Natural Resources and Economic Development Barbier Hardback 9781107179264 2e

Natural Resources and Economic Development\n\nThe second edition of this landmark book explores how natural resources contribute to development in poor economies.\n\nEdward B. Barbier (Author)\n\n9781107179264, Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 19 September 2019\n\n458 pages\n23.5 x 15.7 x 2.7 cm, 0.76 kg\n\nWhy is natural resource exploitation not yielding greater benefits for the poor economies? In this second edition of his landmark book, Barbier explores this paradox in three parts. Part I gives a historical review of resource use and development, examining current theories that explain the under-performance of today's resource-abundant economies, and proposing a hypothesis of frontier expansion as an alternative explanation. Part II develops models to analyse the key economic factors underlying land expansion and water use in developing countries. Part III explores further the structural pattern of resource dependency, rural poverty and resource degradation withi]