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Environment & Sustainable Development
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Environment and Development Papers
From the CID Working Paper Series
Small Producer
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Integrating Household Structure and
Economic Circumstance in Behavioral Explanation
Marcellus Caldas, Robert Walker and Stephen Perz
CID Working Paper No. 96, October 2002.
Environment and Development Paper No. 6.
Are Greener National
Accounts Better?
Jeffrey R. Vincent. CID Working Paper no. 63, February 2001.
Environment and Development Paper No. 5.
Economic Growth and the
Environment
Theodore Panayotou. CID Working Paper no. 56, July 2000.
Environment and Development Paper No. 4.
Environmental
Sustainability and Services in Developing Global City Regions
Theodore Panayotou. CID Working Paper no. 55, July 2000.
Environment and Development Paper No. 3.
Population and Environment
Theodore Panayotou. CID Working Paper no. 54, July 2000.
Environment and Development Paper No. 2.
Globalization and
Environment
Theodore Panayotou. CID Working Paper no. 53, July 2000.
Environment and Development Paper No. 1.
HIID International Environment Program (IEP)
Environment Discussion Paper Series
Environment Reprint Series
HIID Development Discussion Paper Series
The Environment Discussion Paper Series
In the spring of 1995, the International Environment Program at the Harvard
Institute for International Development initiated the Environment Discussion
Paper Series as a mechanism for disseminating information and stimulating
discussion on topics related to HIID's environmental projects around the
world. The working papers featured in this series were produced by the many
different projects of the International Environment Program, including the
Central and Eastern Europe Environmental Economics and Policy Project, the
Newly Independent States Environmental Economics and Policy Project, and the
Asia Training Project. The following is a list of discussion and reprint
papers published in this series. CID is pleased to be able to host some of these
papers (click on the title to view the paper as a PDF):
EDP #1. Jeffrey Sachs. "Keynote Address - Economies in Transition: Some
Aspects of Environmental Policy." February 1995.
EDP #2. Darius Teter, Jeffrey R. Vincent, and Kadar Wiryanto. "Coal Mining in Indonesia: Environmental Impacts, Sustainability, and Economic Development." February 1995.
EDP #3. Anil Markandya and Abdul Shibli. "Industrial Control Policies in Asia." February 1995.
EDP #4. Scott Farrow. "The Czech Republic: Potential Cost Savings From Using Economic Instruments." March 1995.
EDP #5. Eva L. Ensmann, Ljuba Gornaja, and Bruce A. Larson. "The Pollution Policy Cocktailí in Estonia: Economic Incentives and Problems for Implementation." January 1995.
EDP #6. Scott Farrow. "Comparing Economic and Administrative Instruments: The U.S. Experience." January 1995.
EDP #7. Randall A. Bluffstone and Theodore Panayotou. "Optimal Environmental Liability Policy for Central and Eastern Europe." August 1995.
EDP #8. Jeffrey R. Vincent, Theodore Panayotou, and John Hartwick. "Resource Depletion and Sustainability in Small Open Economies." September 1995.
EDP #9. Robert N. Stavins and Tomasz Zylicz "Environmental Policy in a Transition Economy: Designing Tradable Permits for Poland." January 1995.
EDP #10. Theodore Panayotou. "Effective Financing of Environmentally Sustainable Development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia." October 1995.
EDP #11. Kathleen Segerson. "Environmental Accidents: An Economic Framework for Policy Evaluation." June 1995.
EDP #12. Rein Ahas and Bruce A. Larson. "Sustainable Market-Based Forestry and the Financial Benefits of Forest Management in Estonia: a Local Level Case Study." April 1996.
EDP #13. Robert Deacon. "Economic Aspects of Forest Policy in Lithuania." April 1996.
EDP #14. Randall Bluffstone. "What Tax is Best? The Economics of Natural Resource Taxation in Lithuania." January 1997.
EDP #15. Michael Kozeltsev and Anil Markandya. "Pollution Charges in Russia: The Experience of 1990-1995." January 1997.
