Download or read book Essays on Natural Resource Development International Trade and the Environment written by Jinhua Zhao and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Role of Natural Resources in International Trade and Development written by Susana Ferreira and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Natural Resources and Economic Development written by Edward Barbier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive analysis of natural resource use and economic development in poor countries, first published in 2005.

Download or read book The Economics of Environment and Development written by Edward Barbier and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents Barbier's (U. of York, UK) most influential papers on the role of environmental economics in economic development. Following an introduction, the first section deals with the concept of sustainable development, its practical implications for economic policy in developing countries, and the long run conditions under which an economy might trade off the environment and growth to achieve its development aims. The next three sections discuss land degradation and tropical deforestation; the economics of wetlands, wildlands, and biodiversity conservation; and trade and the environment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Essays on Natural Resource Environment and Development Economics written by Shaikh Muhammed Shahid Uddin Eskander and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Households from the rural areas of developing countries often lack many markets of interest, leading them often to tradeoff their long-run wellbeing for short-run survival priorities. Such situations create pressures on the limited volumes of natural resources available to them, on which they thrive for their income and livelihood. Moreover, frequent occurrences of extreme events, such as natural and political disasters, add to their overwhelming woes. Papers 1, 2 and 3 of this research broadly address land, disasters and fishery related issues, respectively. First paper identifies how tenure security and subsistence needs influence the tradeoff between unexploited topsoil and unspent money (i.e., savings) as the mode of intergenerational transfer. In an overlapping generation framework, I find that the current generation substitutes agricultural labor for topsoil conservation efforts under greater tenure security; and, consequently, switches from unspent money to topsoil as its mode of transfer. However, subsistence needs have opposite and offsetting impacts. Thus, simultaneous changes in tenure security and subsistence needs offset the impacts of each other on the allocation of labor, and the mode of transfer. Second paper uses childhood exposure to the series of 1970-1974 disasters in Bangladesh as a natural experiment inducing variations in the adulthood health, schooling and consumption outcomes. I find mixed evidence of such adulthood adversities by regions and cohorts. However, adversities are accentuated among the females, poor, and individuals with uneducated parents. I infer that instead of the childhood exposure to a disaster, differences in gender, poverty and parental schooling statuses are responsible for most of the variations in health, schooling and consumption outcomes. Finally, third paper uses a unique survey dataset from Malaysia to identify the effects of schooling and family size on the choice between wage employment and endogenously determined remittances as the source to supplement fishing income. I find that secondary schooling lowers remittances and increases outside income; whereas, family size increases remittances and reduces outside income. From a policy perspective, I infer that any policy intervention targeting the development of non-fishing employment sectors must focus on the development of education and family characteristics in the targeted community.

Download or read book Emerging Issues in Sustainable Development written by Mitsuo Matsushita and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to answer the questions: how do the rules of international treaties on trade and investment apply to the new laws and policies relating to energy-related trade, and do the rules of the multilateral system contribute to or detract from sustainable development? An emerging set of new problems in the law of international trade is how to reconcile the rules of the multilateral trading system with shortages of certain natural resources and the necessity to develop renewable energy resources. The chapters in this book provide a comprehensive analysis of the international trade issues presented by national trade laws and policies with regard to natural resources and energy. This book is about the extent to which we are interpreting existing rules to cover emerging problems and how the rules of the multilateral trading system can be adapted to achieve sustainable development in natural resources and energy. The book begins with a survey of selected national laws relating to recent restrictions on the export of natural resources, both resources used to produce energy as well as natural resources essential for industrial production. After examining the range of such laws in selected important countries, we turn to the application of the rules of the multilateral trading system to such export restrictions. We discuss the major rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as well as the natural resources rules in selected regional preferential free trade agreements. While there is not a comprehensive global legal regime on competition law, we believe it is also important to examine how selected national competition laws impact export restrictions on natural resources. This book will be a major contribution to the international dialogue on international economic law issues with respect to trade in natural resources and energy.

