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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Contributors -- 1 BASIC CONCEPTS OF DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT -- 1.1 Development Theory: Introductory Concepts, Criteria, and Measurements -- 1.2 Natural Resources and Environmental Services -- 1.3 Epistemology of the Field -- 2 SUSTAINABILITY -- 2.1 Basic Sustainability Concepts -- 2.2 Measurements of Sustainability -- 2.3 Philosophical Approaches and Social Movements -- 2.4 Sustainable Development Outlooks and Models -- 2.5 Sustainable Development Strategy and Agenda Statements -- 2.6 Sustainable Society: Challenges, Institutions, and Mechanisms -- 3 MAIN FACTORS BEHIND DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE -- 3.1 Population, Poverty, and Underdevelopment -- 3.2 Affluence and Consumption -- 3.3 Technology -- 3.4 Political Economy -- 3.5 Worldviews and Social Traps -- 4 INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT -- 4.1 Globalization -- 4.2 Capital Shortages and Foreign Debt -- 4.3 International Trade -- 4.4 Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration -- 4.5 Security and Sustainable Development -- 5 DECISION MAKING -- 5.1 Analytical Tools for Environmental Decisionmaking -- 5.2 Environmental Policy Instruments and Principles -- 5.3 Business Sector Responses to Environmental Problems -- 5.4 Population and Consumption Responses -- 5.5 International Environmental Management -- 6 MAJOR PROBLEMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND DEVELOPMENT -- 6.1 Agricultural Decline and Pollution -- 6.2 Air Pollution -- 6.3 Biodiversity Loss and Conservation Efforts -- 6.4 Climate Change -- 6.5 Deforestation and Forestry -- 6.6 Desertification -- 6.7 Energy Shortages and Pollution -- 6.8 Fresh Water Scarcity and Pollution -- 6.9 Global Environmental Change -- 6.10 Hazardous Wastes -- 6.11 Natural and Humanmade Disasters -- 6.12 Ocean's Resource Use and Degradation -- 6.13 Space and the Electromagnetic Spectrum -- 6.14 Ozone Depletion -- 6.15 Transportation Energy Consumption and Pollution -- References -- Index