Natalia Mirovitskaya is Visiting Research Fellow of Public Policy at Duke University. She is the author of Biological Resources of the Ocean: International Aspects and numerous other publications on international environmental policy and resource management.William L. Ascher is Vice President, Dean of the Faculty, and Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College in California. His numerous books include Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries, coauthored with Robert Healy and also published by Duke University Press. Mirovitskaya and Ascher are also coauthors of The Caspian Sea: A Quest for Environmental Security.

• Introduction xxixContributors xxxiii1. Basic Concepts of Development and Environment 2. Sustainability 3. Main Factors Behind Development and Environmental Change 4. International Political Economy of Environment and Development 5. Decision Making 6. Major Problems of Environmental Degradation and Development References 353Index 371

“This useful and unusual resource brings together a large number of interrelating concepts on an important and contentious issue.”-Lynton K. Caldwell, author of International Environmental Policy: From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century “This useful reference work provides grounding for two essential tasks: understanding the needs of the present, and engaging with the compromises implicit in any attempt to assure that future generations will be able to meet their own needs.”-Kai N. Lee, Williams College

Natalia Mirovitskaya is Visiting Research Fellow of Public Policy at Duke University. She is the author of Biological Resources of the Ocean: International Aspects and numerous other publications on international environmental policy and resource management.William L. Ascher is Vice President, Dean of the Faculty, and Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College in California. His numerous books include Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries, coauthored with Robert Healy and also published by Duke University Press. Mirovitskaya and Ascher are also coauthors of The Caspian Sea: A Quest for Environmental Security.

• Introduction xxixContributors xxxiii1. Basic Concepts of Development and Environment 2. Sustainability 3. Main Factors Behind Development and Environmental Change 4. International Political Economy of Environment and Development 5. Decision Making 6. Major Problems of Environmental Degradation and Development References 353Index 371

“This useful and unusual resource brings together a large number of interrelating concepts on an important and contentious issue.”-Lynton K. Caldwell, author of International Environmental Policy: From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century “This useful reference work provides grounding for two essential tasks: understanding the needs of the present, and engaging with the compromises implicit in any attempt to assure that future generations will be able to meet their own needs.”-Kai N. Lee, Williams College

Natalia Mirovitskaya is Visiting Research Fellow of Public Policy at Duke University. She is the author of Biological Resources of the Ocean: International Aspects and numerous other publications on international environmental policy and resource management.William L. Ascher is Vice President, Dean of the Faculty, and Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College in California. His numerous books include Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries, coauthored with Robert Healy and also published by Duke University Press. Mirovitskaya and Ascher are also coauthors of The Caspian Sea: A Quest for Environmental Security.

• Introduction xxixContributors xxxiii1. Basic Concepts of Development and Environment 2. Sustainability 3. Main Factors Behind Development and Environmental Change 4. International Political Economy of Environment and Development 5. Decision Making 6. Major Problems of Environmental Degradation and Development References 353Index 371

“This useful and unusual resource brings together a large number of interrelating concepts on an important and contentious issue.”-Lynton K. Caldwell, author of International Environmental Policy: From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century “This useful reference work provides grounding for two essential tasks: understanding the needs of the present, and engaging with the compromises implicit in any attempt to assure that future generations will be able to meet their own needs.”-Kai N. Lee, Williams College