EDP #16. Glen Anderson and Boguslaw Fiedor. "Environmental Charges in Poland." January 1997.
EDP #17. Marco Boscolo, Joseph Buongiorno and Theodore Panayotou. "Simulating Options for Carbon Sequestration Through Improved Management of a Lowland Tropical Rainforest." January 1997.
EDP #18. The Volgograd Health Risk Assessment Working Group. "Assessing Chronic Health Risks from Stationary Source Air Emissions in Volgograd, Russia: A Case Study in Quantitative Health Risk Assessment." May 1997.
EDP #19. Jian Xie, Jeffrey R. Vincent and Theodore Panayotou. "Computable General Equilibrium Models and the Analysis of Policy Spillovers in the Forest Sector." May 1997.
EDP #20. Scott Farrow. "The Dual Political Economy of Taxes and Tradable Permits: Applications in Central and Eastern Europe." May 1997.
EDP #21. Alexander Golub and Evgeny Gurvich. "Options for Revising the System of Pollution Charges in Russia: Results of an Aggregate Modeling Analysis."
EDP #22. Anil Markandya. "Sustainable Development and Economic Transition in Russia: What Issues? What Agenda?" July 1997.
EDP #23. Arnolds Ubelis, Valdis Seglins and Arun Malik. "An Assessment of Selected Policies for Controlling Stationary and Point Source Pollution in Latvia."
EDP #24. Alexander Golub, Elena Strukova and Bruce A. Larson. "Applying Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Risk Management in Russia: A Case Study of Air Pollution Health Risks in Volgog."
EDP #25. Bruce A. Larson and Michael Kozeltsev. "Implementation of Air Pollution Policy in Russia: A Case Study of Tula Oblast." August 1997.
EDP #26. Anil Markandya. "Employment and Environmental Protection: The Tradeoffs in an Economy in Transition."
EDP #27. Bruce A. Larson and Ekaterina Gnedenko. "Avoiding Health Risks from Drinking Water: Theory and Moscow Survey Results." October 1997.
EDP #28. Theodore R. Smith. "Kazakstan Investment Fund Considerations." November 1997.
EDP #29. Guy Robertson. "The Russian Far East Timber Sector and Its Principal Markets." November 1997.
EDP #30. Glen D. Anderson and Tomasz Zylicz. "Maximizing Leverage of Poland’s Environmental Funds: Too Generous or Too Restrictive? November 1997.
EDP #31. Theodore Panayotou. "Taking Stock of Trends in Sustainable Development Financing Since Rio." November 1997.
EDP #32. Ramji W.S. Nyirenda. "Some Economic Constraints in the Management of Forest Reserves in Malawi: A Review of Policy and Market Failures in Forest Resource Management."
EDP #33. Richard M. Auty. "Does Kazakstan Oil Wealth Help or Hinder the Transition?" December 1997.
EDP #34. Theodore E. Devlin and Alexander P. Martusevich. "Financing Environmental Investments: A Perspective for Air Pollution Abatement Applications." December 1997.
EDP #35. Georgy Fomenko, Marina Fomenko, Anil Markandya and Renat Perelat. "Natural Resource Accounting for the Oblast of Yaroslavl in the Russian Federation." December 1997.
EDP #36. Richard M. Auty. "Sustainable Mineral-Driven Development in Turkmenistan." December 1997.
EDP #37. Air Pollution Working Group. "Practical Recommendations for Improving Air Pollution Policy in Russia." January 1998.
EDP #38. Bruce A. Larson, Simon Avaliani, Alexander Golub, Sydney Rosen, Dmitry Shaposhnikov, Elena Strukova and Scott Wolff. "The Economics of Air Pollution Health Risks in Russia: A Case Study of Volgograd." January 1998.
EDP #39. Theodore Panayotou. "The Role of the Private Sector in Sustainable Infrastructure Financing." February 1998.
EDP #40. Richard Burger. "Water Legislation and Pricing in Kazakstan." February 1998.
