1. Summary -- 2. Introduction -- 2.1 Background -- 2.2 Sustainable Development -- 2.3 Disposition and Delimitations -- 3. Distortions in the Economic System and the Need for Economic Analysis -- 3.1 The “Bench-mark” Economy -- 3.2 Market Failures -- 3.3 Policy Failures -- 3.4 Summary -- 4....

This book is the second, revised, edition of a text based on a report commissioned by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). The main purposes of this book are: to discuss the causes of environmental degradation from an economic perspective; to provide a conceptual framework for the...