Economics, natural-resource scarcity and development : conventional and alternative views

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Economics, natural-resource scarcity and development : conventional and alternative views

Edward B. Barbier

Earthscan, 1989

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Beginning with a critique of environmental and resource economics, Barbier goes on to use the insights provided by environmentalism, ecology and thermodynamics to construct a new economic approach to the use of natural resources and particularly to the probloem of environmental degradation. As the planet warms up and the forests are pulled down, we are urgently in need of an economics which will take these problems into account. With examples from Latin America and Indonesia, the author not only develops a major theoretical advance but shows how it can be applied.

目次

  • Introduction - economics and natural-resource scarcity
  • towards an economics of sustainable development. Part 1 Historical approaches to natural-resource scarcity: Malthusian and Ricardian scarcity
  • Smith, Malthus and Ricardo
  • Mill, Jevons and Marshall
  • the special case of Marx. Part 2 Non-economic influences: conservationism
  • ecology
  • thermodynamics. Part 3 Conventional theory - optimal rates of depletion: conventional theories of natural-resource scarcity
  • exhaustible resources
  • renewable resources. Part 4 Conventional theory - pollution and natural environments: pollution as an externality
  • optimal pollution control - charges versus standards
  • the preservation of natural environments over time. Part 5 An alternative view of natural-resource scarcity: an alternative view of natural-resource scarcity
  • a theoretical model
  • wider implications - technology, tastes and time. Part 6 Two examples - deforestation in Amazonia and the global greenhouse effect: deforestation in Amazonia
  • the global greenhouse effect. Part 7 Upper watershed degradation in Java: on and off-site effects
  • incentives for soil conservation
  • economic policies and investment strategies. Part 8 Conclusion - an economics of sustainable development: some definitions and conditions
  • sustainable development and advanced economies
  • sustainable development and developing economies.

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