Natural Resources and Economic Development (Paperback, 2 Revised edition)

Introduction; Part I. Overview: 1. Natural resources and developing countries: an overview; 2. Natural resource-based economic development in history; 3. Does natural resource dependence hinder economic development?; 4. Frontier expansion and economic development; Part II. Land and Water Use Change: 5. Explaining land use change in developing countries; 6. The economics of land conversion; 7. Does water availability constrain economic development?; Part III. Policies for Sustainable Resource-Based Economic-Based Development?: 8. Rural poverty and resource degradation; 9. Can resource-based development be successful?; 10. Policies for sustainable resource-based development in poor economies.