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020			_a9780199267194
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100			_aDasgupta, Partha _92277
245			_aHuman well-being and the natural environment
260			_bOxford University Press _aOxford _c2007
300			_axxiv, 351 p.
365			_aGBP _b43.99
504			_aTable of Contents Summary and Guide Introduction: Means and Ends I Valuing and Evaluating Prologue 1:The Notion of Well-Being *1:Ordering Social States 2:Why Measure Well-Being? 3:Constituents and Determinants of Well-Being II Measuring Current Well-Being Prologue 4:Theory 5:Current Quality of Life in Poor Countries III Measuring Well-Being over Time Prologue 6:Intergenerational Well-Being *6:Intergenerational Conflicts 7:Economic Institutions and the Natural Environment 8:Valuing Goods 9:Wealth and Well-Being IV Evaluating Policies in Imperfect Economies Prologue 10:Policy Reforms 11:Discounting Future Consumption: How and Why 12:Institutional Responses to Policy Change V Valuing Potential Lives Prologue 13:Some Views 14:Classical Utilitarianism and the Genesis Problem *14:Numbers and Well-Being under Classical Utilitarianism 15:Actual versus Potential Lives *15:Generation-Relative Utilitarianism Appendix
520			_aDescription 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. 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.
650			_aNatural resources--Management _91576
650			_aSustainable development _91438
650			_aHuman ecology _92808
650			_aQuality of life _92138
650			_aEnvironmental economics _91575
650			_aEnvironmental quality _92809
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