Sustainable Economic Development: Resources, Environment, and Institutions - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0128003472 ISBN 13: 9780128003473

Publisher: Academic Press, 2014

Synopsis

Sustainable Economic Development: Resources, Environment, and Institutions presents 25 articles that lay the foundations of sustainable development in a way that facilitates effective policy design. The editors mix broad thematic papers with focused micro-papers, balancing theories with policy designs.The book begins with two sections on sustainable development principles and practice and on specific settings where sustainable development is practiced. Two more sections illuminate institutions, governance, and political economy. Additional sections cover sustainable development and agriculture, and risk and economic security, including disaster management. This rich source of information should appeal to any institution involved in development work, and to development practitioners grappling with an array of difficult on-the-ground developmental challenges.

• Analyzes policies that move markets and resource use patterns towards achieving sustainability
• Articles are kaleidoscopic in scope and creativity
• Authors embody extraordinary diversity and qualifications

About this title

About the Authors

Arsenio Balisacan is a Professor of Economics at the UP School of Economics (on secondment) and Secretary of Socioeconomic Planning in the Cabinet of President Benigno S. Aquino III, Republic of the Philippines.

Ujjayant Chakravorty is Professor of Economics at Tufts University and Fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics and CESifo.

Majah-Leah V. Ravago is Assistant Professor and currently Director for Research at the UP School of Economics.

From the Back Cover

These 25 articles lay down the foundations of sustainable development in a way that facilitates effective policy design. The editors mix broad thematic papers with focused micro papers, balancing theories with policy designs. The result begins with two sections on sustainable development principles and practice and on specific settings where sustainable development is practiced. Two more sections illuminate institutions, governance, and political economy. Additional sections cover sustainable development and agriculture and risk and economic security, including disaster management. This rich source of information should appeal to any institution involved in development work and to development practitioners grappling with an array of difficult on-the-ground developmental challenges.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0128003472
• ISBN 13: 9780128003473
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 532
• Editor: Balisacan Arsenio, Chakravorty Ujjayant, Ravago Majah-Leah