Environment and development economics : essays in honor of Sir Partha Dasgupta / edited by Scott Barrett, Karl-Goran Maler, and Eric S. Maskin.

Contributor(s): Dasgupta, Partha | Barrett, Scott | Mäler, Karl-Göran | Maskin, Eric Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. Description: xvi, 411 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9780199677856Subject(s): Environmental economics | Economic development -- Environmental aspects | Environmental policy -- Economic aspects | Economics -- Sociological aspectsDDC classification: 333.7 Online resources: WorldCat details

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Table of contents Partha Dasgupta's contributions to environment and development economics / Scott Barrett, Karl-Göran Mäler, and Eric Maskin Learning, growth, and development : a lecture in honor of Sir Partha Dasgupta / Joseph E. Stiglitz Some perspectives on linked ecosystems and socioeconomic systems / Kenneth J. Arrow, Paul R. Ehrlich, and Simon A. Levin An institutional analysis of development cooperation / Elinor Ostrom, Clark Gibson, Sujai Shivakumar, and Krister Andersson Climate change, cookstoves, and coughs and colds : thinking global and acting locally in rural Nepal / Krishna P. Pant, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, and Min B. Malla Thakuri ; comments by Joseph E. Stiglitz Red wells or green wells and does it matter? : examining household use of arsenic-contaminated water in Bangladesh / A.K. Enamul Haque, Zakir H. Khan, Mani Nepal, and Priya Shyamsundar ; comments by David Starrett Forest degradation in the Himalayas : determinants and policy options / Jean-Marie Baland, Sanghamitra Das, and Dilip Mookherjee ; comments by Geoffrey Heal An optimal contract for monitoring illegal exploitation of co-managed forests in Benin / Albert N. Honlonkou and Rashid Hassan ; comments by Eric Maskin Why cooperation is better : the gains to cooperative management of the Argentine shortfin squid fishery in South America / Sebastián Villasante, U. Rashid Sumaila, and Manel Antelo ; comments by Peter Hammond Occupational and environmental health impacts from mining in Orissa, India / Karnjana Sanglimsuwan, Erin O. Sills, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, Shubhayu Saha, Ashok Singha, and Barendra Sahoo ; comments by Robert Solow Estimating the value of statistical life for children in Metro Manila / Rosalina Palanca-Tan ; comments by Shanta Devarajan Natural resources and chronic poverty in India : interface and policy imperatives / Amita Shah ; comments by Kanchan Chopra

Summary: This book honours Partha Dasgupta, and the field he helped establish; environment and development economics. It concerns the relationship between social systems and natural systems. Above all, it concerns the poverty-environment nexus: the complex pathways by which people become or remain poor, and resources become or remain overexploited

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Non-fiction	333.7 ENV 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		30879
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Circulation Section	Non-fiction	333.7 ENV 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-2	Available		31013
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Circulation Section	Non-fiction	333.7 ENV 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-3	Checked out	11/06/2024	31014

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Table of contents Partha Dasgupta's contributions to environment and development economics / Scott Barrett, Karl-Göran Mäler, and Eric Maskin
Learning, growth, and development : a lecture in honor of Sir Partha Dasgupta / Joseph E. Stiglitz
Some perspectives on linked ecosystems and socioeconomic systems / Kenneth J. Arrow, Paul R. Ehrlich, and Simon A. Levin
An institutional analysis of development cooperation / Elinor Ostrom, Clark Gibson, Sujai Shivakumar, and Krister Andersson
Climate change, cookstoves, and coughs and colds : thinking global and acting locally in rural Nepal / Krishna P. Pant, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, and Min B. Malla Thakuri ; comments by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Red wells or green wells and does it matter? : examining household use of arsenic-contaminated water in Bangladesh / A.K. Enamul Haque, Zakir H. Khan, Mani Nepal, and Priya Shyamsundar ; comments by David Starrett
Forest degradation in the Himalayas : determinants and policy options / Jean-Marie Baland, Sanghamitra Das, and Dilip Mookherjee ; comments by Geoffrey Heal
An optimal contract for monitoring illegal exploitation of co-managed forests in Benin / Albert N. Honlonkou and Rashid Hassan ; comments by Eric Maskin
Why cooperation is better : the gains to cooperative management of the Argentine shortfin squid fishery in South America / Sebastián Villasante, U. Rashid Sumaila, and Manel Antelo ; comments by Peter Hammond
Occupational and environmental health impacts from mining in Orissa, India / Karnjana Sanglimsuwan, Erin O. Sills, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, Shubhayu Saha, Ashok Singha, and Barendra Sahoo ; comments by Robert Solow
Estimating the value of statistical life for children in Metro Manila / Rosalina Palanca-Tan ; comments by Shanta Devarajan
Natural resources and chronic poverty in India : interface and policy imperatives / Amita Shah ; comments by Kanchan Chopra

This book honours Partha Dasgupta, and the field he helped establish; environment and development economics. It concerns the relationship between social systems and natural systems. Above all, it concerns the poverty-environment nexus: the complex pathways by which people become or remain poor, and resources become or remain overexploited

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