Environmental and Resource Economics in the World of the Poor: An Invited Lecture on the Occasion of the Forty-fifth Anniversary of Resources for the Future
By Partha Dasgupta.
Description
An eminent economist and social thinker explains his views on why traditional environmental and resource economics has not met the needs of the developing world. The gaps between haves and have-nots are so great, says Partha Dasgupta, that many premises of our analyses are mistaken or irrelevant in other international contexts. Thus, 'the environmental economics to be found in the literature in the North cannot much resonate in the South.' This breach helps explain the exclusion of environmental concerns from economic modeling in poor nations, causing problematic gaps in developme...
ISBN(s)
0915707918, 9780915707911
