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  • Making World Development Work: Scientific Alternatives to Neoclassical Economic Theory
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  • Edited by Grégoire Leclerc and Charles A. S. Hall
  • 2007
  • Published by: University of New Mexico Press
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Making World Development Work is about economic development and its relation to population, environment and resource issues in less affluent countries. The essays presented here criticize the way most large development projects are designed and conducted and are written by professionals from a broad range of disciplines involved in current development research.

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  1. Front Cover
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Contents
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  1. Website
  2. p. viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. viii
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  1. Abbreviations
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. PART ONE. Critique of Development Economics and the Need for a Biophysical Alternative
  2. pp. 1-2
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  1. 1. Does the Emperor Have Any Clothes?: An Overview of Scientific Critiques of Neoclassical Economics
  2. pp. 14-23
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  1. 2. The Relation Between Economic Development and Land-Use Change in the Tropics
  2. pp. 13-38
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  1. 3. A Brief History of International Development: Models and Foreign Aid
  2. pp. 39-74
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  1. 4. The Need to Reintegrate the Natural Sciences with Economics
  2. pp. 75-89
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  1. 5. The Myth of Efficiency through Market Economics: A Biophysical Analysis of Tropical Economies
  2. pp. 90-103
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  1. 6. How to Construct a Biophysical Economic Model for a Country or Region That Can Be Used for Rapid Appraisal of Development Potential
  2. pp. 104-120
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  1. PART TWO. National Success Stories, National Failures, and a Lot of Ambiguity
  2. pp. 123-126
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  1. 7. The South Korean Experience in Economic Development
  2. pp. 127-141
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  1. 8. The Myth of Development: Examples from the Republic of Niger
  2. pp. 142-149
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  1. 9. Assessing the Possibility of Sustainable Development in Costa Rica
  2. pp. 150-159
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  1. 10. Putting Development in Perspective: Colonial and Neocolonial Dynamics in the Philippines
  2. pp. 160-177
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  1. 11. Is the Argentine National Economy Being Destroyed by the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago?
  2. pp. 178-191
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  1. 12. Testing Boserup: An Analysis of the Relation between Human Population Growth and Cereal Supply in Nepal
  2. pp. 192-206
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  1. PART THREE: Science for Development: Building Biophysical Models of Development Potential
  2. pp. 207-208
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  1. 13. Trade-offs between Income and Erosion in a Small Watershed: GIS and Economic Modeling in the R
  2. pp. 209-215
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  1. 14. Simulation Modeling for Characterizing Strategic Streamwater Availability in the Tascalapa River Watershed, Honduras
  2. pp. 216-232
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  1. 15. The Application of Land Use–Analysis Tools across Different Scales to the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica
  2. pp. 233-250
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  1. 16. Deriving Land-Quality Indicators from the Landscape Units Used in Soils Surveys
  2. pp. 251-262
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  1. 17. Modeling Land-Use Dynamics with Geographical Data: The Case of Intervened Ecosystems in the Central Mountain Range of Venezuela
  2. pp. 263-279
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  1. 18. Scale Issues in Developing a Deforestation Baseline for the Region of the Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project, Bolivia
  2. pp. 280-302
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  1. 19. A Preliminary Simulation of the Potential for Sustainability in Eritrea
  2. pp. 303-312
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  1. PART FOUR. Science for Development: Developing Social Models and Parameters
  2. pp. 313-314
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  1. 20. Improving Poverty-Reduction Policies, Part 1: Deriving Classic and Local Poverty Indicators
  2. pp. 315-343
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  1. 21. Farmers’ Decision Making on Land Use: The Importance of Soil Conditions in the Case of the Río Cabuyal Watershed of Colombia
  2. pp. 344-362
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  1. 22. Choosing Social Technologies Empirically
  2. pp. 363-279
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  1. PART FIVE. Science for Development: Assessing and Mitigating Environmental Impact and Its Economic Consequences
  2. pp. 377-378
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  1. 23. Soil Erosion: A Food and Environmental Threat
  2. pp. 379-393
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  1. 24. Assessing and Highlighting Forest Change in the Tropics Using Multiscale Data Sets
  2. pp. 394-401
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  1. 25. Reducing Pesticide Runoff to the Caribbean Sea: A Formidable Regional Challenge
  2. pp. 402-422
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  1. 26. Neoclassical Economics and Fisheries
  2. pp. 423-441
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  1. 27. Shrimp Culture in Latin America: An Economic Experiment out of Control, and the Social Issues of High-tech Solutions
  2. pp. 442-454
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  1. PART SIX. Science for Development: Doing Better Economics
  2. pp. 455-456
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  1. 28. A Spatial Model of Accessibility: Linking Population and Infrastructure to Land-Use Patterns in the Honduran Hillsides
  2. pp. 457-473
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  1. 29. Rural Accessibility Decision Making: Issues of Integration, Scale, and Sustainability
  2. pp. 474-486
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  1. 30. Agent-based Systems and Policy Analysis: Perspectives and Challenges for a New Approach to Economic Modeling
  2. pp. 487-514
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  1. 31. Making Tropical Agriculture More Sustainable by Using Bioeconomic Models
  2. pp. 515-527
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  1. 32. Using Input-Output Analysis to Analyze the Economy of the Grande de San Ram
  2. pp. 528-540
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  1. PART SEVEN. Science for Development: Working with Decision Makers
  2. pp. 541-542
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  1. 33. Toward Sustainable Agricultural Development in Costa Rica: Roles and Complementarities of Technical Assistance and Science
  2. pp. 543-562
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  1. 34. Watershed Scales and Levels: Experiences with Projects in Central America
  2. pp. 563-566
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  1. 35. A Systems Approach to Planning as a Mechanism for Rural Development in Colombia
  2. pp. 567-593
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  1. 36. Improving Poverty-Reduction Policies, Part 2: Contrasting and Harmonizing Representations
  2. pp. 594-615
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  1. 37. Postscript: The Elephants in the Living Room
  2. pp. 616-622
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 623-630
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 631-645
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  1. Back Cover
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