The Environment and Economic Development in South Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Changing Views and Perspectives on the Environment-Development Nexus

   • Mohammad Alauddin, Clement Allan Tisdell

   Pages 1-11

3. The Environment, Biodiversity and Development in South Asia

   • Mohammad Alauddin, Clement Allan Tisdell

   Pages 12-33

4. Natural Resources: Water and Land-use in Bangladesh

   • Mohammad Alauddin, Clement Allan Tisdell

   Pages 34-54

5. Rural Employment, Technological Change and the Environment

   • Mohammad Alauddin, Clement Allan Tisdell

   Pages 55-79

6. Village Perspectives on Technology, Employment and the Environment

   • Mohammad Alauddin, Clement Allan Tisdell

   Pages 80-97

7. Property Rights, Governance and the Environment

   • Mohammad Alauddin, Clement Allan Tisdell

   Pages 98-112

8. Impact on the Rural Poor of Changing Rural Environments and Technologies: Evidence from India and Bangladesh

   • Mohammad Alauddin, Clement Allan Tisdell

   Pages 113-125

9. Agricultural Sustainability in Marginal Areas: Principles, Policies and Examples

   • Mohammad Alauddin, Clement Allan Tisdell

   Pages 126-145

10. Sustainability of Rice-shrimp Farming Systems: Environmental and Distributional Conflicts

    • Mohammad Alauddin, Clement Allan Tisdell

    Pages 146-168

11. Energy Resources in Bangladesh: Issues and Options

    • Mohammad Alauddin, Clement Allan Tisdell

    Pages 169-185

12. Sectoral Change, Urbanisation and South Asia’s Environment in a Global Context

    • Mohammad Alauddin, Clement Allan Tisdell

    Pages 186-199

13. Back Matter

    Pages 200-219

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The major challenges facing South Asia to achieve sustainable development are investigated, using case studies and applying new points of view in economic thought about the connection between development and the environment. After reviewing economic perspectives on development and the environment and South Asia's situation, particular issues such as depletion of natural resources and land degradation, the environmental impacts and consequences of extending markets, of technological change and property rights are examined. Environmental change and employment, income distribution and poverty, population growth and urbanisation are considered.

• biodiversity
• development
• Economic Development
• sustainability
• sustainable development

• The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

  Mohammad Alauddin, Clement Allan Tisdell

MOHAMMAD ALAUDDIN is Senior Lecturer in Economics at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He is a graduate of Rajshahi University, Bangladesh, The University of Adelaide, and The University of Newcastle (Australia). He has taught at Rajshahi University and The University of Melbourne. He has published widely on development and environmental issues in international journals including Applied Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, World Development. He co-authored (with C.A. Tisdell) The Green Revolution and Economic Development: The Process and Its Impact in Bangladesh.

CLEMENT ALLAN TISDELL is Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Economics at The University of Queensland, Australia. His previous positions include Professor of Economics at the University of Newcastle, NSW and Reader in Economics at The Australian National University. He has held visiting positions at many overseas institutions and has published widely on environmental economics and economic development. Previous books published by Macmillan include The Green Revolution and Economic Development (co-authored with Mohammad Alauddin) and Economic Development in the Context of China, also published in Chinese by the China Development Press, Beijing. He is a life member of the Calcutta-based International Institute of Development Studies and an Honorary Professor of the People's University of China. He has given lectures at Rajshahi University and Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, and in India.

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