The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 1 pdf

Il professor Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta (nato il 17 novembre 1942), FBA, FRS, è Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics presso l'Università di Cambridge, Regno Unito; Fellow del St John's College, Cambridge; membro onorario del Trinity College di Cambridge; e Professore di Economia ambientale e dello sviluppo presso l'Università di Manchester. Gli interessi di ricerca hanno riguardato il benessere e l'economia dello sviluppo; l'economia del cambiamento tecnologico; economia della popolazione, dell'ambiente e delle risorse; capitale sociale; la teoria dei giochi; e l'economia della malnutrizione. È nato a Dhaka, in Bangladesh, poi in India, ed è figlio del noto economista A.K. Dasgupta. È sposato con Carol Dasgupta, psicoterapeuta. Hanno tre figli, Zubeida Dasgupta-Clark (psicologo dell'educazione), Shamik (professore di filosofia) e Aisha (che si occupa di salute riproduttiva nei paesi poveri).

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