Environmental Economics and Development (Environmental Analysis and Economic Policy Series)
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Book Description
This outstanding new collection surveys the relationship between the environment and development, and highlights some of the tensions that are implicit in the notion of sustainable development.
Environmental Economics and Development is organized into six sections: general aspects; resource utilization and management; valuation and accounting of environmental change; environmental policy instruments; adjustment, trade and the environment; and distributional issues. These areas include general features of environment-development interfaces, operational valuation and accounting methods and economic approaches to environmental policy instruments in developing countries and in the international context.
About the Author
J(Hans)B. Opschoor is Rector, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands and Professor of Environmental Economics, Free University, Amsterdam.
Kenneth Button is Professor of Public Policy, Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University.
Peter Nijkamp is Professor in Regional, Urban & Environmental Economics, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Environmental Economics and Development (Environmental Analysis and Economic Policy Series),J. B. Opschoor,Kenneth Button,Peter Nijkamp,Hans Opschoor,Edward Elgar Publishing,1858987407,Development - Economic Development,Economic Development,Economics - General,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Environmental Economics,Environmental policy,Natural Resources,Nature,Nature / Field Guide Books,Nature/Ecology,Sustainable development
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