Partha Dasgupta
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198288350
- eISBN:
- 9780191596094
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198288352.003.0013
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
The main part of this chapter discusses poverty in relation to the environmental resource base. It has ten sections: (1) the resource basis of rural production; (2) the characteristics of ...
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The main part of this chapter discusses poverty in relation to the environmental resource base. It has ten sections: (1) the resource basis of rural production; (2) the characteristics of environmental resources, which are here treated as renewable natural resources; (3) needs, stress, and carrying capacity: land and water; (4) environmental shadow prices, project evaluation, and net national product (NNP); (5) markets and their failure: unidirectional and reciprocal externalities; (6) property rights on land; (7) public failure and the erosion of local commons; and (8) work allocation among women and children and the desirable locus of environmental decisions. An extra and separate section (designated Chapter *10) gives theoretical presentations on four aspects of the net national product in a dynamic economy: (1) the economics of optimal control; (2) NNP in a deterministic environment; (3) the current‐value Hamiltonian as a measure of sustainable well‐being (sustainable development); and (4) future uncertainty.Less
The main part of this chapter discusses poverty in relation to the environmental resource base. It has ten sections: (1) the resource basis of rural production; (2) the characteristics of environmental resources, which are here treated as renewable natural resources; (3) needs, stress, and carrying capacity: land and water; (4) environmental shadow prices, project evaluation, and net national product (NNP); (5) markets and their failure: unidirectional and reciprocal externalities; (6) property rights on land; (7) public failure and the erosion of local commons; and (8) work allocation among women and children and the desirable locus of environmental decisions. An extra and separate section (designated Chapter *10) gives theoretical presentations on four aspects of the net national product in a dynamic economy: (1) the economics of optimal control; (2) NNP in a deterministic environment; (3) the current‐value Hamiltonian as a measure of sustainable well‐being (sustainable development); and (4) future uncertainty.
James A. Mirrlees
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198295211
- eISBN:
- 9780191685095
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198295211.003.0026
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter discusses ‘pure theory’ analysis, so-called because it mostly ignores many important features of underdeveloped countries in order to concentrate on one relationship. The discussion also ...
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This chapter discusses ‘pure theory’ analysis, so-called because it mostly ignores many important features of underdeveloped countries in order to concentrate on one relationship. The discussion also explores implications for the shadow pricing of labour, both in urban and rural production.Less
This chapter discusses ‘pure theory’ analysis, so-called because it mostly ignores many important features of underdeveloped countries in order to concentrate on one relationship. The discussion also explores implications for the shadow pricing of labour, both in urban and rural production.
Partha Dasgupta
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198288350
- eISBN:
- 9780191596094
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198288352.003.0014
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
The main part of this chapter discusses poverty in relation to the environmental resource base. It has ten sections; (1) the resource basis of rural production; (2) the characteristics of ...
More
The main part of this chapter discusses poverty in relation to the environmental resource base. It has ten sections; (1) the resource basis of rural production; (2) the characteristics of environmental resources, which are here treated as renewable natural resources; (3) needs, stress, and carrying capacity: land and water; (4) environmental shadow prices, project evaluation, and net national product (NNP); (5) markets and their failure: unidirectional and reciprocal externalities; (6) property rights on land; (7) public failure and the erosion of local commons; and (8) work allocation among women and children and the desirable locus of environmental decisions. An extra and separate section (designated Chapter *10) gives theoretical presentations on four aspects of the net national product in a dynamic economy: (1) the economics of optimal control; (2) NNP in a deterministic environment; (3) the current‐value Hamiltonian as a measure of sustainable well‐being (sustainable development); and (4) future uncertainty.Less
The main part of this chapter discusses poverty in relation to the environmental resource base. It has ten sections; (1) the resource basis of rural production; (2) the characteristics of environmental resources, which are here treated as renewable natural resources; (3) needs, stress, and carrying capacity: land and water; (4) environmental shadow prices, project evaluation, and net national product (NNP); (5) markets and their failure: unidirectional and reciprocal externalities; (6) property rights on land; (7) public failure and the erosion of local commons; and (8) work allocation among women and children and the desirable locus of environmental decisions. An extra and separate section (designated Chapter *10) gives theoretical presentations on four aspects of the net national product in a dynamic economy: (1) the economics of optimal control; (2) NNP in a deterministic environment; (3) the current‐value Hamiltonian as a measure of sustainable well‐being (sustainable development); and (4) future uncertainty.
