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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780199267194 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
306 |
Item number |
DAS |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Dasgupta, Partha |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Human well-being and the natural environment |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Oxford University Press |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Oxford |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2007 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
xxiv, 351 p. |
365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
Price type code |
GBP |
Price amount |
43.99 |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc. note |
Table of Contents<br/>Summary and Guide<br/>Introduction: Means and Ends<br/>I Valuing and Evaluating<br/>Prologue<br/>1:The Notion of Well-Being<br/>*1:Ordering Social States<br/>2:Why Measure Well-Being?<br/>3:Constituents and Determinants of Well-Being<br/>II Measuring Current Well-Being<br/>Prologue<br/>4:Theory<br/>5:Current Quality of Life in Poor Countries<br/>III Measuring Well-Being over Time<br/>Prologue<br/>6:Intergenerational Well-Being<br/>*6:Intergenerational Conflicts<br/>7:Economic Institutions and the Natural Environment<br/>8:Valuing Goods<br/>9:Wealth and Well-Being<br/>IV Evaluating Policies in Imperfect Economies<br/>Prologue<br/>10:Policy Reforms<br/>11:Discounting Future Consumption: How and Why<br/>12:Institutional Responses to Policy Change<br/>V Valuing Potential Lives<br/>Prologue<br/>13:Some Views<br/>14:Classical Utilitarianism and the Genesis Problem<br/>*14:Numbers and Well-Being under Classical Utilitarianism<br/>15:Actual versus Potential Lives<br/>*15:Generation-Relative Utilitarianism<br/>Appendix |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
Description<br/>In Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment, Partha Dasgupta explores ways to measure the quality of life. In developing quality-of-life indices, he pays particular attention to the natural environment, illustrating how it can be incorporated, more generally, into economic reasoning in a seamless manner. Professor Dasgupta puts the theory that he develops to use in extended commentaries on the economics of population, poverty traps, global warming, structural adjustment programmes, and free trade, particularly in relation to poor countries. The result is a treatise that goes beyond quality-of-life measures and offers a comprehensive account of the newly emergent subject of ecological economics.<br/><br/>With the publication of this new paperback edition, Professor Dasgupta has taken the opportunity to update and revise his text in a number of ways, including developments to facilitate its current use on a number of gradate courses in environmental and resource economics. The treatment of the welfare economics of imperfect economies has been developed using new findings, and the Appendix has been expanded to include applications of the theory to a number of institutions, and to develop approximate formulae for estimating the value of environmental natural resources. |
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Natural resources--Management |
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Sustainable development |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Human ecology |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Quality of life |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Environmental economics |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Environmental quality |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
Koha item type |
Book |