E B Barbier
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 30526 |
|---|---|
| NOME | E B Barbier |
| PRENOMES | E B |
| SOBRENOME | Barbier |
| ASSINATURA | BARBIER E B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wyoming |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5354-3995 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 374 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Famine at birth
We use childhood exposure to disasters as a natural experiment inducing variations in adulthood outcomes. Following the fetal origin hypothesis, we hypothesize that children from households with greater famine exposure will have poorer health outcomes. Employing a unique dataset from Bangladesh, we test this hypothesis for the 1974–75 famine that was largely caused by increased differences between the price of coarse rice and agricultural wages, …
Natural capital and aggregate income growth
We explore the theoretical conditions in which natural capital improves explanations of aggregate income growth from factor changes. With positive total factor productivity (TFP) growth, including natural capital better explains growth if natural capital growth rates exceed physical capital growth rates. With negative TFP growth and higher natural capital growth rates, natural capital worsens explanations of growth. Using a comprehensive dataset …
Greening agriculture for rural development
Adaptation to Natural Disasters through the Agricultural Land Rental Market
We examine the effects of natural disasters on agricultural households that make rent-in or rent-out transactions. Our econometric approach accounts for the effects of disaster exposure on the adjustments in the quantity of operated land and agricultural income conditional on the land quantity adjustments. Using a household survey data set from Bangladesh, we find that farmers were able to partially ameliorate their losses from exposure to disast…
Sustainability, the Systems Approach and the Sustainable Development Goals
La ‘systems aproach’ est l’une des premières initiatives en économie pour rendre la notion de développement soutenable opérationnelle. Elle considère que le développement soutenable renvoie à la maximisation d’objectifs appartenant aux systèmes environnemental, économique et social. Cet article explore le lien entre la ‘systems approach’ de la soutenabilité et les objectifs de développement durable adoptés formellement par les Nations Unies en 20…
Covid-era policies and economic recovery plans
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a major impact on conservation policies and practice at multiple scales, including protected and conserved areas (PCAs). There is a need to understand the implications for PCAs of recent actions, enacted or promoted in the wake of COVID-19. To fill this knowledge gap, we reviewed economic stimulus packages and other government policies that were implemented or advanced between January and October 2020. We identifie…
Long-term impacts of the 1970 cyclone in Bangladesh
Rebuilding marine life
Sustainable Development Goal 14 of the United Nations aims to “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development”. Achieving this goal will require rebuilding the marine life-support systems that deliver the many benefits that society receives from a healthy ocean. Here we document the recovery of marine populations, habitats and ecosystems following past conservation interventions. Recovery rates acro…
Ten years to restore a planet
Sustainability and development after Covid-19
Is green rural transformation possible in developing countries
Long run agricultural land expansion, booms and busts
The Water Paradox
A radical new approach to tackling the growing threat of water scarcity Water is essential to life, yet humankind’s relationship with water is complex. For millennia, we have perceived it as abundant and easily accessible. But water shortages are fast becoming a persistent reality for all nations, rich and poor. With demand outstripping supply, a global water crisis is imminent. In this trenchant critique of current water policies and practices, …
Policy design for the Anthropocene
Sustainable development goal indicators
Overcoming environmental scarcity, inequality and structural imbalance in the world economy
The world economy faces two major threats: increasing environmental degradation and a growing gap between rich and poor. The root cause is that natural resources—or natural capital—is underpriced, and hence overly exploited, whereas human capital—the skills embodied in the workforce—is insufficient to meet demand. This outcome has three important consequences. First, all sectors of an economy will use too much natural resources relative to skille…
Poverty and climate change
