Incluye bibliografía

Introduction -- 1. Appraisal methodology for sustainable development projects / Hussein Abaza -- 2. Environmental economics and valuation in development decision making / Mohan Munasinghe and Ernst Lutz -- 3. Poverty, resources, and fertility: the household as a reproductive partnership / Partha Dasgupta -- 4. The Question of a public sewerage system in the Caribbean: a case study / Arthur H. Darling, Christian Gomez and Mario E. Niklitschek -- 5. Environmental economics and natural resource management: The african development bank experience / Anil Markandya and Carlos Muñoz -- 6. The rural development and environmental protection project in the day forest in Djibouti: a case study / Nessim J. Ahmad -- 7. Incorporating environmental costs into power development planning: a case study of Sri Lanka / Peter Meier and Mohan Munasinghe -- 8. National economic cost of soil erosion in Zimbabwe -- 9. Environmental management: an economic proposal for Uruguay / Roberto Alfredo Recalde -- 10. Integrated environmental and economic accounting: a case study for Mexico / Jan van Tongeren, Stefan Scheweinfest, Ernst Lutz, María Gomez Luna, Francisco Guillen Martin -- 11. Issues and options in implementing the Montreal protocol in developing countries / Mohan Munasinghe and Kenneth King -- Appendix.

The decade of the 1980s has witnessed a fundamental change in the way governments and development agencies think about the environment and development. The two are no longer regarded as mutually exclusive. It is now recognized that a healthy environment is essential to sustainable development and a healthy economy. Moreover, economists and planners are beginning to recognize that economic development which erodes natural capital is often not successful. In fact, development strategies and programs which do not take adequate account of the state of critical resources -- forests, soil, grasslands, freshwater, coastal areas and fisheries -- may degrade the resource base upon which future growth is dependent. Since its inception in 1980, the Committee of International Development Institutions on the Environment (CIDIE), now up to 17 members, has played a key role in coordinating work and facilitating information exchange on the full range of sustainable development issues. This volume provides ample evidence of progress made by the group in the area of environmental economics -- which is a vital prerequisite to help incorporate environmental concerns into development decisionmaking. The result of the workshop presented in the report is a milestone for sustainable development options and, therefore, will be most helpful to the work of all CIDIE member institutions, as well as others in the development community.