Download or read book Essays on Economics of Natural Resource Management and Experiments written by Wisdom Akpalu and published by Goteborg University. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Natural Resources Development and Trade written by Chiara Ravetti and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trade and Environment written by Adil Najam and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development written by Herman E. Daly and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clear-thinking collection brings together 25 of Daly s essays, speeches, reviews and testimonials from the past decade. . . as a whole they provide a useful masterclass on the principles of ecological economics. Daly s vision, as well as his frustration with mainstream economists refusal to engage with his arguments, comes through loud and clear. New Scientist It s hard to imagine ecological economics without the numerous and profound contributions of Herman Daly. These papers reveal the consistency of his analysis and clarity of exposition that have made him one of the most influential economists of his generation. Because of Herman Daly we have a much better understanding of how economies relate to the environment, why so much is wrong with this relationship and what must be done to fix it. Peter Victor, York University, Canada This thrilling compilation outlines the origins of the young discipline of ecological economics by the intellectual leader of the movement, Herman Daly. He recounts how, as a member of the recently demoted environment department at the World Bank, he integrated ecology with economics during his six years in the bowels of the beast. Herman lucidly and compellingly combines common sense with profound understanding of both economics and ecology to arrive at sustainable solutions to the global problematique. Herman s rigorous yet compassionate solutions to climate change, peak oil, globalization vs. internationalization, poverty reduction, and the unsung concept of scale leading to uneconomic growth, are precisely what we need to prevent the current liquidation of our beautiful world. This book will galvanize you into the action we need so much. Robert Goodland, Environmental adviser, World Bank Group, 1978 2001 In this book, written in crystal clear style, Herman Daly reiterates the main points of his analysis and vision, he praises some teachers (John Ruskin, Frederick Soddy, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Kenneth Boulding), he fearlessly attacks some adversaries in the World Bank and MIT, and he offers some advice to the government of his own country, to the Russian Duma, and especially to OPEC that, if followed, would change the world very much for the better. Finally, on a different line of thought, he interrogates conservation biologists on their reasons for wanting to keep biodiversity since, as biologists, they claim that evolution has no particular purpose. Why not let the Sixth Great Extinction run its course? In other words, science cannot provide an ethics of conservation, which Herman Daly finds in religion more than in democratization deliberations. Joan Martinez-Alier, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, Spain Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development comprises a carefully chosen selection of some 25 articles, speeches, congressional testimonies, reviews, and critiques from the last ten years of Herman Daly s ever-illuminating work. This book seeks to identify the blind spots and errors in standard growth economics, alongside the corrections that ecological economics offers to better guide us toward a sustainable economy one with deeper biophysical and ethical roots. Under the general heading of sustainability and ecological economics, many specific topics are here brought into relation with each other. These include: limits to growth; full-world versus empty-world economics; uneconomic growth; definitions of sustainability; peak oil; steady-state economics; allocation versus distribution versus scale issues; non-enclosure of rival goods and enclosure of non-rival goods; production functions and the laws of thermodynamics; OPEC and Kyoto; involuntary resettlement and development; resource versus value-added taxation; globalization versus internationalization; immigration; climate change; and the philosophical presuppositions of policy, including the policies suggested in connection with the topics above. This fascinating work will appeal to scholars and academics of ecol

Download or read book Sustainable Development Insights from India written by Purnamita Dasgupta and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of essays that provide a comprehensive coverage of multiple aspects of the discourse on environment, development and sustainability. It is designed to bring in a host of perspectives highlighting the synergies and the trade-offs in this debate, showcasing research along with policy implications of putting research into use. The global discussion on sustainability paints the broad canvas for this book. This volume aims to probe some contemporary issues that will help in understanding the sustainability narrative in India. The topics span over a host of questions on energy, environment, natural resources and related constituents of development. The discourse further extends to the role of economic modelling, public policy debates, political intervention, stakeholders’ response, community participation and so on. The discussions are often based on empirical support, review of existing literature as well as policy analysis. With an ultimate aim to understand the overall development narrative of the people of India, the discourse takes in its ambit the nuances of resource utilisation, economic growth, COVID-19 impacts, competitiveness and market structures, urbanization, sectoral reforms, environmental hazards, climate change, pollution, natural resource accounting and management to name a few. The book is divided into four sections, namely, The Big Picture: Evolving Perspectives; The Energy Scenario: Dilemmas and Opportunities; Sustainability Cross-Cuts: Developmental Aspects and Externality Empirics: Knowledge and Practice. The first section contains commentaries on the overarching themes of economic growth, development and sustainability. It presents some emerging perspectives on the developmental crisis that has emerged through the environmental lens with additional focus on the need for inclusion of creativity, knowhow, technology and financial resources to achieve the ambitious SDG targets. The second section brings out the dilemmas and opportunities in the energy sector, that has been a key player in discussions of sustainability, especially for India where significant technological advances in conventional forms of energy supply coexists with fairly low levels of per capita energy consumption and energy security is a key challenge. The section on sustainability crosscuts attempts to highlight the problems and processes of mainstreaming the sustainability question into conventional thinking through the concepts of a circular economy, green accounting techniques, institutional and governance structures, public policy and inclusive growth, amongst others. The last section presents some empirical studies on environmental externalities, the unaccounted environmental effects of economic production and consumption and finally the behavioural aspects of the stakeholders that are crucial in the larger narrative of sustainable development. This edited volume contains contributions of reputed scholars from various Indian universities, research institutions and professionals from outside academia, who are proven experts in their fields. The link between policy, practice, and well-being of the large vulnerable population of India is the major focus of enquiry that will help researchers, practitioners and policy planners in conducting further research in energy, environment, resource and linked areas of development economics. General readers with an active interest in energy, environment, and economic development are also likely to find this book an interesting read, especially in the times of several environmental challenges facing humankind.

