UID:
almahu_9948026095302882
Format:
1 online resource (791 p.)
ISBN:
1-281-00522-3
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9786611005221
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0-08-049221-5
Content:
Until recently, the phenomenal economic development of the Asian tigers, Chile, and Malaysia, as well as the sustained economic growth of the United States, painted a very desirable and optimistic picture of free markets, fiscal responsibility, and, more generally, the entire dogma of neoclassical economics. As of the fall of 1998, however, the economies of many tropical countries have contracted severely, and the enthusiasm of the developing tropics for the free market and all of its ancillary policies is decidedly cooler. Have our traditional approaches to economics been failing the develop
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Front Cover; Quantifying Sustainable Development: The Future of Tropical Economies; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Section I: Introduction: The Tropics-Paradise Imperiled?; Chapter 1. The Changing Tropics; I. Introduction; II. The Industrialization of Agriculture; III. The Increasing Need for Foreign Exchange; IV. Tropical Environmental Issues and Their Economic Consequences; V. Has Development Failed?; VI. Was Conventional Economics the Wrong Tool to Guide Development?; VII. Sustainable Development, the New Silver Bullet; References
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Chapter 2. A Brief Historical and Visual Introduction to Costa RicaI. Costa Rica, Green Paradise?; II. A Historical Perspective on Costa Rica and Its Economy; III. The Effects of Foreign Aid and Loans; IV. Costa Rica in the 1990s-Radical Changes in the Country and the Economy; V. Conclusions; References; Section II: Development and Sustainability; Chapter 3. The Theories and Myths That Have Guided Development; I. The Economic Issues; II. The Lure of Sustainable Development; III. The Central Question of This Book; IV. Some Important History about the Development of Economics
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V. Biophysical EconomicsReferences; Chapter 4.Data on Sustainability in Costa Rica: Time Series Analysis of Population, Land Use, Economics, Energy, and Efficiency; I. Introduction; II. Methods; III. Results; IV. Discussion; V. Conclusions; References; Chapter 5. Land, Energy, and Agricultural Production in Costa Rica; I. Introduction; II. Assessing the Food Production Capacity of Costa Rica; III. Simulation Results; IV. What This Means for the Future; V. Conclusions; References; Section III: Adding a Spatial Dimension: Tools for Dynamic Geographical Analysis
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Chapter 6. The Derivation and Analysis of National-Level Geographical Information: A New Model for Accessibility and an Easy-to-Use Micro GIS ProgramI. Introduction; II. A Plan to Generate National-Level Data Bases; III. Our Plan to Provide a Uniform Format for Costa Rican Geographical Data; IV. Development of Mean Environmental Characteristics for Each Political Unit; V. A Free Micro GIS Program; References; Chapter 7. Geographical Modeling: The Synthesis of a GIS and Simulation Modeling; I. The Concepts behind Land Use Decision Making; II. Tools for Analysis
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III. Applying Gradient Analysis through Geographical Modeling to Costa RicaIV. Models and Policymaking; References; Section IV: Building a Geographical Database for Costa Rica; Chapter 8. Developing a Nationwide Topographical Database; I. Introduction; II. Construction of the Topographical Database; III. Generating Derivatives of the DEM; IV. Potential Uses in Sustainability Assessment; References; Chapter 9. Synthesis of Costa Rican Meteorological Information in a Geographical Context; I. Introduction; II. Methodology-An Overview
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III. Methods We Used to Compute Costa Rican Digital Climate Maps
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-318860-1
Language:
English
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