The availability of efficiency estimation software freely distributed via the internet and relatively easy to use recently inflated the number of corresponding applications. The resulting efficiency estimates are used without a critical assessment with respect to the literature on theoretical...

This book is a collection of Amitrajeet A Batabyal's most important papers on the environment and economic development. It begins with a comprehensive and previously unpublished introductory chapter, followed by 12 chapters on different problems such as land use for agricultural purposes,...

Key Features:Demonstrates how theoretical approaches - particularly dynamic and stochastic approaches - can yield insights into the resource and environmental problems of developing nationsAnalyzes the desirability of certain common resource use practices from an integrated ecological-economic...