EDP #41. Marco Boscolo, Jeffrey R. Vincent and Theodore Panayotou. "Discounting Costs and Benefits in Carbon Sequestration Projects." February 1998.
EDP #42. Clifford Zinnes, Cornel Tarhoaca and Mihaela Popovici. "The Role of Enforcement and Economic Instruments in Inducing Environmental Investment in a Transition Economy: The Water Sector in Romania." March 1998.
EDP #43. Jeffrey Vincent, Hilmar Foellmi, Elena Strukova, Ronald Overton, Steve Bulkin, Vladimir Pominov, Evgeny Zabubenin, Nina Zharikova, and Elena Svischeva. "Forest Regeneration in Khabarovsky Krai."
EDP #44. Theodore E. Devlin and Alexander P. Martusevich. "Multi-Party Financing: Mechanisms and Structures for Leveraging and Co-Financing Environmental Investment Projects in Russia."
EDP #45. Richard Burger. "Water User Associations in Kazakhstan: An Institutional Analysis." September 1998.
EDP #46. J.R. DeShazo. "Urban Environmental Services in Transition Economies: A Case Study of Iasi, Romania." September 1998.
The Environment Reprint Series
ERP #1. David Bloom. "International Public Opinion on the Environment." April 1995.
ERP #2. Cornel Tarhoaca, Clifford Zinnes. "Revenue Considerations for Establishing an Environmental Fund: The Case of Romania." April 1996.
ERP #3. Glen Anderson, Tomasz Zylicz. "The Role of Environmental Funds in Environmental Policies of Central and Eastern European Countries." April 1996.
ERP #4. International Environment Program. "Impediments to Environmental Investments in CEE and the NIS." August 1996.
ERP #5. Bruce Larson. "Environmental Policy Based on Strict Liability." August 1996.
HIID Development Discussion Papers
DDP #652. Marco Boscolo and Jeffrey R. Vincent. "Promoting Better Logging Practices in Tropical Forests: A Simulation Analysis of Alternative Regulations." September 1998. 53 pp.
DDP #643. Theodore Panayotou. "Demystifying the Environmental Kuznets Curve: Turning a Black Box into a Policy Tool." July 1998. 32 pp.
DDP #638. Marco Boscolo, Jeffrey R. Vincent, and Theodore Panayotou. "Discounting Costs and Benefits in Carbon Sequestration Projects." June 1998. 29 pp.
DDP #625. Jeffrey R. Vincent. "Theoretical Aspects of Forest Accounting." February 1998. 24 pp.
DDP #623. Bruce A. Larson. "How Does Uncertainty over Future Environmental Policy Affect Investment Decisions in Transition Economies?" February 1998. 41 pp.
DDP #619. Bruce A. Larson and Ekaterina Gnedenko. "Avoiding Health Risks from Drinking Water: Theory and Moscow Study Results." January 1998. 18 pp.
DDP #614. Jeffrey Vincent and Beatriz Castaneda. "Economic Depreciation of Natural Resources in Asia and Implications for Net Savings and Long-Run Consumption." December 1997. 30 pp.
DDP #610. Randall Bluffstone. "Are the Costs of Pollution Abatement Lower in Central and Eastern Europe? Evidence from Lithuania." November 1997. 18 pp.
DDP #604. Randall A. Bluffstone. "Reducing Degradation of Forests in Poor Countries when Permanent Solutions Elude Us: What Instruments Do We Really Have?" September 1997. 26 pp.
DDP #585. Jeffrey R. Vincent. "Economic Depreciation of Timber Resources: Direct and Indirect Estimation Methods." June 1997. 12 pp.
DDP #574. Jeffrey R. Vincent, Theodore Panayotou, and John M. Hartwick. "Resource Depletion and Sustainability in Small Open Economies." March 1997. 25 pp.
DDP #571. Randall A. Bluffstone and Theodore Panayotou. "Optimal Environmental Liability Policy for Central and Eastern Europe." February 1997. 20 pp.
