The Economics of Environment and Development

Selected Essays

Edward B. Barbier, Professor of Economics, Senior Scholar, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, US

The Economics of Environment and Development is a carefully edited selection of Edward Barbier''s most influential papers on the role of environmental economics in economic development.

‘Many of the chapters in this book should prove very useful in teaching classes on environmental and natural resource economics, on sustainable development and on development and the environment. . . the book is an extremely good read. . .’
– Nick Hanley, Land Use Policy

‘. . . Barbier provides us with an interesting insight into the emerging role of the environment . . . There is little doubt that Barbier’s work, neatly summarised in this book, has made an important contribution to the debate on how the environment can be incorporated into economics.’
——卡罗琳·沙利文,环境Values

‘I consider it to be a great privilege to review a collection of essays of someone like Ed Barbier. . . . This book comprising Ed’s 22 essays is invaluable in that it presents the most influential papers on the interaction of environmental economics and economic development.’
– Vivek K. Varma, Environmental Politics