The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 1 PDF

Professor Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta (geboren am 17. November 1942), FBA, FRS, ist Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics an der University of Cambridge, Vereinigtes Königreich; Stipendiat des St. John's College, Cambridge; Ehrenmitglied des Trinity College, Cambridge; und Professor für Umwelt- und Entwicklungsökonomie an der University of Manchester. Forschungsinteressen umfassten Wohlfahrts- und Entwicklungsökonomie; die Ökonomie des technologischen Wandels; Bevölkerungs-, Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomie; Sozialkapital; die Theorie der Spiele; und die Ökonomie der Mangelernährung. Er wurde in Dhaka, Bangladesch, dann in Indien geboren und ist der Sohn des bekannten Ökonomen A.K. Dasgupta. Er ist mit Carol Dasgupta, einer Psychotherapeutin, verheiratet. Sie haben drei Kinder, Zubeida Dasgupta-Clark (eine pädagogische Psychologin), Shamik (eine Philosophieprofessorin) und Aisha (die sich mit reproduktiver Gesundheit in armen Ländern beschäftigt).

The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 1 pdf von Partha Dasgupta

Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day-to-day basis by the allocation and use of purely local resources. Yet "official" development economics has concentrated on headline international issues and only recently begun to take account of the dependence of poor countries on their natural resources, the link between acute poverty and environmental degradation, and the problems associated with the management of local common property such as soil and soil cover, water, forests and their products, animals and fisheries. In this volume, part of the WIDER Program on the Economics of the Environment, expert contributors provide a set of authoritative studies of emerging development issues, ranging from foundational matters to case studies, original research (in areas where there has been a paucity of work) to survey papers. They address both analytic and empirical issues on the role of environmental resources in the development process, presenting explanations of existing situations and policies for the future. A wealth of interests and backgrounds is represented, and reflected in the cross-fertilization between papers.