David Igler
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520226586
- eISBN:
- 9780520938939
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520226586.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter begins by explaining how Charles Lux was introduced to San Francisco city's elite network during a real estate deal. It then notes that building upon the initial land purchases of Lux, ...
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This chapter begins by explaining how Charles Lux was introduced to San Francisco city's elite network during a real estate deal. It then notes that building upon the initial land purchases of Lux, Miller and Lux's rapid expansion during the late 1850s and the 1860s intersected with two crucial developments in the Far West. The chapter illuminates that San Francisco offered an attractive package of goods to the resourceful and well-connected entrepreneur: venture capital, natural resources, steady population growth, skilled labor, and until the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, a two-thousand-mile buffer against eastern markets. It explains that Miller and Lux developed a highly strategic sense of landownership, nurtured a diverse team of agents, and connected urban markets with rural production. The chapter highlights that the first stage in their evolution from storefront butchers to industrial cowboys therefore involved a systematic approach to city markets and western lands.Less
This chapter begins by explaining how Charles Lux was introduced to San Francisco city's elite network during a real estate deal. It then notes that building upon the initial land purchases of Lux, Miller and Lux's rapid expansion during the late 1850s and the 1860s intersected with two crucial developments in the Far West. The chapter illuminates that San Francisco offered an attractive package of goods to the resourceful and well-connected entrepreneur: venture capital, natural resources, steady population growth, skilled labor, and until the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, a two-thousand-mile buffer against eastern markets. It explains that Miller and Lux developed a highly strategic sense of landownership, nurtured a diverse team of agents, and connected urban markets with rural production. The chapter highlights that the first stage in their evolution from storefront butchers to industrial cowboys therefore involved a systematic approach to city markets and western lands.
Robin R. Sears and Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226322667
- eISBN:
- 9780226024134
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226024134.003.0031
- Subject:
- Biology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology
Tablillas, small-dimension lumber, are sweeping the timber markets in Peru from informal trade in rural villages to major housing suppliers in Lima. This expanding market for lumber from fast-growing ...
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Tablillas, small-dimension lumber, are sweeping the timber markets in Peru from informal trade in rural villages to major housing suppliers in Lima. This expanding market for lumber from fast-growing timber is reshaping the productive landscape in the Amazon region by inspiring a system of timber production quite distinct ecologically, socially, and economically from the dominant practice of selective logging. This paper introduces the species and production systems that feed this emerging and expanding market, and explores the social networks that facilitate the processing and marketing of tablillas, presenting an economic model that describes the system from the point of view of the rural producer. Finally, the paper discusses regulatory changes that would allow rural farmers to participate more directly, legally and sustainably in the tablilla boom.Less
Tablillas, small-dimension lumber, are sweeping the timber markets in Peru from informal trade in rural villages to major housing suppliers in Lima. This expanding market for lumber from fast-growing timber is reshaping the productive landscape in the Amazon region by inspiring a system of timber production quite distinct ecologically, socially, and economically from the dominant practice of selective logging. This paper introduces the species and production systems that feed this emerging and expanding market, and explores the social networks that facilitate the processing and marketing of tablillas, presenting an economic model that describes the system from the point of view of the rural producer. Finally, the paper discusses regulatory changes that would allow rural farmers to participate more directly, legally and sustainably in the tablilla boom.
