🗓️ Session 1: Theories of socio-economic development and the environment

Author

Affiliation

Claudius Gräbner-Radkowitsch

EUF and JKU

Abstract

This session introduces different theories of socio-economic development and how they conceptualise the relationship between the economy and the environment. These perspectives provide the analytical background for the interactions between environment and development that we study throughout the course.

🖥️ Lecture Slides

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📚 Follow-up Reading

• Chang (2011) — Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark: How development has disappeared from today’s ‘development’ discourse.
• Chapter 1 in Escobar (1995).

🏆 Further readings

• Chapter 1 in Todaro and Smith (2020).
• Chapter 1 in De Janvry and Sadoulet (2021).
• Snapshot of the Human Development Report (UNDP 2024).

References

Chang, H.-J. (2011) “Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark: How development has disappeared from today’s "development" discourse,” in J. Christiansen and S. R. Khan (eds.). Towards new developmentalism: Market as means rather than master. London: Routledge, pp. 47–58.

De Janvry, A. and Sadoulet, E. (2021) Development economics: Theory and practice, Second edition., New York: Routledge.

Escobar, A. (1995) Encountering development: The making and unmaking of the Third World, Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press.

Todaro, M. P. and Smith, S. C. (2020) Economic development, Thirteenth Edition., Hoboken: Pearson.

UNDP (ed.) (2024) Breaking the gridlock: Reimagining cooperation in a polarized world, New York: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), available at https://hdr.undp.org/system/files/documents/global-report-document/hdr2023-24reporten.pdf.