The challenges facing South Asia to achieve sustainable development are investigated in this book, using case studies and applying contemporary points of view in economic thought about the connection between development and the environment. Special attention is paid to the situation in Bangladesh. After reviewing economic perspectives on development and the environment and South Asia's situation, issues such as depletion of natural resources and land degradation, the environmental impacts and consequences of extending markets, of technological change and property rights are examined. Environmental change and employment, income distribution and poverty, population growth, and urbanization are also considered.
- ISBN10 0333640276
- ISBN13 9780333640272
- Publish Date 20 April 1998 (first published 1 January 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 248
- Language English