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Author Pearce, David W. (David William)

Title World without end : economics, environment, and sustainable development / David W. Pearce and Jeremy J. Warford
Published New York, N.Y. : Published for the World Bank [by] Oxford University Press, 1993

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Description xi, 440 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents pt. 1. Sustainable Development. 1. Environment and Development: An Overview. 2. The Concept of Sustainable Development. 3. Fairness and Time. 4. Measuring Sustainable Development. 5. Evaluating Environmental Damage and Benefits -- pt. 2. Resource Degradation: Causes and Policy Responses. 6. Population, Resources, and Environment. 7. Policy Failure: Pricing below Private Cost. 8. Market Failure: Social Pricing Distortions. 9. Planning Failure: Socialist Planning and the Environment. 10. Property Rights Failure and Renewable Resources. 11. Poverty, Income Distribution, and Environment -- pt. 3. International Environmental Issues. 12. World Markets and Natural Resource Degradation. 13. Transfrontier Environmental Issues. 14. Managing Global Resources
Analysis Economic development
International comparisons
Natural resources
Overseas item
Sustainable development
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-[426]) and index
Subject Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
Environmental policy -- Economic aspects.
Sustainable development.
Author Warford, Jeremy J.
World Bank.
LC no. 92039551
ISBN 0195208811