Economics for managing our depleting resources and biodiversity is imperative part of development, more so since sustainable development has been placed on the prime platform for future sustenance of the planet. Sustainable development is at the heart of policy initiatives due to intensive...

Increasing the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix requires enormous investments in low-carbon energy infrastructure in developing countries. Energy aid, being an important funding channel, seems to play a pivotal role in augmenting the shift towards cleaner energy sources. This...

Vulnerability to scarcity or to reduction of natural capital depends on defensive substitution possibilities that, in turn, are affected by the availability of other productive factors. However, in several developing countries asset distribution tends to be highly skewed. Taking into ac- count...

While debates on sustainable development have traditionally pitted the developing countries of the global South against the industrialized countries of the North, this essay addresses possible new elements in the so-called North-South debate, mainly by examining it from the perspective of a...

A model of resource exploitation when private ownership requires costly enforcement is developed. Enforcement costs are endogenized as the outcome of a game between a resource owner and illegal extractors. I find that two instruments are used to deter illegal extraction: policing efforts and...

The poverty may be a complicated and stereotypical drawback at both national and international levels. There are no bilaterally symmetrical measures known which would be suitable for worldwide application. However, every country takes specific initiatives to tackle poverty and international...

The article is on the technological dimension of exclusion, which concerns the states underprivileged in transnational economic processes, phenomenon, which is of crucial importance for development and growth. The article deals with the consequences of unbridled economic growth, unequal access...

The concept of sustainable development has been formulated at a time when modern humanity gained the technological means to carry out almost any transformation of the world around us, but, at the same time also got lost in the goals that their actions should serve. This is connected with the...

The present paper puts an emphasis on the current energy market scenario and different types of barriers associated with the advancement of solar energy in a developing countries like India. Solar energy, best suited for urban environment, can be housed in a limited space and is characterized as...

A key goal of renewable resource managers in developing countries is to take actions to ensure that the resource being managed stays away from irreversible or crisis states in which it provides neither consumptive nor non-consumptive services to humans. However, despite a manager's best efforts,...