Economic development and environmental sustainability : new policy options / edited by Ramón López and Michael A. Toman.

Table of contents

List of Figures ix

List of Tables xi

List of Boxes xiii

Foreword xv

Overview: Sustainable Development: Towards a Broader policy Agenda 1

1. Natural Capital, Resource Dependency, and poverty in Developing countries: The Problem of ‘Dualism within Dualism’ 23


2. Measuring Development prospects by ‘Greening’ the National Accounts 60


3. Impacts of macroeconomics policies on the Environment, Natural Resources, and Welfare in Developing countries 90

4. Political Economy and Natural Resource use 122


5. Structural Adjustment and Sustainable Development 154

6. Trade and the Environment in Developing Economies 178


7. Environmental policy Instruments and Institutions in Developing countries 217

8. Energy, Equity, and Economic Development 245


9. Water Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries: Insights, Evidences, and Case studies 273

10. Water quality Issues in Developing countries 307


11. Urban Air pollution, Health, and policy Instruments 345

12. The economic Terrestrial Biodiversity conservation in Developing Nations 382


13. Conservation of Tropical forests: Addressing Market Failure 412

14. Appendix 453

Index 463

Includes bibliographical references and index.