[EQ] Valuing the Environment - Economics for a Sustainable Future

Valuing the Environment Economics for a Sustainable Future

David Glover leads the Environmental Economics program at Canada’s International Development Research Centre IDRC
 

IDRC 2010 - ISBN 978-1-55250-476-5 - e-ISBN 978-1-55250-479-6 - 108 pp.

 Disponible en français / Disponible en español

Full text available online at: http://bit.ly/acECCN

“……A vast number of people in developing countries depend on the natural environment for their livelihoods — on farmland or forests, wetlands or coastal areas. For these people, the environment is much more than a source of recreation — it is the basis of the economy. But poorly functioning markets, incomplete property rights, and misguided policies can drive people’s behaviour in ways that are rational in the short term or from an individual’s point of view, but harmful to the environment and future generations.

Economics has much to offer in understanding and influencing this behaviour. It also provides tools for decision-makers faced with difficult choices. How can we compare the value of environmental benefits to the costs of safeguarding them? How can we assess the impacts of environmental action (or inaction) on the poor? How should we share the costs of improvements?

This book shows how researchers from four of IDRC’s regional environmental economics networks have dealt with questions like these in a wide variety of situations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It brings together insights from more than 15 years of research and assesses their impact on policy and the research community. It concludes by looking at the future of environmental economics in the developing regions of the world.

VALUING THE ENVIRONMENT: Executive Summary 2010

VALUING THE ENVIRONMENT: Foreword Sir Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge, UK 2010

VALUING THE ENVIRONMENT: Preface 2010

VALUING THE ENVIRONMENT: Part 1. The Issues 2010

This chapter outlines the central ideas and principles of environmental economics, and traces the evolution of the regional et works that have been established to promote the approach in developing countries.

Basic principles

Market and policy failures

The search for solutions

Environmental economics in developing countries

Recognizing a gap

From Rio to reality

VALUING THE ENVIRONMENT: Part 2. Environmental Economics in Action 2010

Thirty stories from the field illustrate the kinds of questions that environmental economics can help answer. These vignettes showcase the work of researchers in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and give a sense of how their findings have helped

improve environmental policies.

Valuing the environment

Applying the principles

Financing conservation

Information for policy design

Putting ideas into action

Economics: Helping in the search for solutions

VALUING THE ENVIRONMENT: Part 3. Pioneers of Change 2010

This section describes in detail how the regional environmental economics networks have developed the skills of researchers, and introduces a few of the talented individuals who are carrying the work forward into new areas.

A model for building skills

Developing careers

Drawing in the media

Educating students

Applying research to development

Country-to-country collaboration

Institutionalizing environmental economics

VALUING THE ENVIRONMENT: Part 4. Lessons and Future Directions 2010

This chapter presents key lessons drawn from IDRC’s 15-year effort to build the field of environmental economics in developing countries. It also looks ahead to a future in which economic principles are applied wherever they can help make action to protect the environment more effective, more equitable, and less costly.

Lessons for policymakers

Future directions
Into the mainstream

VALUING THE ENVIRONMENT: Glossary 2010


VALUING THE ENVIRONMENT: Bibliography 2010

 

 

 

 

 

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