tropical Forests: Addressing Market Failure......Page 431
14. Appendix......Page 472
A......Page 482
B......Page 483
C......Page 484
E......Page 486
F......Page 488
G......Page 489
H......Page 490
I......Page 491
J......Page 492
L......Page 493
M......Page 494
N......Page 495
P......Page 496
R......Page 498
S......Page 500
T......Page 502
V......Page 503
W......Page 504
Z......Page 505