Because their assets and income represent such a small share of national wealth, the impacts of climate change on poor people, even if dramatic, will be largely invisible in aggregate economic statistics such as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Assessing and managing future impacts of climate change on poverty requires different metrics, and specific studies focusing on the vulnerability of poor people. This special issue provides a set of such …
Land degradation and poverty
Tenure Security, Human Capital and Soil Conservation in an Overlapping Generation Rural Economy
Market Accessibility and Economic Growth
Building the Green Economy
The green economy in North America is at a critical crossroads. Will it foster a new wave of economy-wide innovation, employment, and green growth, or will green sectors remain a niche within an overall “brown” economy? Much will depend on what replaces the current “policy void” since the green stimulus policies of the Great Recession. Currently, three major market disincentives remain: environmentally harmful subsidies, inadequate market-based i…
Sustainable Development
Climate Change Impacts on Rural Poverty in Low-Elevation Coastal Zones
This paper identifies the low-elevation coastal zone populations and developing regions most vulnerable to sea-level rise and other coastal hazards, such as storm surges, coastal erosion, and salt-water intrusion. The focus is on the rural poor in the low-elevation coastal zone, as their economic livelihoods are especially endangered directly by coastal hazards and indirectly through the impacts of climate change on key coastal and near-shore eco…
Explaining forest transitions
Simple-but-sound methods for estimating the value of changes in biodiversity for biological pest control in agriculture
Economic growth and environmental degradation
The forest transition
Scarcity, frontiers and development
Resource and land frontiers have always been a significant focus of geography but have become overlooked in economics and economic history. Yet a critical driving force behind global economic development has been the response of human society to natural resource scarcity, not just through conserving scarce resources but also by obtaining and developing more of them. A handful of theories of how such classic frontier expansion has shaped economic …
Sustainable development goal indicators
Sustainability and development after Covid-19
Policy design for the Anthropocene
The Economics of Tropical Deforestation and Land Use
This paper both introduces the special issue on the economics of tropical deforestation and land use and conducts a synthesis crosscountry analysis of tropical agricultural land expansion. Agricultural development is the main factor determining land expansion, but institutional factors have an important influence. Income effects vary from region to region, and do not always display an EKC relationship. The case studies comprising this special iss…
Agricultural Expansion, Resource Booms and Growth in Latin America
Is green rural transformation possible in developing countries
Land degradation and poverty
Cash crops, food crops, and sustainability
Environmental Sustainability and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Efforts to 'operationalize' a concept of sustainability into appraisal methods for practical decisionmaking have been few and generally unpersuasive. In this paper it is argued that this need not be the case if a set of environmentally compensating, or 'shadow', projects within an overall portfolio are used to ensure a sustainability objective of setting a constraint on the depletion and degradation of the stock of natural capital. This can be ac…
Sustainable Use of Wetlands Valuing Tropical Wetland Benefits
Tropical wetlands are increasingly disappearing as the result of development decisions. Common examples are the conversion of mangrove swamps to fishponds, diverting water away from river floodplains, draining wetlands for agriculture and other land uses, and over-loading wetlands with pollution. Too often, such development decisions are taken without considering the loss in wetland benefits arising from damages and conversion; the underlying ass…
Building the Green Economy
The green economy in North America is at a critical crossroads. Will it foster a new wave of economy-wide innovation, employment, and green growth, or will green sectors remain a niche within an overall “brown” economy? Much will depend on what replaces the current “policy void” since the green stimulus policies of the Great Recession. Currently, three major market disincentives remain: environmentally harmful subsidies, inadequate market-based i…
Economic and Demographic Factors Affecting Mangrove Loss in the Coastal Provinces of Thailand, 1979–1996
The following paper analyzes the economic and demographic factors determining the conversion of mangroves in the coastal provinces of Thailand to commercial shrimp farming. Mangrove conversion therefore is determined by the returns to shrimp farmers, (i.e. the price of shrimp), the input costs to farming shrimp (e.g. feed price and wages) and the "accessibility" of mangrove areas. Additional exogenous influences, such as income per capita, popula…
