The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 1 pdf

El profesor Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta (nacido el 17 de noviembre de 1942), FBA, FRS, es el Profesor Frank Ramsey de Economía en la Universidad de Cambridge, Reino Unido; miembro del St John's College de Cambridge; miembro honorario del Trinity College, Cambridge; y profesor de Economía Ambiental y del Desarrollo en la Universidad de Manchester. Los intereses de investigación han abarcado la economía del bienestar y el desarrollo; la economía del cambio tecnológico; economía demográfica, ambiental y de recursos; capital social; la teoría de los juegos; y la economía de la desnutrición. Nació en Dhaka, Bangladesh, luego en India, y es hijo del destacado economista A.K. Dasgupta. Está casado con Carol Dasgupta, quien es psicoterapeuta. Tienen tres hijos, Zubeida Dasgupta-Clark (psicóloga educativa), Shamik (profesora de filosofía) y Aisha (que trabaja en salud reproductiva en países pobres).

The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 1 pdf por 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.