Natural resources and economic development /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Natural resources and developing countries: an overview
- 2. Natural resource-based economic development in history
- 3. Does natural resource dependence hinder economic development?
- 4. Frontier expansion and economic development
- 5. Explaining land use change in developing countries
- 6. The economics of land conversion
- 7. Does water availability constrain economic development?
- 8. Rural poverty and resource degradation
- 9. Can frontier-based development be successful?
- 10. Policies for sustainable resource-based development in poor economies.