Paradise Lost? The Ecological Economics of Biodiversity
Paradise Lost? The Ecological Economics of Biodiversity. Get access Paradise Lost? The Ecological Economics of Biodiversity. By (Edward B.) BArbier, BURGESS JOANNE C.) and Folke (Carl). (London: Earthscan Publications, 1994. Pp. xvi + 267 £14.95 paperback. ISBN 1 85383 181 6.)The Economic Value of Biodiversity. By Pearce (David) and Moran (Dominic). (London: Earthscan Publications, 1994. Pp. viii+ 172 £32.50 hardback, £12.95 paperback. ISBN 1 853…
Adaptation to Natural Disasters through the Agricultural Land Rental Market
We examine the effects of natural disasters on agricultural households that make rent-in or rent-out transactions. Our econometric approach accounts for the effects of disaster exposure on the adjustments in the quantity of operated land and agricultural income conditional on the land quantity adjustments. Using a household survey data set from Bangladesh, we find that farmers were able to partially ameliorate their losses from exposure to disast…
Market Accessibility and Economic Growth
Simple-but-sound methods for estimating the value of changes in biodiversity for biological pest control in agriculture
Climate change mitigation policies and poverty
Climate change mitigation policies include a wide range of actions, including efforts to reduce greenhouse gas ( GHG ) emissions from fossil fuel combustion, energy efficiency and end‐use innovations, and reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation. Such policies can affect poverty in developing countries either directly or indirectly. Direct impacts on poverty include payments for avoided deforestation that affect the livelihoods of …
The Contribution of Environmental and Resource Economics to an Economics of Sustainable Development
Development and ChangeVolume 20, Issue 3 p. 429-459 The Contribution of Environmental and Resource Economics to an Economics of Sustainable Development Edward B. Barbier, Edward B. Barbier Has worked since 1986 as an economist at the International Institute for Environment and Development, 3 Endsleigh Street, London WC1H ODD, England. He is currently Associate Director of the IIED/ University College London Environmental Economics Centre. Dr Barb…
The Concept of Sustainable Economic Development
Increasing recognition that the overall goals of environmental conservation and economic development are not conflicting but can be mutually reinforcing, has prompted calls for ‘environmentally sustainable’ economic development. Although there are difficulties in defining sustainable development in an analytically rigorous way, there is still a need to evolve a concept of sustainability that both distinguishes it from other post-war meanings of d…
Cash crops, food crops, and sustainability
The Contribution of Environmental and Resource Economics to an Economics of Sustainable Development
Development and ChangeVolume 20, Issue 3 p. 429-459 The Contribution of Environmental and Resource Economics to an Economics of Sustainable Development Edward B. Barbier, Edward B. Barbier Has worked since 1986 as an economist at the International Institute for Environment and Development, 3 Endsleigh Street, London WC1H ODD, England. He is currently Associate Director of the IIED/ University College London Environmental Economics Centre. Dr Barb…
Alternative approaches to economic-environmental interactions
Environmental Sustainability and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Efforts to 'operationalize' a concept of sustainability into appraisal methods for practical decisionmaking have been few and generally unpersuasive. In this paper it is argued that this need not be the case if a set of environmentally compensating, or 'shadow', projects within an overall portfolio are used to ensure a sustainability objective of setting a constraint on the depletion and degradation of the stock of natural capital. This can be ac…
Economics and biological diversity
Sustainable Development
Sustainable Use of Wetlands Valuing Tropical Wetland Benefits
Tropical wetlands are increasingly disappearing as the result of development decisions. Common examples are the conversion of mangrove swamps to fishponds, diverting water away from river floodplains, draining wetlands for agriculture and other land uses, and over-loading wetlands with pollution. Too often, such development decisions are taken without considering the loss in wetland benefits arising from damages and conversion; the underlying ass…
Paradise Lost? The Ecological Economics of Biodiversity
