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This edited book brings together in one place new studies of
rural-urban interactions and their implications for regional growth
and development in different regions within Asia. Specifically, the
individual chapters in the book shed light on the different kinds
of rural-urban interactions that we witness in Asian regions,
particularly those that are based on migration, poverty,
inequality, education, economic dependence, and the flow of goods
and services. The book departs from the existing literature in
three ways. First, it explicitly recognizes that different kinds of
rural-urban interactions have dissimilar impacts on the lives and
hence on the welfare of the residents of rural and urban regions.
Second, the book emphasizes the varied spatial and temporal
dimensions of the interactions and the ways in which these
dimensions influence rural and urban societies. Third, this book
demonstrates the ways in which an understanding of the preceding
two points contributes to our knowledge about economic growth and
development. Because Asia is the fastest-growing and most dynamic
continent in the world today, the research delineated in the
individual chapters of the book provides practical guidance
concerning two salient questions. First, how do we effectively
address the economic development challenges stemming from the
interactions between alternate rural and urban regions within Asia?
Second, how do we ensure that the policies we design to address
these challenges give rise to broad-based economic growth and
development that is sustainable?
Issues related to environmental protection and trade liberalization have moved to the forefront of international policy agendas. The Economics of International Trade and the Environment explores - from an economic standpoint - many of the questions that are germane in increasing our knowledge of environmental policy in the presence of international trade and trade policy in the presence of environmental externalities. Ultimately we must ask "What can economic theory tell us about the connections between environmental and trade policy?" This book uses the tools of game and microeconomic theory to analyze diverse issues such as: the effects of international trade in waste products on illegal disposal, the nature of environmental policy when market structure and plant locations are endogenous, and the issue of ecological dumping. The authors apply economic theory to practical settings to ascertain the extent to which this theory can inform policy decisions about problems at the interface of international trade and the environment. Edited by well-known researchers and authors, this is the only resource that can serve as an effective guide to the theoretical and empirical literature on international trade and the environment. The Economics of International Trade and the Environment provides comprehensive coverage on a wide variety of topics and contains the most recent contributions in this area and is suitable as a graduate course in Economics and International Trade
This edited book brings together in one place new studies of
rural-urban interactions and their implications for regional growth
and development in different regions within Asia. Specifically, the
individual chapters in the book shed light on the different kinds
of rural-urban interactions that we witness in Asian regions,
particularly those that are based on migration, poverty,
inequality, education, economic dependence, and the flow of goods
and services. The book departs from the existing literature in
three ways. First, it explicitly recognizes that different kinds of
rural-urban interactions have dissimilar impacts on the lives and
hence on the welfare of the residents of rural and urban regions.
Second, the book emphasizes the varied spatial and temporal
dimensions of the interactions and the ways in which these
dimensions influence rural and urban societies. Third, this book
demonstrates the ways in which an understanding of the preceding
two points contributes to our knowledge about economic growth and
development. Because Asia is the fastest-growing and most dynamic
continent in the world today, the research delineated in the
individual chapters of the book provides practical guidance
concerning two salient questions. First, how do we effectively
address the economic development challenges stemming from the
interactions between alternate rural and urban regions within Asia?
Second, how do we ensure that the policies we design to address
these challenges give rise to broad-based economic growth and
development that is sustainable?
This book addresses two general questions that have arisen as a
result of the uneven rise of the various Asian economies in
contemporary times. First, to lift people out of poverty and to
improve the quality of their lives, how do we institute policies
that will ensure economic growth in the different regions of Asia?
Second, what can we do to ensure that the economic growth we seek
is sustainable so that the regional economic development that
emerges is broad-based, inclusive, and environmentally conscious?
Specifically, this edited book will provide a unified perspective
on regional growth and sustainable development in Asia by focusing
on the above two broad questions. The book will emphasize dynamic
modeling and it will illustrate the role that sound theoretical and
empirical modeling of an intertemporal nature can play in shedding
light on salient public policy questions concerning regional growth
and sustainable development. The specific topics to be addressed in
this book include growth accounting, natural resource use and
management, the regulation of environmental externalities,
geographic information systems, and regional climate change. The
individual chapters in this book will be written by international
experts who are also active researchers in their respective fields.
Therefore, this book is highly recommended to all readers who seek
an in-depth and up-to-date perspective on some of the most salient
issues at the interface of regional growth and sustainable
development in Asia.
This book addresses two general questions that have arisen as a
result of the uneven rise of the various Asian economies in
contemporary times. First, to lift people out of poverty and to
improve the quality of their lives, how do we institute policies
that will ensure economic growth in the different regions of Asia?
Second, what can we do to ensure that the economic growth we seek
is sustainable so that the regional economic development that
emerges is broad-based, inclusive, and environmentally conscious?
Specifically, this edited book will provide a unified perspective
on regional growth and sustainable development in Asia by focusing
on the above two broad questions. The book will emphasize dynamic
modeling and it will illustrate the role that sound theoretical and
empirical modeling of an intertemporal nature can play in shedding
light on salient public policy questions concerning regional growth
and sustainable development. The specific topics to be addressed in
this book include growth accounting, natural resource use and
management, the regulation of environmental externalities,
geographic information systems, and regional climate change. The
individual chapters in this book will be written by international
experts who are also active researchers in their respective fields.
