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The Environment and Emerging Development Issues

Volume 2

Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day to day basis by the allocation and use of purely local resources. Yet `official' development economics has concentrated on headline international issues and only recently begun to take account of the dependence of poor countries on their natural resources, the link between acute poverty and environmental degradation, and the problems associated with the management of local common property such as soil and soil cover, water, forests and their products, animals and fisheries. In these volumes, which are part of the WIDER programme on the Economics of the Environment, expert contributors provide a set of authoritative studies of emerging development issues, ranging from foundational matters to case studies, original research (in areas where there has been a paucity of work) to survey papers. They address both analytic and empirical issues on the role of environmental resources in the development process, presenting explanations of existing situations and policies for the future. A wealth of interests and backgrounds is represented and reflected in the cross-fertilization between papers

Table of contents
  1. Part IV: Reciprocal Externalities : Local and Global
    Endogenous Fertility and the Environment: A Parable of Firewood
    Anke Meyer, Marc Nerlove
  2. Part IV: Reciprocal Externalities : Local and Global
    Is Co-operation Habit-Forming?
    Paul Seabright
  3. Part IV: Reciprocal Externalities : Local and Global
    Efficiency Issues and the Montreal Protocol on CFCs
    Peter Bohm
  4. Part IV: Reciprocal Externalities : Local and Global
    CO2 and the Greenhouse Effect: A Game-Theoretic Exploration
    Michael Hoel
  5. Part V: Unidirectional Externalities
    Analysis and Management of Watersheds
    John A. Dixon
  6. Part V: Unidirectional Externalities
    The Management of Coastal Wetlands: Economic Analysis of Combined Ecologic-Economic Systems
    John A. Dixon, Padma N. Lal
  7. Part V: Unidirectional Externalities
    Urban Air Pollution in Developing Countries: Problems and Policies
    Alan J. Krupnick
  8. Part VI: Macroeconomic Policies and Environmental Resource-Use
    Macroeconomic Policies and Deforestation
    Robert Repetto
  9. Part VI: Macroeconomic Policies and Environmental Resource-Use
    Microeconomic Responses to Macroeconomic Reforms: The Optimal Control of Soil Erosion
    Scott Barrett
  10. Part VII: Valuation and Management
    Valuation of Tropical Forests
    Anthony C. Fisher
  11. Part VII: Valuation and Management
    The Management of Drylands
    Ridley Nelson
  12. Part VII: Valuation and Management
    Management of Wildlife and Habitat in Developing Countries
    Gardner Brown
  13. Part VII: Valuation and Management
    Public Policy toward Social Overhead Capital: The Capitalization Externality
    David A. Starrett
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