Environmental Policies in Developing Countries

Incentive-Based Policies for Environmental Management in Developing Countries

Environmental toxicants in developing countries.

Health effects from environmental toxicants may be a more serious problem in developing countries compared with developed countries because the problem is potentiated by other factors: a) the lack of or failure to enforce regulations, which allows human exposures to genotoxic agents; b) undernourishment of the lower economic and social classes that comprise the most exposed populations from ind...

5 Urban Development Policies in Developing Countries

The recent world recession-some might even call it has been sweeping through developing countries since T a depression-is testing the vitality of urban poliWorld War 1I will be sustained through the end of this cies in developing countries. One is reminded of Dickcentury. Second, there are significant quantitative difens's Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was ferences between c...

Alternative Pollution Control Policies in Developing Countries

After decades of rapid urbanization, population growth, and industrialization, developing countries are now home to many of the world’s most severe air, water, and solid waste pollution problems. Most are taking action to address these problems, relying principally on conventional command-and-control (CAC) approaches, such as mandatory emissions limits and technology standards. Although some co...

Relationship between Environmental Quality and Economic Growth in Developing Countries (based on Environmental Performance Index)

In order to evaluate the development levels of countries, economic growth along with environmental quality account for important indices nowadays. The impacts of environmental quality (based on environmental performance index), the direct foreign investment, and trade openness on economic growth in selected developing countries have been scrutinized in the present study. In the present study th...