1st Edition

Economics of Environment and Development

Edited By Pushpam Kumar Copyright 2007
    360 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Designed specifically for students of economics, business economics, and allied areas at the undergraduate and postgraduate level, this book includes specially contributed articles by acknowledged experts of the discipline from all over the world. It covers critical areas like theory of externalities and market failure, valuation and accounting of environmental impacts, economic instruments for industrial pollution and environmental resources, poverty and environmental degradation, and corporate environmental management. The book also explores how to make development more sustainable, micro economics for ecological sustainability, and environmental policy in open economies.

    Introduction, P. Kumar
    The Sutainnomics Transdisciplinary Metaframework for making Development More Sustainable: Applications to Energy Issues, M. Munasinghe
    Valuation as Part of Micro Economics for Ecological Sustainability, P. Soderbaum
    Methods for Calculating the costs and Benefits of Environmental Change: A Critical Review, C.L. Spash
    Market Based Instruments for Pollution Abatement in India, M.N. Murthy
    Integrated Environment and Economic Accounting: Framework for SNA Satellite System, P. Bartelmus, C. Stahmer, and J. Van Tongeren
    Formal Models and Practical Measurement for Greening the Accounts, K. Hamilton
    The Standard Welfare Economics of Policies Affecting Trade and the Environment, K. Anderson
    General Models of Environmental Policy and Foreign Trade, K.W. Steininger
    Partial Equilibrium Models of Trade and the Environment, K. Krutilla
    Environmental Policy in Open Economies, M. Rauscher
    Environmental Management in Business Firm, P. Kumar
    Poverty and Environment Degradation: A Review and Analysis of the Nexus, A.K. Duraiappah

    Biography

    Kumar, Pushpam