Environmental economics and natural resource management in developing countries

The decade of the 1980s has witnessed a fundamental change in the way governments and development agencies think about the environment and development. The two are no longer regarded as mutually exclusive. It is now recognized that a healthy environment is essential to sustainable development and a...

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Other Authors: Munasinghe, Mohan, ed
Format: Book
Published: Washington, D.C. Committee of International Development Institutions on the Environment 1993
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Appraisal methodology for sustainable development projects / Hussein Abaza
  • 2. Environmental economics and valuation in development decision making / Mohan Munasinghe and Ernst Lutz
  • 3. Poverty, resources, and fertility: the household as a reproductive partnership / Partha Dasgupta
  • 4. The Question of a public sewerage system in the Caribbean: a case study / Arthur H. Darling, Christian Gomez and Mario E. Niklitschek
  • 5. Environmental economics and natural resource management: The african development bank experience / Anil Markandya and Carlos Muñoz
  • 6. The rural development and environmental protection project in the day forest in Djibouti: a case study / Nessim J. Ahmad
  • 7. Incorporating environmental costs into power development planning: a case study of Sri Lanka / Peter Meier and Mohan Munasinghe
  • 8. National economic cost of soil erosion in Zimbabwe
  • 9. Environmental management: an economic proposal for Uruguay / Roberto Alfredo Recalde
  • 10. Integrated environmental and economic accounting: a case study for Mexico / Jan van Tongeren, Stefan Scheweinfest, Ernst Lutz, María Gomez Luna, Francisco Guillen Martin
  • 11. Issues and options in implementing the Montreal protocol in developing countries / Mohan Munasinghe and Kenneth King
  • Appendix.