Economic Progress and the Environment

"Doug Southgate's book is an elegant and forceful testimony to the role that bad economic management plays in destroying natural resources and, with them, the chance of sustainable development....Out of causal analyses come striking policy prescriptions for sustainable development....Doug Southgate's book cuts through the cherished but superficial analyses of some environmentalists, and persuades us that sustainable development is possible." --David Pearce, Director of CSERGE, University College, London "Economic Progress and the Environment is the best study of renewable resource policy issues in [Ecuador] that I have seen. It makes clear that conservation depends on economic development and vice versa and also that environmentally sustainable economic progress depends on fundamental public policy reform." --Jorge Barba Gonzalez, Executive Director, INEFAN "In 130 elegant pages [Southgate and Whitaker] have produced one of the most persuasive contributions of environmental economics to development policy to appear in recent years . . . . The exposition is largely accessible to non-specialists. The book is highly recommended to all students of development, applied environmental economists, and policy-makers."--Development Policy Review "A valuable contribution to the information available about environmental conflicts and policy issues and processes in Latin America."--Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies