Natural resources and economic development

Abstract

Preface 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 5. Explaining land use change in developing countries 6. The economics of land conversion 7. Does water availability constrain economic development? 8. Rural poverty and resource degradation 9. Can frontier-based development be successful? 10. Policies for sustainable resource-based development in poor economies.