Environmental economics in the developing world, part I

The following topics are addressed: (1) various definitions of sustainable development; (2) recent developments in the field of environmental accounting, focusing in the main on developed country experience; (3) the problem of monetary valuation of environmental aspects and environmental change; (4) discounting as a tool of project analysis; (5) the impact of property rights on renewable resources; (6) how policy failure leads to environmental degradation; (7) the effect of agricultural pricing on land use, resource use, and development; (8) international environmental policy, particularly the mechanisms through which international transfers can be effected and the consequences of global warming; (9) population growth and environment; and (10) the relationship between poverty and environmental degradation.