Therefore, this book is highly recommended to all readers who seek
an in-depth and up-to-date perspective on some of the most salient
issues at the interface of regional growth and sustainable
development in Asia.
Issues related to environmental protection and trade liberalization
have moved to the forefront of international policy agendas. The
Economics of International Trade and the Environment explores -
from an economic standpoint - many of the questions that are
germane in increasing our knowledge of environmental policy in the
presence of international trade and trade policy in the presence of
environmental externalities. Ultimately we must ask "What can
economic theory tell us about the connections between environmental
and trade policy?" This book uses the tools of game and
microeconomic theory to analyze diverse issues such as: the effects
of international trade in waste products on illegal disposal, the
nature of environmental policy when market structure and plant
locations are endogenous, and the issue of ecological dumping. The
authors apply economic theory to practical settings to ascertain
the extent to which this theory can inform policy decisions about
problems at the interface of international trade and the
environment. Edited by well-known researchers and authors, this is
the only resource that can serve as an effective guide to the
theoretical and empirical literature on international trade and the
environment. The Economics of International Trade and the
Environment provides comprehensive coverage on a wide variety of
topics and contains the most recent contributions in this area and
is suitable as a graduate course in Economics and International
Trade
This book brings together new studies on regional disparities in
the provision and maintenance of health in Asia. Specifically, the
individual chapters shed light on the various health challenges
that Asian regions face with regard to environmental health,
communicable and non-communicable diseases, reproductive health,
and the development of health systems. The book departs from the
existing literature on this subject in three ways. First, it
explicitly recognizes that health is essential to the daily lives
of human beings. Second, it underscores the fact that good health
improves learning, employee productivity, and incomes. Third, the
book demonstrates the ways in which an understanding of the
preceding two points contributes to our grasp of economic growth
and development. Because Asia is now the fastest-growing and most
dynamic continent in the world, the respective chapters provide
practical guidance concerning two key questions: First, how do we
effectively address the health challenges in individual regions of
Asia? Second, how do we ensure that the proposed health
interventions lead to sustainable economic growth and development?
To this end, the book emphasizes modeling and illustrates the role
that sound empirical modeling can play in developing measures that
sustainably address the health challenges confronting disparate
Asian regions. All chapters were written by international experts
who are active researchers in their respective fields. Hence, this
book is highly recommended to all readers seeking an in-depth and
up-to-date perspective on some of the most important issues at the
interface of human health and regional growth and development in
Asia.
We are now at a point where 'analytical advances' permit
researchers to theoretically and empirically formulate, model, and
test many of the ideas pertaining to the working of Richard
Florida's 'creative class' in interesting and new ways. The kind of
advances we have in mind include, but are not limited to, recent
developments in growth theory in economics, improvements in
statistics and in regional science that permit researchers to
analyze data in novel ways, and progress in computer science that
allows researchers to take advantage of, for instance, natural
language processing. The objective of this book is to demonstrate
how new analytical advances permit one to have a richer and more
nuanced understanding of the ways in which the creative class has
functioned and the ways in which its abilities can be harnessed for
the betterment of society at large.
This book brings together new studies on regional disparities in
the provision and maintenance of health in Asia. Specifically, the
individual chapters shed light on the various health challenges
that Asian regions face with regard to environmental health,
communicable and non-communicable diseases, reproductive health,
and the development of health systems. The book departs from the
existing literature on this subject in three ways. First, it
explicitly recognizes that health is essential to the daily lives
of human beings. Second, it underscores the fact that good health
improves learning, employee productivity, and incomes. Third, the
book demonstrates the ways in which an understanding of the
preceding two points contributes to our grasp of economic growth
and development. Because Asia is now the fastest-growing and most
dynamic continent in the world, the respective chapters provide
practical guidance concerning two key questions: First, how do we
effectively address the health challenges in individual regions of
Asia? Second, how do we ensure that the proposed health
interventions lead to sustainable economic growth and development?
To this end, the book emphasizes modeling and illustrates the role
that sound empirical modeling can play in developing measures that
sustainably address the health challenges confronting disparate
Asian regions. All chapters were written by international experts
who are active researchers in their respective fields. Hence, this
book is highly recommended to all readers seeking an in-depth and
up-to-date perspective on some of the most important issues at the
interface of human health and regional growth and development in
Asia.
There is no doubt that the phenomenon we now call globalization has
brought many benefits to the citizens of our heterogeneous world.
Inter alia, this phenomenon has resulted in the increased mobility
of humans, goods, and services from one part of the world to
another. International trade in both final goods and services and
in various factors of production has risen, and this rise has
generally seen the welfare improving for all the involved parties.
This rise in international trade in particular and of mobility more
generally has also led to the spread of all manner of animals,
plants, and other organisms from places where they are native to
new locales, where they are not. As noted by Vitousek et al.
