This book provides a rigorous but very readable introduction to economics theory before delving into the relationship between economic growth and the primary natural resource and environmental problems associated with this growth, namely scarcity and environmental degradation.

The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. Using a newly formulated operational definition of slums, it presents estimates of the number of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors at all level, from local to global, that underlie the formation of slums as well as their social, spatial and economic characteristics and dynamics. It goes on to evaluate the principal policy responses to the slum challenge of the last few decades.

This international compendium of national demographic statistics is designed to supply basic statistical data on 230 countries or areas for such users as demographers, economists, public-health workers and sociologists.

Cost–Benefit Analysis (CBA) is one of the most useful tools of applied economics for the social appraisal of public projects and government policies. Nick Hanley and Edward Barbier show how CBA can be applied to environmental policy choice and environmental resource management.

Over the past two decades, China has become an economic powerhouse. However, as the world’s largest producer of CO2 emissions, the scale and seriousness of China’s environmental problems are clearly evident. This pioneering book provides an economic analysis of the significant environmental and energy problems facing China in the 21st century.

Originally the WBCSD's quarterly newsletter, Sustain is now our flagship magazine. Each issue
highlights specific sustainability topics, from China's sustainable development prospects, to water issues, and from energy and climate to ecosystems, and includes member company case stories surrounding the topics.

The United Nations Environment Programme's flagship magazine for environmentally sustainable development.

Communication pour le Développement doit à la fois permettre un meilleur dialogue et une participation et un partage des connaissances et de l'information entre les peuples et les institutions. La 9éme Table ronde (Rome, septembre 2004), s'est intéressée à la "Communication et au développement durable" en abordant les trois principales thématiques suivantes, liées entre elles mais aussi centrales pour cette problématique: la communication dans la recherche, la vulgarisation et l'éducation; la communication pour la gestion des ressources naturelles; et la communication pour les groupes isolés et marginalisés.

La comunicación para el Desarrollo permite el diálogo, la participación y el intercambio de conocimiento e informaciones entre personas e instituciones. La Novena Mesa Redonda de la ONU (Roma, Septiembre del 2004), se centró en "La Comunicación para el Desarrollo Sostenible" y abordó tres áreas temáticas interrelacionadas que son fundamentales para este tema: Comunicación para la Investigación, Extensión y Educación; Comunicación para la Gestión de los Recursos Naturales; y Comunicación para Grupos Aislados y Marginados.

The United Nations Environment Programme's flagship magazine for environmentally sustainable development.

The "State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2006" focuses on the question of why the development and food security needs of developing countries need to be better reflected in the design and implementation of new agreements on further liberalization of international agricultural markets, and on the mechanisms under discussion to achieve this goal. In the WTO Doha Development Round, how to safeguard the interests of enveloping countries, especially the lower-income countries, has proved to be highly topical but is also problematic: the issues and arguments are complex and sometimes controversial.

 Agricultural trade has been and continues to be a major factor determining food security outcomes in Caribbean countries. In these small open economies, exports are essential to income-earning opportunities, while imports provide a large component of the food supply. This book examines various dimensions of trade policy and related issues of relevance to the countries in the region and presents policy instruments to address trade and food security and rural development linkages.