Download or read book Essays in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics as a Contribution to Sustainable Development written by Karen Dury and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth written by United Nations Environment Programme. International Resource Panel and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2011 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 2050, humanity could devour an estimated 140 billion tons of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass per year three times its current appetite unless the economic growth rate is decoupled from the rate of natural resource consumption. Developed countries citizens consume an average of 16 tons of those four key resources per capita (ranging up to 40 or more tons per person in some developed countries). By comparison, the average person in India today consumes four tons per year. With the growth of both population and prosperity, especially in developing countries, the prospect of much higher resource consumption levels is far beyond what is likely sustainable if realised at all given finite world resources, warns this report by UNEP's International Resource Panel. Already the world is running out of cheap and high quality sources of some essential materials such as oil, copper and gold, the supplies of which, in turn, require ever-rising volumes of fossil fuels and freshwater to produce. Improving the rate of resource productivity (doing more with less) faster than the economic growth rate is the notion behind decoupling, the panel says. That goal, however, demands an urgent rethink of the links between resource use and economic prosperity, buttressed by a massive investment in technological, financial and social innovation, to at least freeze per capita consumption in wealthy countries and help developing nations follow a more sustainable path.

Download or read book Natural Resources and the Green Economy written by and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering that natural resources or green capital are the drivers of globalisation, this book focuses on the link between investment, trade and natural resource management in the context of the growing economic inequalities between states.

Download or read book Natural Resource Management Economic Political and Social Forces Influence on Environmental Policies written by Amy Bradley Mnr and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural Resource Management: Economic, Political, and Social Forces Influence on Environmental Policies is a collection of academic essays that delve into the reasoning behind the decision making that goes into creating environmental policies. The essays in this collection examines the stakeholders involved in the development of environmental policies, their motives behind their decisions and the consequences of the policies.Included in this collection are the following essays: "Social Response to Environmental Issues" discusses the different techniques used by social scientist to measure a citizen's orientation toward the environment as well as the rise of the modern environmental movement, the difference in rural and urban communities' views on natural resources, and the idea of an environmental hypocrite."Social and Cultural Influences on Environmental Policy" explores the environmental policies and problems of Nepal, Korea, the United States, and Australia and how different cultural and religious traditions effect environmental policy."Forces that Drive Environmental Policies" examines how environmental policy differs between post-industrial countries, post-communist countries, and developing countries. In particular, how the economic and governmental structures influence environmental policy. "Driving Forces of Environmental Politics and Policy" focuses on the effects population growth, economic development, technological change, globalization, and changing values have on the environmental policy process."Environmental Policy Process Participants" explains the roles of each participant in the process of creating environmental policy. Participants includes non-governmental interest groups, industrial groups, interest groups, and governmental offices, such as President and Congress."Markets, Science, Conflict, and Sustainability's Effect on Environmental Policy" describes the role of each in the process of creating environmental policy."The American Wilderness" and "Wilderness: the Effects of Human Expansion" attempt to explain the term wilderness and how it is improperly applied to the undeveloped areas in the United States called wilderness areas. This essay reals how the American landscape has been transformed over time and what we have today is far from pristine."Position Statement: Carbon Emissions" discusses placing limits on carbon emissions, specifically by using the cap and trade system and the opinions of both proponents and opponents."Environmental Social Justice: a Case Study of Northeast Portland, Oregon" examines the risks associated with environmental social justice in Portland, their uneven distribution, sources of the dissimilarities, reasons discrimination proof is difficult, and current actions attempting to fix the imbalance in environmental equality

Download or read book Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management in Developing Countries written by Mohan Munasinghe and published by Washington, D.C. : World Bank. This book was released on 1993 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trade Sustainable Development and the Environment written by Maria Isolda P. Guevara and published by Centre for Trade Policy and Law = Centre de droit et de politique commerciale. This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To facilitate reference, entries in this bibliography are classified under the following major topics: issues and perspectives related to trade, sustainable development, and the environment; trade, environment, and international organisations such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, United Nations, and multinational corporations; environmental agreements, laws, policies, regulations, and instruments; the environment and trading arrangements such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; the environment and key sectors, with a focus on agriculture, forestry, and energy; and theoretical, analytical, and methodological issues concerning environment and development. In each classification, entries are arranged alphabetically by author. Some entries are repeated in different categories if they are pertinent to more than one category.