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Environment and development economics, essays in honor of Sir Partha Dasgupta, edited by Scott Barrett, Karl-Göran Mäler, and Eric S. Maskin

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Environment and development economics

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edited by Scott Barrett, Karl-Göran Mäler, and Eric S. Maskin

essays in honor of Sir Partha Dasgupta

This book honours Partha Dasgupta, and the field he helped establish; environment and development economics. It concerns the relationship between social systems (to include families, local communities, national economies, and the world as a whole) and natural systems (critical ecosystems, forests, water resources, mineral deposits, pollution, fisheries, and the Earth's climate). Above all, it concerns the poverty-environment nexus: the complex pathways by which people become or remain poor, and resources become or remain overexploited. With contributions by some of the world's leading economists, including five recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economics, in addition to scholars based in developing countries, this volume offers a unique perspective on the environmental issues that matter most to developing countries.--, Provided by Publisher

I. Introduction and Overview 1. Partha Dasgupta's Contributions to Environment and Development Economics, Scott Barrett, Karl-Goran Maler, and Eric Maskin II. Foundations 2. Learning, Growth and Development: A Lecture in Honor of Sir Partha Dasgupta, Joseph E. Stiglitz 3. Some Perspectives on Linked Ecosystems and Socio-Economic Systems, Kenneth J. Arrow, Paul Ehrlich, and Simon Levin 4. An Institutional Analysis of Development Cooperation, Elinor Ostrom, Clark Gibson, Sujal Shivakumar, and Krister Andersson III. Applications 5. Climate Change, Cook Stoves, and Coughs and Colds: Thinking Global and Acting Local in Rural Nepal, Krishna Prasad Pant, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, and Min Bikram Malla 6. Comments by Joseph E. Stiglitz on Climate Change, Cook Stoves, and Coughs and Colds, Joseph E. Stiglitz 7. Red Wells or Green Wells and Does it Matter? Examining Household Use of Arsenic Contaminated Water in Bangladesh, A.K.E. Haque, Z.H. Khan, M. Nepal, and Priya Shyamsundar 8. Comments by David Starrett on Red Wells or Green Wells, David Starrett 9. Forest Degradation in the Himalayas: Determinants and Policy Options, Jean-Marie Baland, Sanghamitra Das, and Dilip Mookerjee 10. Comments by Geoffrey Heal on Forest Degradation in the Himalayas, Geoffrey Heal 11. An Optimal Contract for Monitoring Illegal Exploitation of Co-Managed Forests in Benin, Albert N. Honlonkou and Rashid Hassan 12. Comments by Eric Maskin on An Optimal Contract, Eric Maskin 13. Why Cooperation is Better: The Gains to Cooperative Management of the Argentine Shortfin Squid Fishery in South America, Sebastian Villasante, Rashid Sumaila and Manel Antelo 14. Comments by Peter Hammond on Why Cooperation is Better, Peter Hammond 15. Occupational and Environmental Health Impacts from Mining in Orissa, India, Karnjana Sanglimsuwam, Erin O. Sills, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, Shubhayu Saha, Ashok Singha, and Barendra Sahoo 16. Comments by Robert Solow on Occupational and Environmental Health Impacts, Robert Solow 17. Estimating the Value of Statistical Life for Children in Metro Manila, Rosalina Palanca-Tan 18. Comments by Shanta Devarajan on Estimating the Value of Statistical Life, Shanta Devarajan IV. The Poverty-Environment-Population Nexus in India 19. Natural Resources and Chronic Poverty in India: Interface and Policy Imperatives, Amita Shah 20. Comments by Kanchan Chopra on Natural Resources and Chronic Poverty, Kanchan Chopra