Paradise Lost? The Ecological Economics of Biodiversity. Get access Paradise Lost? The Ecological Economics of Biodiversity. By (Edward B.) BArbier, BURGESS JOANNE C.) and Folke (Carl). (London: Earthscan Publications, 1994. Pp. xvi + 267 £14.95 paperback. ISBN 1 85383 181 6.)The Economic Value of Biodiversity. By Pearce (David) and Moran (Dominic). (London: Earthscan Publications, 1994. Pp. viii+ 172 £32.50 hardback, £12.95 paperback. ISBN 1 853…
Economic growth and environmental degradation
Valuing the environment as input
The Economics of Tropical Deforestation
This paper provides a survey of ‘first wave’ economic studies of tropical deforestation and land use. These studies of tropical forest land conversion are generally at the cross‐country level. We also conduct a synthesis cross‐country analysis of tropical agricultural land expansion. The results show that agricultural development is the main factor determining land expansion, but institutional factors have an important influence. Income effects t…
A note on the economics of biological invasions
The Economics of Tropical Deforestation and Land Use
This paper both introduces the special issue on the economics of tropical deforestation and land use and conducts a synthesis crosscountry analysis of tropical agricultural land expansion. Agricultural development is the main factor determining land expansion, but institutional factors have an important influence. Income effects vary from region to region, and do not always display an EKC relationship. The case studies comprising this special iss…
Biological Invasion Risks and the Public Good
Perrings, C., M. Williamson, E. B. Barbier, D. Delfino, S. Dalmazzone, J. Shogren, P. Simmons and A. Watkinson 2002. Biological Invasion Risks and the Public Good: an Economic Perspective. Conservation Ecology 6(1):1. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00396-060101
Economic and Demographic Factors Affecting Mangrove Loss in the Coastal Provinces of Thailand, 1979–1996
The following paper analyzes the economic and demographic factors determining the conversion of mangroves in the coastal provinces of Thailand to commercial shrimp farming. Mangrove conversion therefore is determined by the returns to shrimp farmers, (i.e. the price of shrimp), the input costs to farming shrimp (e.g. feed price and wages) and the "accessibility" of mangrove areas. Additional exogenous influences, such as income per capita, popula…
Economic and Demographic Factors Affecting Mangrove Loss in the Coastal Provinces of Thailand, 1979–1996
The following paper analyzes the economic and demographic factors determining the conversion of mangroves in the coastal provinces of Thailand to commercial shrimp farming. Mangrove conversion therefore is determined by the returns to shrimp farmers, (i.e. the price of shrimp), the input costs to farming shrimp (e.g. feed price and wages) and the “accessibility” of mangrove areas. Additional exogenous influences, such as income per capita, popula…
Explaining Agricultural Expansion, Resource Booms and Growth in Latin America
Agricultural Expansion, Resource Booms and Growth in Latin America
Importing exotic plants and the risk of invasion
Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services
Human-dominated marine ecosystems are experiencing accelerating loss of populations and species, with largely unknown consequences. We analyzed local experiments, long-term regional time series, and global fisheries data to test how biodiversity loss affects marine ecosystem services across temporal and spatial scales. Overall, rates of resource collapse increased and recovery potential, stability, and water quality decreased exponentially with d…
Ethnobiology, socio-economics and management of mangrove forests
Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management with Nonlinear Ecological Functions and Values
A common assumption is that ecosystem services respond linearly to changes in habitat size. This assumption leads frequently to an “all or none” choice of either preserving coastal habitats or converting them to human use. However, our survey of wave attenuation data from field studies of mangroves, salt marshes, seagrass beds, nearshore coral reefs, and sand dunes reveals that these relationships are rarely linear. By incorporating nonlinear wav…
Poverty, development, and environment
This paper examines the complex relationship that exists between poverty and natural resource degradation in developing countries. The rural poor are often concentrated in fragile, or less favorable, environmental areas. Consequently, their livelihoods can be intimately dependent on natural resource use and ecosystem services. The relationship between poverty and natural resource degradation may depend on a complex range of choices and tradeoffs …
The forest transition
Economics (41 obras) · Geography (32 obras) · Natural resource economics (27 obras) · Business (20 obras) · Ecology (18 obras) · Biology (16 obras) · Economic growth (13 obras) · Environmental Science (13 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (13 obras)