tailieunhanh - THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

This book highlights methodological approaches for the economics of sustainable development and brings together recent empirical work done in India, especially by Dr. Surender Kumar and Dr. Shunsuke Managi. Various chapters in this book use Indian data to show the very wide applicability of methodologies in the theory of production for dealing with many empirical issues of environmentally sustainable development in a developing country. I congratulate the authors for the time and effort devoted to compiling this very useful reference on the subject and the publishers for publishing this volume | Natural Resource Management and Policy David Zilberman Renan Goetz Alberto Garrido Series Editors Surender Kumar Shunsuke Managi The Economics of Sustainable Development The Case of India Springer THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT For other titles published in this series go to series 6360 NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND POLICY Editors David Zilberman Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720 Renan Goetz Department of Economics University of Girona Spain Alberto Garrido Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences . Ingenieros Agronomos Madrid Spain EDITORIAL STATEMENT There is a growing awareness to the role that natural resources such as water land forests and environmental amenities play in our lives. There are many competing uses for natural resources and society is challenged to manage them for improving social well being. Furthermore there may be dire consequences to natural resources mismanagement. Renewable resources such as water land and the environment are linked and decisions made with regard to one may affect the others. Policy and management of natural resources now require interdisciplinary approach including natural and social sciences to correctly address our society preferences. This series provides a collection of works containing most recent findings on economics management and policy of renewable biological resources such as water land crop protection sustainable agriculture technology and environmental health. It incorporates modem thinking and techniques of economics and management Books in this series will incorporate knowledge and models of natural phenomena with economics and managerial decision frameworks to assess alternative options for managing natural resources and environment. The Series .