Delegates were particularly unhappy with the secrecy maintained by the host nation USA

Public perception of health and safety standards mean more than money

Linking trade and environment benefits industrialised countries in every way. And they will promote their civil society to create a bigger and bigger fuss about it

The cost of environmental degradation is rising steeply in India, says the World Bank

The insurance market can become an invaluable weapon to protect the environment against errant industrial units

Green tax measures are welcomed in various states of America

The number of institutions trying to integrate environmental concerns with economics is still small in India, especially given the size of the country and the diversity of its environmental problems and challenges, but a small beginning has already been made. This volume presents the proceedings of the national environment and economics meeting held in January 1994, in New Delhi.

Western institutions and the United Nations are keen protagonists of natural resource accounting but it may still not be a useful policy tool for planners to promote sustainable development. Experience in the Philippines has shown that only an elaborate c

THE WORLD Bank recently organised a conference in Washington on 'Valuing the Environment'. There is probably no other way that market economists can deal with the environment except by treating it as

Big business in Germany more than in any other country. But how delighted should an environmentalist be with this development?

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