chapter eighteen
POPULATION, DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
learning objectivesAfter reading this chapter you will be familiar with the following: | • the common elements of the economics, population and environmental problems of developing countries; |
| • the nature of the population problems of developing nations, both historically and relative to the developed nations; |
| • the theory of the demographic transition and its implication for population control; |
| • the microeconomic theory of human fertility and its implications for population control through economic incentives; |
| • the interrelationships of economic development, population, poverty and environmental degradation in the developing world; |
| • the vicious cycle of poverty in the developing world; |
| • why poverty may not be alleviated through the traditional model of development that stresses capital accumulation or engaging in free trade with the industrial countries; |
| • how economic development projects may actually lead to environmental degradation, which in turn has an adverse effect on productivity and hence income; |
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Publication information:
Book title: Principles of Environmental Economics:Economics, Ecology and Public Policy.
Contributors: Ahmed M. Hussen - Author.
Publisher: Routledge.
Place of publication: London.
Publication year: 2000.
Page number: 397.
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