World without end: Economics, environment, and sustainable development

Technical Report · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:6006853

Pearce, D W; Warford, J J

The volume is the outcome of several years of research, fieldwork, and policy advice concerned with the rapidly growing subject of environmental economics in developing countries. The authors make no claim to originality of research and have borrowed freely from the existing literature. In at least two respects, however, the volume is unique. First, it uses a great deal of material, such as background papers and research conducted for the World Bank, that is not readily available to the wider public. Some of the chapters overlap. This is deliberate and, in fact, unavoidable. Since many readers may only want to read about a specific subject, such as population, poverty, market-based incentives, or tropical forests, the authors have attempted to make each chapter self-contained. The authors experimented with several sequences for the chapters and found that, regardless of the overall structure, the authors frequently had to share information among chapters to make each story coherent.

• Research Organization: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6006853
• Report Number(s): PB-93-225159/XAB; ISBN: 0-19-520881-1
• Resource Relation: Other Information: See also PB--89-217210. Library of Congress catalog card No. 92-39551
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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