Environment and Development Economics
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Sir Partha Dasgupta
By: EDITED BY SCOTT BARRETT, KARL-GÖRAN MÄLER, AND ERIC S. MASKIN
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780199677856
Subjects: Environmental economics; Economic development; Environmental aspects; Environmental policy; Economic aspects
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.