Environment and Development Economics
SSCI-ISI SCOPUS (1996-2023)
1355-770X
1469-4395
Anh Quốc
Cơ quản chủ quản: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS , Cambridge University Press
Lĩnh vực:
DevelopmentEnvironmental Science (miscellaneous)Economics and Econometrics
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Sustainability and the measurement of wealthAbstract We develop and apply a consistent and comprehensive theoretical framework for assessing whether economic growth is compatible with sustaining wellbeing over time. Our approach differs from earlier approaches by concentrating on wealth rather than income. Sustainability is demonstrated by showing that a properly defined comprehensive measure of wealth is mai... ...
Tập 17 Số 3 - Trang 317-353 - 2012
Payments for environmental services and the poor: concepts and preliminary evidenceABSTRACT Based on observations from all three tropical continents, there is good reason to believe that poor service providers can broadly gain access to payment for environmental services (PES) schemes, and generally become better off from that participation, in both income and non-income terms. However, poverty effects need to be analysed in a conceptual framework... ...
Tập 13 Số 3 - Trang 279-297 - 2008
Payments for ecosystem services and poverty reduction: concepts, issues, and empirical perspectivesPaying for the provision of environmental services is a recent policy innovation attracting much attention in both developed and developing countries. This innovation, referred to as ‘payments for ecosystem services’ (when the emphasis is on enhancing ‘nature’ services) or ‘payments for environmental services’ (when amenities provided by the built environment are also included) is referred... ...
Tập 13 Số 3 - Trang 245-254 - 2008
Governance, economic policy, and the environmental Kuznets curve for natural tropical forestsThis paper reports the results of an empirical analysis of the relationship between income and the rate of deforestation of tropical natural forests. The inverted U-shaped relationship known as the environmental Kuznets curve is confirmed. The study focuses on the role of institutions and macroeconomic policy in the deforestation process. Results indicate that the quality of governance is ... ...
Tập 9 Số 3 - Trang 367-382 - 2004
Opportunity costs of conservation in a biodiversity hotspot: the case of southern Bahia
Tập 10 Số 3 - Trang 293-312 - 2005
Pesticide use in Brazil in the era of agroindustrialization and globalizationThis study examines the trend in pesticide use in Brazil in the 1990s in the context of agroindustrialization and globalization (trade liberalization). It also seeks to document the environmental costs and human health hazard associated with pesticide use in Brazil. Results from time series data indicate that agricultural trade liberalization has led to increased pesticide use in Brazil, p... ...
Tập 6 Số 4 - Trang 459-482 - 2001
Protecting China's children: valuing the health impacts of reduced air pollution in Chinese citiesAs China advances its overall program of economic development, many Chinese cities consistently suffer from unhealthy levels of air pollution. One of the groups most affected is children. This paper provides some quantification regarding the extent of various morbidity costs upon children in portions of urban China. Using China-based health-effects and valuation studies, the authors projec... ...
Tập 10 Số 6 - Trang 745-768 - 2005
Designing integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs): illegal hunting, wildlife conservation, and the welfare of the local peopleThis paper develops a bio-economic model to explore the effect on illegal hunting, wildlife conservation, and human welfare of the most common instruments of two different designs of Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) currently in existence. First, it is demonstrated that the distribution of game meat and money transfers to the local people fails if not explicitly lin... ...
Tập 11 Số 2 - Trang 247-267 - 2006
Greening China's rural energy: new insights on the potential of smallholder biogasAbstract This study assesses a new generation of smallholder biogas, an applied sustainable energy technology currently being rolled out on a massive scale in rural China. In the past, the implementation of biogas programs has been largely disappointing, in China (and elsewhere). User satisfaction with the new program is high, based on purposively collected data fro... ...
Tập 19 Số 1 - Trang 8-29 - 2014
Economic impact of floods in the Indian statesAbstract We examine the impact of economic development and the role of political alignment on the fatalities and damages due to floods using state-level panel data for 19 Indian states over the period 1980–2011. The empirical results confirm that economic development leads to a decline in flood fatalities and damages due to floods across Indian states. This study al... ...
Tập 25 Số 3 - Trang 267-290 - 2020