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Environment and Development: An Economic Approach (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
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Environment and Development: An Economic Approach (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
Series: Economy & Environment, 2
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This book is a thoroughly revised text based on a report
commissioned by the Swedish International Development Authority
(SIDA). The financial grant from SIDA which made the work possible
is hereby gratefully acknowledged. We gratefully accepted the offer
from Kluwer Academic Publishers to revise the text. Hopefully, the
text can be of interest to decision-makers, development programme
personnel, teachers and the general public interested in how
economics can contribute to better environmental decision-making.
There are already many books on the market about environmental
economics, some of them very good. What is special about this one?
We do not claim to have obtained new results, but we have our own
way of presenting the subject matter. In particular, we are of the
opinion that policy failures are often overlooked as an obstacle to
efficient environmental management. Although the main emphasis in
this book is on project level analysis, it is essential that such
analyses be linked to an understanding of the (dis)incentives for
environmental improvements that general economic and particular
environmental policies provide. Another essential feature of the
book, although this is not unique, is the links provided between
theory and empirical illustrations. We hope that this will
illustrate to our readers the practical usefulness, but also the
difficulties, of applying economics to environmental problems. In
principle, this book can be read by anyone interested in the
subject matter, without any formal education in economics. However,
some background in microeconomic theory makes the reading easier.
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