ISBN:
9781781951125
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 202 p)
,
ill
Series Statement:
Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
Parallel Title:
Available in another form
Parallel Title:
Elektronische Reproduktion von Environmental economics and policy making in developing countries
DDC:
333.7/09172/4
Keywords:
Umweltökonomik
;
Umweltpolitik
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Lateinamerika
;
Environmental economics
;
Electronic books
;
Developing countries Economic policy
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Umweltökonomie
;
Rodung
;
Umweltverträglichkeit
Abstract:
The authors provide a comprehensive analysis of topics varying from the general problems of growth and conservation to specific applications such as; pollution costs, environmental taxation, deforestation and climate change. This volume also offers policymakers a comprehensive view of the challenges they face, and the legacies they leave, in order to convert environmental policy making into an actual programme of welfare improvement
Abstract:
1. Economic growth, the environment and welfare : are they compatible? -- 2. The impact of perverse subsidies on international trade and the environment -- 3. Valuing statistical lives -- 4. The valuation of health impacts in developing countries -- 5. Economic instruments for waste management in Brazil -- 6. Deforestation, land degradation and rural poverty in Latin America : examining the evidence -- 7. Public policies and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon -- 8. Technology, climate change, productivity and land use in Brazilian agriculture -- 9. Economic incentives and forest concessions in Brazil
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.4337/9781781951125
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