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245 0 4 _aThe Economics of project appraisal and the environment /
_cedited by John Weiss.
260 _aAldershot :
_bE. Elgar,
_cc1994.
300 _aix, 205 p. :
_bill., map ;
_c25 cm.
440 0 _aNew horizons in environmental economics
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _a 1. Introduction: development projects and the environment / John Weiss 2. Economic valuation of environmental impacts / Edward Barbier 3. Natural environments and the social rate of discount / Anil Markandya and David Pearce 4. Deforestation and economic criteria / Colin Price 5. Plantation appraisal under the threat of illicit felling / Colin Price and S.N. Trivedi 6. Deforesting the Amazon: towards an economic solution / David Pearce 7. The economic value of non-market benefits of tropical forests: carbon storage / Katrina Brown and David Pearce 8. The relevance of global climatic effects to project appraisal / J.T. Winpenny 9. Environmental effects and the Carajas iron-ore project, Brazil / Alfredo Lopes da Silva Neto 10. Fuzzy multigroup conflict resolution for environmental management / G. Munda, P. Nijkamp and P. Rietveld 11. Sustainable development and project appraisal / Behrooz Morvaridi
520 _aThere is an increasing awareness that new development projects can have a significant impact, positive and negative, on the environment with repercussions at both national and international levels. The Economics of Project Appraisal and the Environment illustrates the current state of knowledge on the problem of incorporating environmental effects into practical project appraisal
546 _aeng
650 0 _aEconomic development projects
650 0 _aEconomic development projects
700 1 _aWeiss, John,
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