(1997), Mooney (1999), and others, it is salient to comprehend that
although this movement and spread of animal and plant species from
one part of the world to another predates the modern era of
globalization, the phenomenon of globalization has accelerated this
mobility. Animal and plant species that have moved from a part of
the world where they are native to another part of the world where
they are not are said to be invasive species. Such species are also
referred to as "alien," as "exotic," and as "non-native" species.
For the purpose of consistency, we shall use the term "invasive,"
in this chapter. Olson (2006) points out that this movement of
animal and plant species can occur naturally, as a result of
specific ecological processes or as a result of deliberate human
activity. In addition, even if we restrict attention to invasive
species introductions that are the result of conscious human
activity, such introductions can be either intentional or
unintentional in nature. Humans have been intentionally introducing
animal and plant species into parts of the world where they are not
native, for many decades. These intentional introductions broadly
fall into two categories. The first category consists of
introductions that are largely ornamental in nature. Exotic pets
such as fish, parrots, and all manner of orchids readily come to
mind. The second category is made up of introductions that form the
basis of what is now known as biological control. The basic
objective here is to use a specific animal or plant species that is
a predator of another prey species whose population is sought to be
controlled. McConnachie et al. (2003) review ten benefit-cost
studies of biological control programs and note that such programs
can be very successful. However, the work of Nogales et al. (2004)
shows that biological control programs can also go awry and give
rise to unintended consequences. Most countries today have
protocols for dealing with the intentional introductions of
invasive species, although it should not go unsaid that the quality
and the effectiveness of these protocols vary considerably.
The central objective of this work is to demonstrate how the theory
of stochastic processes and the techniques of stochastic modeling
can be used to effectively model arranged marriage settings and to
help explain various aspects of the nature of decision-making in
arranged marriages. Economists_and social scientists more
generally_will find this book useful when conducting empirical and
theoretical research on a subject of considerable importance in
contemporary times.
Although rangelands are one of the most important
ecological-economic systems on our planet, researchers thus far
have paid scant attention to the study of range management from a
theoretical perspective. As such, this book provides a systematic
approach to the theoretical study of range management under
uncertainty. In particular, the book demonstrates how the theory of
stochastic processes and the techniques of stochastic modelling can
be used to construct and analyse theoretical models of jointly
determined rangelands and thereby shed light on the task of range
management. Because specialised grazing systems involving the
rotation of animals between pastures have been a major focus of
range managers since the 1950s, this book pays considerable
attention to questions that arise when specialised grazing systems
such as short duration grazing are used to manage rangelands.
Specific issues that are analysed in this book include the optimal
number of paddocks in short duration grazing, the steady state
distribution of animals in short duration grazing. Also, the effect
of potential irreversibilities, the choice between the stocking
rate and time, herding in ranch operations, and the role of time in
range management, is discussed.
Although international trade has been much studied by both
economists and regional scientists, the nature, causes, and the
consequences of interregional trade, i.e., trade between regions
within countries has received far less attention. In addition,
given recent advances in new economic geography on the theoretical
front and in the development of both input-output and computable
general equilibrium models on the empirical front, the important
subject of interregional trade is now open to study using these
theoretical and empirical methodologies. Given this state of
affairs, this book aims to present chapters written by a carefully
selected group of experts in the field and thereby shed valuable
light on key outstanding questions concerning the region and trade.
These questions include, but are not limited to, the role of
external economies in shaping the pattern of interregional trade,
the role of natural resources versus traditional factors of
production such as labor and capital in driving interregional
trade, the relationship between transport and interregional trade,
"high value" interregional trade in services, and the role of
interregional trade estimation in the construction of a
multi-regional, input-output system.
Dynamic and Stochastic Resource Economics: Essays on Biodiversity,
Invasive Species, Joint Systems, and Regulation is a collection of
Professor Batabyal's previously published and unpublished papers on
the subject of natural resource and environmental economics. The
book demonstrates how new dynamic and probabilistic techniques can
be profitably used to study a whole host of research questions in
natural resource management, biological diversity, ecological
economics, invasive species management, and environmental
regulation.The book collects the results of frontier-level research
in many different areas within the general field of natural
resource and environmental economics. It also shows how theoretical
modeling, frequently using techniques that are unfamiliar to
economists, can be gainfully utilized to shed new light on a whole
host of issues, some of which have not been modeled previously in a
comprehensive manner. Finally, this book draws connections between
the different areas that are covered so as to provide a common
methodological approach to research questions and a unified
perspective on the key issues in natural resource and environmental
economics.
A collection of scholarly accounts and articles written by
recognized experts in environmental economics, this book is the
first of its kind and as a valuable reference and textual source
for graduate students and active researchers. It draws together the
pedagogical discussion of the key tools used to conduct theoretical
and empirical research in natural resource and environmental
economics. With contributions by prominent international
researchers like Robert Ayres, Charles Perrings and Anastasios
Xepapadeas, the book will be useful for researchers who wish to
learn new techniques or change their area of research emphasis
within natural resource and environmental economics or those who
wish to familiarize themselves with these tools.
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