Subject(s): Environment and development : Environmental economics-- growth,and environmental impact-- resource degradation-- offering incentives for sustainable development -- Concept of sustainable development--environmental capital-- economic implications discount rate-- measuring sustainable development,environmental accounting and indicators-- evaluating environmental damage and benefit -- Resource degradation- causes and policy responses : Population-- resources and environment-- policy failure- pricing below private costs-- market failure-social pricing distortions-- planning failure-socialist planning and environment-- property rights failure and renewable resources-- poverty-- income distribution and environment -- International environmental issues : World markets and natural resources degradation,trade and environment-- ivory trade-- hardwood trade-- cassava trade-- hamburger connection agriculture protection-- free trade, GATT and environment-- trade restrictions-- economic policy to manage environment -- Transforntier environmental issues : Acid rain-- mediterranean basin-- Himalayas-- international transfer issue-- international conservation financing-- global environmental facility-- debt for nature swaps-- managing global resources-- greenhouse effects-- ozone layer-- Antarctica, world's biodiversity