Economic Development, Climate Change, and the Environment

ISBN-13: 9780415424103 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 244 str.

Ajit Sinha; Siddhartha Mitra

Opis

With contributions from renowned economists, scientists and environmentalists, this book examines the problem of environmental degradation and its relationship with economic development.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Environment and Development  2. Environmental Consequences of Liberalisation in Small Open Economies  3. Institutional Evolution and the Environmental Kuznets Curve  4. Environmental Degradation: Bridging the Gap in EKC Literature  5. Disentangling the Climate-Development Gordian Knot: Towards an Integrated Blueprint  6. A Future for the Kyoto Protocol?  7. Estimating Environmentally Sustainable Industrial Development: A Study of Thermal Power Generation  8. Sustainable Development and Public Goods  9. Smallholders and the Forest Logging Industry in the Brazilian Amazon  10. Bio-diesel as Alternative Fuel  11. The Jevon’s Paradox and the Evolution of Complex Adaptive Systems