Environment and Agriculture in a Developing Economy: Problems and Prospects for Bangladesh - Hardcover

Alauddin, Mohammad; Hossain, Mosharaff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184064043X ISBN 13: 9781840640434

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

This book comprehensively examines the performance of Bangladeshi agriculture in light of the most recent thinking on economic development and the environment. It both analyses the experience during the last five decades and discusses the major issues and challenges with special emphasis on the prospects for sustainable agricultural development in the future.

The authors emphasise the importance of distributional aspects of environmental change and development in relation to employment and poverty and also focus on gender issues - often ignored in traditional theory.

Many of the issues that arise in Bangladesh in connection with the agricultural-development nexus are not unique to the country. Parallels exist elsewhere in the developing world and as such Bangladesh is useful as an example from which to draw conclusions about much of the developing world. Environment and Agriculture in a Developing Economy will therefore be of particular interest to developmental and environmental economists as well as international organisations and NGOs committed to environment and development issues.

About this title

About the Author

Mohammad Alauddin, School of Economics, The University of Queensland, Australia and Mosharaff Hossain, Department of Management, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184064043X
• ISBN 13: 9781840640434
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296