Economics of Sustainable Development [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910449910303321
• Autore: Asefa Sisay
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Kalamazoo, : W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2005
• ISBN: 1-4175-9632-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.9/27
• Soggetti: Economic development; Sustainable development; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 - The Concept of Sustainable Development: An Introduction, by Sisay Asefa; 2 - Some Neglected Aspects of Sustainable Development, by Malcolm Gillis; 3 - Economic Development, Inequality, and War, by E. Wayne Nafziger and Juha Auvinen; 4 - Productivity Growth in World Agriculture: Sources and Constraints, by Vernon W. Ruttan; 5 - How the World Survived the Population Bomb: An Economic Perspective, by David Lam; 6 - Property Rights and the Urgent Challenge of Environmental Sustainability, by Daniel W. Bromley; 7 - Too Poor to Be Stewards?: Rural Poverty and Sustainable Natural Resource Management, by Scott M. SwintonThe Authors; Index; About the Institute