1. Summary -- 2. Introduction -- 2.1 Background -- 2.2 Sustainable Development -- 2.3 Disposition and Delimitations -- 3. Distortions in the Economic System and the Need for Economic Analysis -- 3.1 The “Bench-mark” Economy -- 3.2 Market Failures -- 3.3 Policy Failures -- 3.4 Summary -- 4....

This book is the second, revised, edition of a text based on a report commissioned by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). The main purposes of this book are: to discuss the causes of environmental degradation from an economic perspective; to provide a conceptual framework for the...

This book is a collection of Amitrajeet A Batabyal's most important papers on the environment and economic development. It begins with a comprehensive and previously unpublished introductory chapter, followed by 12 chapters on different problems such as land use for agricultural purposes,...

1. Introduction -- 2. One Human Race; a Shared Destiny -- 3. Historical Background -- 4. Societal Processes of Change -- 5. Culture and Civilization -- 6. Materialism in Historical Perspective -- 7. Dynamics of Power, Wealth and Knowledge -- 8. Decline of Democracy and Capitalism -- 9. A Folk...

Conditions of poverty in Indian country are often compared to those of developing nations. As astonishing as it may seem to an outsider, many Indian reservations exist without a basic infrastructure of roads, plumbing, electricity, access to healthcare, and criminal law enforcement. These...