Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 27 Issue 1/2

Development and the environment: an introduction

Roger Perman, P.B. Anand

This paper has two objectives. First, it investigates some conceptual linkages between the sub‐disciplines of development economics and environmental economics. We find common…

Sustainability, growth and development

Charles Perrings, Alberto Ansuategi

The Brundtland Report (WCED, 1987) encouraged the view that the main threats to the environmental sustainability of development are poverty‐driven depletion of environmental…

Biodiversity, trade and international agreements

Edward B. Barbier

The global market failure problem of international biodiversity loss can be mitigated through the use of trade interventions or by the creation of new international markets and…

Public policy and technological change in Africa: Aspects of institutions and management capacity

Norman Clark

This paper explores the notion of “capacity building” from the standpoint of the technological expertise needed for sustainable development policy analysis and execution. It…

Untying the knots of international environmental agreements

Anthony Clunies Ross

Curbing (without banning) potentially environmentally‐damaging activities that have global, rather than local, effects raises challenges analogous to those faced by a community…

Economic dimensions of technological and global responses to the Kyoto protocol

Michael Grubb

This paper examines economic aspects of the Kyoto protocol on climate change, focusing on the protocol’s longer‐term impact and possible global evolution. Specifically, the…

Some reflections on project economics and environmental issues: A development economist’s perspective

John Weiss

This paper discusses briefly some of the outstanding theoretical and operational issues relating to the application of environmental economics to the appraisal of projects…