DDP #567. Jeffrey R. Vincent and Theodore Panayotou. "Consumption and Sustainable Development." January 1997. 11 pp.
DDP #542. Jeffrey R. Vincent. "Resource Depletion and Economic Sustainability in Malaysia." July 1996. 37 pp.
DDP #540. Ricardo Godoy, Jeffrey R. Franks, David Wilkie, Mario Alvarado, George Gray-Molina, Raul Roca, Jairo Escóbar, and Marian Cardenas. "The Effects of Economic Development on Neotropical Deforestation: Household and Village Evidence From Amerindians in Bolivia." May 1996. 41 pp.
DDP #539. Ricardo Godoy, Jeffrey R. Franks, and Mario Alvarado Claudio. "Adoption of Modern Agricultural Technologies by Lowland Amerindians in Bolivia: The Role of Households, Villages, Ethnicity, and Markets." May 1996. 28 pp.
DDP #462. Clifford F. Zinnes. "Causes and Effects of Exchange Rate Misalignment in Zambia." June 1993. 26 pp.
DDP #460. Ricardo Godoy, Mario de Franco, and Ruben G. Echeverria. "A Brief History of Agricultural Research in Bolivia: Potatoes, Maize, Soybeans, and Wheat Compared." July 1993. 21 pp.
DDP #454. Theodore Panayotou and Clifford F. Zinnes. "Incentive Structure and Regulation Dynamics in Industrial Ecology." May 1993. 21 pp.
DDP #443. Theodore Panayotou. "Conservation of Biodiversity and Economic Development: The Concept of Transferable Development Rights." April 1993. 34 pp. [Note: This paper has been reprinted in Biodiversity Conservation, edited by C. A. Perrings, K. G. Mäler, et al. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995, and is no longer available as a DDP.
DDP #423. Malcolm F. McPherson and Clifford F. Zinnes. "Institutional Weakness, Social Norms and Economic Retrogression." May 1992. 24 pp.
DDP #421. Jeffrey R. Vincent and Clark S. Binkley. "Multiple-Use Forestry: A Fallacy of Composition." May 1992. 30 pp.
DDP #420. Jeffrey R. Vincent and Merel Newmark. "Deforestation and Economic Growth When Food is Nontradeable." May 1992. 78 pp.
DDP #416. Theodore Panayotou. "Protecting Tropical Forests." May 1992. 32 pp.
DDP #415. Theodore Panayotou. "The Climate Change Negotiations from the Perspective of Newly Industrializing Countries: The Case of Thailand." May 1992. 24 pp.
DDP #402. Ricardo Godoy and Jeremy Hockenstein. "Agricultural Research Bias in Nicaragua: The Case of Beans." September 1991. 32 pp. [Note: This paper has been reprinted with new title "The Political Economy of Agricultural Research: The Case of Beans" in World Development 20, No. 11 (November 1991): 1685-1696, and is no longer available as a DDP.]
DDP #396. Jeffrey R. Vincent and Yusuf Hadi. "Deforestation and Agriculture Expansion in Peninsular Malaysia." September 1991. 64 pp.
DDP #389. Jeffrey R. Vincent and Clark S. Binkley. "Forest-Based Industrialization: A Dynamic Perspective." August 1991. [Note: This paper has been reprinted in Managing the World's Forests, edited by Sharma (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company for the World Bank, 1992), and is no longer available as a DDP.]
DDP #372. Mario de Franco and Ricardo Godoy. "The Impact of High Inflation on Bolivian Agriculture (and Vice Versa)." April 1991. 48 pp.
DDP #359. Clifford F. Zinnes. "The Simple Analytics of Immigration Policy Formation." September 1990. 24 pp.
DDP #335. A CAER Project Report. Theodore Panayotou, with Mona Yacoubian, and Madeline Hirschland. "The Economics of Environmental Degradation: Problems, Causes and Responses." April 1990. 139 pp. Economic Policy Series
DDP #323. Clifford F. Zinnes. "The Mechanics of Immigration under Supply Hysteresis." December 1989. 25 pp.
