Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability
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OverviewRamón López and Michael A. Toman: Sustainable Development: Towards a Broader Policy Agenda
1: Edward B Barbier: Natural Capital, Resource Dependency and Poverty in Developing Countries: The Problem of "Dualism within Dualism"
2: Kirk Hamilton and Rashid Hassan: Measuring Development Prospects by 'Greening' the National Accounts
3: Jon Strand and B. Gabriela Mundaca: Impacts of Macroeconomic Policies on the Environment, Natural Resources and Welfare in Developing Countries
4: Robert T. Deacon and Bernardo Mueller: Political Economy and Natural Resource Use
5: Ramón López: Structural Adjustment and Sustainable Development
6: Brian R. Copeland and Sumeet Gulati: Trade and the Environment in Developing Economies
7: 4. J.E. Somanathan and Thomas Sterner: Environmental Policy Instruments and Instututions in Developing Countries
8: Douglas F. Barnes and Michael A. Toman: Energy, Equity and Economic Development
9: R. Maria Saleth and Ariel Dinar: Water Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries: Insights, Evidences, and Case Studies
10: Anil Markandya: Water Quality Issues in Developing Countries
11: Alan J. Krupnick: Urban Air Pollution, Health and Policy Instruments
12: Heidi J. Albers and Paul Ferraro: The Economics of Terrestrial Biodiversity Conservation in Developing Nations
13: Erwin Bulte and Stefanie Engel: Conservation of Tropical Forests: Addressing Market Failure
14: Michael A. Toman: Appendix

About the Author

Ramón López is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland at College Park. He is also a Senior Fellow at the University of Bonn (ZEF) and Chair of the Publication Review Committee at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC. Professor López is the author or co-author of several books on economic growth, rural poverty and the environment and
has held various editorial responsibilities in several important journals. Michael A. Toman is an adjunct faculty member in the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC; and in
the Bren School of the Environment, University of California, Santa Barbara. He also works as a senior environmental economist in a multilateral economic development organization. He is the (co) author and (co) editor of several books on the economics of energy, environmental protection, climate change, and sustainable development.

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`'This is an important collection of essays. They are of a consistently high standard and the authors in general are among the leading writers in this much neglected field.''
The late Professor David Pearce

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