Title: The Economics and Ecology of Biodiversity Decline: The Forces Driving Global Change
Abstract: List of contributors Preface Acknowledgement 1. Why does biodiversity decline? The analysis of forces for global change Timothy M. Swanson Part I. Diversity Decline as Choice of Development Path: 2. Incentives, development and population: a growth-theoretic perspective Jeffrey A. Krautkraemer 3. Biodiversity, economic growth and the discount rate Bob Rowthorn and Gardner Brown 4. Uniformity in development and the decline of biological diversity Timothy M. Swanson Part II. Diversity Decline as Institutional Failure: 5. Decline in biodiversity and risk-adjusted net national product John M. Hartwick 6. Biodiversity conservation as insurance Charles Perrings 7. Property rights, externalities and biodiversity Roger A. Sedjo and R. David Simpson Part III. Diversity Decline as Policy Failure: 8. Economic progress and habitat conservation in Latin America Douglas Southgate 9. Prudence and profligacy: a human ecological perspective Madhav Gadgil 10. Tropical deforestation: population, poverty and biodiversity Norman Myers Part IV. Diversity Decline as Consequence of Development: 11. Human population dynamics and biodiversity loss Fraser D. M. Smith, Gretchen C. Daily and Paul R. Ehrlich 12. Scale and the feedback mechanism in market economics Colin W. Clark 13. Can economics protect biodiversity? Jonathan Roughgardern Index.
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-06-28
Language: en
Type: book
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