...Azmat Gani Purpose This study investigates if wealth from natural resources impacts child health in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach The methodology includes testing the effect of rents from natural resources on under-five mortality rates using a multifactor health production...

...Richard Adjei Dwumfour; Elikplimi Komla Agbloyor; Joshua Yindenaba Abor Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how remittances, financial development (FD), and natural resources and their different transmission channels can be used to reduce poverty in Africa. Design/methodology...

..., and quality of life ”, World Development Report , The World Bank for Reconstruction and Development , Washington, DC . Jan‐Erik Lane can be contacted at: janekhane@googlemail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Ecology Environmental management Pollution Natural resources...

... marriage, which is the fist step towards formal recognition as a social adult (Baxter quoted in Aguilar, 1998, p. 50). Asfaw Kumssa can be contacted at: Asfaw.kumssa.uncrd@undp.org © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Conflict Poverty Natural resources Kenya Africa...

... is the ease with which natural resources may become private property. In principle, each of the three views is consistent with some legitimate process for the acquisition of private ownership rights, but there are stronger constraints on what could count as a legitimate process on either the joint‐ or several...

..., airplane) that allows individuals to move from H to F. Economic growth Environmental management Natural resources In modern societies individuals often try to alleviate their personal damages from environmental degradation by increasing their consumption of private goods. The present paper...

...Barrie Pettman; Gamini Herath Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of natural resources accounting in sustainable development. Natural resource accounting is important because the welfare of a nation measured in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) has several weaknesses...

... is founded within the body of neoclassical capital theory. It is a value principle with the necessary condition that some suitably defined value of aggregate capital – including human‐made capital and the initial endowment of natural resources – must be maintained intact over time. However, this definition...

... to the economic professional, give rise to various misunderstandings by the public. Conservation Economics Environment Ethics Monetarism Natural resources While ecologists, environmentalists and the concerned public became aware in the 1960s and 1970s that the world’s biodiversity...

... to comply with a given set of regulations. Specifically, the model accounts for moral obligation and social influence in addition to the conventional costs and revenues associated with illegal behavior. While cast in a natural resource management context, the theory developed here is applicable to a variety...

... groups then there appears to be little reason to charge tourists differing amounts for entry and use compared to the charges for New Zealanders. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Equity Natural resources New Zealand Prices Recreation A very large proportion of New Zealand’s land area...

...K.C. Roy Higher economic growth is necessary to reduce the level of poverty and improve the living standard of population. But higher economic growth requires greater use of natural resources and environment which in turn leads to their degradation and eventual decay. Increased population pressure...

..., it also destroys their future. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Agriculture Conservation Environment Forestry India Natural resources While the slash‐and‐burn technique appears to be relatively sustainable and not a major environmental danger when population densities are low...

...Brian Dollery; Joe Wallis Clem Tisdell is one of Australia’s pre‐eminent economists who has made decisive contributions in several areas of economics, perhaps most notably development economics, environmental economics and natural resource economics. Tisdell is presently Professor of Economics...

...Peter Hall Asks how hard should a small natural resource‐rich (NRR) country try to escape from a path of economic development which has been shaped by its physical resource endowments, a question relevant to Clem Tisdell’s own country, Australia and also New Zealand and Canada, among others...

... vessels. Marine information Natural resources Pacific Rim Property rights Social responsibility Sustainable development The nature of ownership of resources, that is the nature of ownership of property, can have important consequences for the conservation of resources and the economic...

...John M. Gowdy Examines the impact of humans on the Earth, and how natural resources are related to economic wellbeing. Links evolution and increases in population to natural causes. Discusses the co‐evolution of nature and society, and the unsustainable system that humans have created. Shows how...

... speak of environmental engineering as a means to attain sustainability, I also refer to utilization and conservation of natural resources. When related to nature, the term engineering expresses the idea that, with the help of professional skill, nature's value to the existence of Man can be improved...