DDP #287. Theodore Panayotou. "A Translog Variable Cost Function: Theoretical Properties and Empirical Testing with an Application to Copper Mining in Zambia." March 1989. 49 pp.
DDP #286. Theodore Panayotou. "Modeling Optimal Resource Depletion in Developing Countries: A Joint Investment-Extraction Decision." March 1989. 45 pp.
DDP #284. Theodore Panayotou and Somthawin Sungsuwan. "An Econometric Study of the Causes of Tropical Deforestation: The Case of Northeast Thailand." March 1989. [Note: This paper has been reprinted in The Causes of Tropical Deforestation, edited by Katrina Brown and David W. Pearce (London, England: University College London Press Limited, 1994), and is no longer available as a DDP.]
DDP #282. Theodore Panayotou. "Conditions for Fisheries Development in the Third World." March 1989. 61 pp.
DDP #279. Theodore Panayotou. "Natural Resource Management: Strategies for Sustainable Asian Agriculture in the 1990s." January 1989. 50 pp.
DDP #259. Theodore Panayotou. "Economics, Environment and Development." December 1987. 29 pp.
DDP #251. Theodore Panayotou. "Food Price Policy in Thailand." November 1987. 72 pp. Agriculture and Food Policy Series.
DDP #220. Bruce M. S. Campbell and Ricardo A. Godoy. "Commonfield Agriculture: The Andes and Medieval England Compared." January 1986. 47 pp.
DDP #207. Ricardo A. Godoy. "Production Strategies of Bolivian Miners: Methodological and Empirical Considerations." July 1985. 20 pp.
DDP #206. Ricardo A. Godoy. "State Owned Enterprises: A Review of Recent World Bank and IMF Literature." July 1985. 18 pp.
DDP #189. Ricardo A. Godoy. "Entrepreneurs, Mines, and Peasants: Constraints and Choice in Bolivian Mining Ventures." February 1985. 54 pp.
DDP #173. Theodore Panayotou. "Food Policy Analysis in a Food Surplus Country: The Case of Thailand." July 1984. 42 pp.
Environment for Growth in Central America: Environmental Management for Sustainability and Competitiveness
Edited by Theodore
Panayotou
Published by the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
(2001)
Developing countries around the world face the dual challenge of speeding up economic growth and
slowing down environmental degradation, two objectives that are perceived to
be in direct conflict. The chapters in this volume demonstrate for Central
America how economic and environmental policies can be coordinated and
integrated to advance both sustainability and competitiveness in the region.
Using comprehensive surveys, statistical analysis and micro and macro
modeling, the authors demonstrate that Central America’s competitive future
and development potential are inextricably linked to its natural
environment. This is shown to be true not only in the negative sense of
minimizing the damage to the natural resource base and mitigating the impact
of natural disasters, but also in the positive sense of making the region
more attractive to foreign investors, aligning the agricultural and tourist
sectors with more lucrative markets, and exploiting the emerging markets in
environmental services and “green” trade.
The studies on deforestation recommend policies to raise the financial value
of the standing forests more in line with its true economic value through
ecotourism and through the pricing and marketing of local and global
environmental services. The studies on agriculture recommend protection of
property rights, control of agricultural externalities and shift of
resources from traditional to organic crops for export, and competition on
costs rather than price. The studies on tourism advocate a better matching
between demand and supply, greater complementarity between on-site services
and infrastructure, and congestion pricing and the development and marketing
of a regional tourist product. Tapping the emerging international markets
for environmental services, whether for carbon sequestration or
biodiversity, holds great potential for Central America, a region of special
ecological significance for the entire American continent. The region can
extract advantageous trade terms in hemispheric trade negotiations by
utilizing its “environmental card”, i.e. its capacity to deliver
environmental goods and services in the form of biodiversity conservation,
carbon sequestration and sustainable tourism. In this regard, tightening
environmental regulations in Central America is shown not to discourage
investment but to help maintain competitiveness in the agricultural and
tourist sectors.
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