Edward B Barbier

Natural Resources and Economic Development

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The second edition of this landmark book explores how natural resources contribute to development in poor economies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 656g
• ISBN-13: 9781316635582
• ISBN-10: 1316635589
• Artikelnr.: 56035064

Autorenporträt

Edward B. Barbier is a Professor in the Department of Economics and a Senior Scholar in the School of Global Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University. A highly cited author and a leading global expert on international environmental policy, he is also a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Overview: 1. Natural resources and developing countries: an overview
2. Natural resource-based economic development in history
3. Does natural resource dependence hinder economic development?
4. Frontier expansion and economic development
Part II. Land and Water Use Change: 5. Explaining land use change in developing countries
6. The economics of land conversion
7. Does water availability constrain economic development?
Part III. Policies for Sustainable Resource-Based Economic-Based Development?: 8. Rural poverty and resource degradation
9. Can resource-based development be successful?
10. Policies for sustainable resource-based development in poor economies.