| Description |
xxviii, 540 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: List of figures vii -- List of tables ix -- Acknowledgements xiii -- Preface xv -- Part One. Sustainable Development -- I The concept of sustainable economic development 1 -- 2 Alternative approaches to economic environmental interactions 22 -- 3 The conditions for achieving environmentally sustainable -- development 43 -- with A. Markandya -- 4 Environmental sustainability and cost-benefit analysis 54 -- with A. Markandva and D. W. Pearce -- 5 Natural capital and the economics of environment and development 65 -- Part Two. Agriculture and Forests -- 6 Cash crops, food crops. and sustainability: the case of Indonesia 96 -- 7 The farm-level economics of soil conservation: the uplands of Java 120 -- 8 Rehabilitating gum arabic systems in Sudan: economic and -- environmental implications 138 -- 9 Economic aspects of tropical deforestation in Southeast Asia 155 -- 10 Economic analysis of deforestation in Mexico 183 -- with J. C. Burgess -- 11 The economics of tropical forest land use options 223 -- with J. C Burgess -- 12 The role of smallholder producer prices in land degradation: -- the case of Malawi 254 -- 13 The economics of soil erosion: theory, methodology and examples 281 -- Part Three. Wetlands, Wildlands and Biodervisty -- 14 Economics for the wilds 308 -- 15 An economic valuation of wetland benefits 322 -- with WM. Adams and K. Kimmage -- vi The economics of environment and development -- 16 Valuing environmental functions: tropical wetlands 344 -- 17 Capturing the pharmaceutical value of biodiversity in a -- developing country 370 -- with B.A. Aylward -- Part Four. Trade and Environment -- 18 Elephant ivory and tropical timber: the role of trade interventions -- in sustainable management 397 -- 19 Trade, tropical deforestation and policy interventions 427 -- with M. Rauscher -- 20 The linkages between the timber trade and tropical deforestation - -- Indonesia 444 -- with N. Bockstael, J. C Burgess and L Strand -- 21 Trade in timber-based forest products and the implications of the -- Uruguay Round 476 -- 22 Wildlife, biodiversity and trade 491 -- with C.-E. Schulz -- Index 525 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
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Sustainable development -- Developing countries.
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| LC no. |
97033566 |
| ISBN |
1858986850 |
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