The environment and emerging development issues

These two volumes present a set of authoritative studies of the role of environmental resources in the development process. Contributors address the problems connected with the management of local common resources and supply both explanations of existing situations and policies for the future.

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 two volumes, expert contributors provide a set of authoritative studies of emerging development issues, ranging from foundational matters to case studies. 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, beyond the confines of environmental economics proper; and this is reflected in the cross-fertilization between papers. In order to make these materials suitable for teaching purposes, authors have been encouraged to survey their topics rather than present their most recent findings.

Contents - Volume 1
1. The Resource-Basis of Production and Consumption - Partha Dasgupta and Barry Nalebuff
2. On a Clear Day, You Can See the Coase Theorem - Barry Nalebuff
3. Common-Property Resource-Management in Traditional Societies - Raymond Noronha
4. A Water Perspective on Population, Environment, and Development - Malin Falkenmark
5. Environmental Statistics and the National Accounts - Martin Weale
6. The Environment and Net National Product - Partha Dasgupta, Bengt Kriström and Karl-Göran Mäler
7. Can Computable General-Equilibrium Models Shed Light on the Environmental Problems of Developing Countries? - Shanta Devarajan
8. Development Strategies and the Environment - Irma Adelman, Habib Fetini and Elise Hardy Golan
9. Choice under Uncertainty: Problems Solved and Unsolved - Mark Machina

Volume 2 
10 Endogenous Fertility and the Environment: a Parable of Firewood
11: Is Co-Operation Habit-Forming?
12 Efficiency Issues and the Montreal Protocol on Cfcs
13: Co2 and the Greenhouse Effect: A Game-Theoretic Exploration
14: Analysis and Management of Watersheds
15 the Management of Coastal Wetlands: Economic Analysis of Combined Ecologic-Economic Systems
16 Urban Air Pollution in Developing Countries: Problems and Policies
17: Macroeconomic Policies and Deforestation
18 Microeconomic Responses to Macroeconomic Reforms: the Optimal Control of Soil Erosion
19 Valuation of Tropical Forests
20: The Management of Drylands
21: Management of Wildlife and Habitat in Developing Countries
22 Public Policy Toward Social Overhead Capital: the Capitalization Externality