Table of Contents

Introduction xxix
Contributors xxxiii
1. Basic Concepts of Development and Environment
2. Sustainability
3. Main Factors Behind Development and Environmental Change
4. International Political Economy of Environment and Development
5. Decision Making
6. Major Problems of Environmental Degradation and Development
References 353
Index 371

About the Author

Natalia Mirovitskaya is Visiting Research Fellow of Public Policy at Duke University. She is the author of Biological Resources of the Ocean: International Aspects and numerous other publications on international environmental policy and resource management.

William L. Ascher is Vice President, Dean of the Faculty, and Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College in California. His numerous books include Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries, coauthored with Robert Healy and also published by Duke University Press. Mirovitskaya and Ascher are also coauthors of The Caspian Sea: A Quest for Environmental Security.

Reviews

"This useful and unusual resource brings together a large number of interrelating concepts on an important and contentious issue." - Lynton K. Caldwell, author of International Environmental Policy: From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century