The environmental sciences and economic development |
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| Authors: | B H Farmer |
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| Institution: | 1. President of St John's College , Cambridge;2. Reader in South Asian Geography and Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies , University of Cambridge , |
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| Abstract: | This article deals with one aspect of the relationship between the environmental sciences and economic development, namely, the relationship between studies of natural resources and the appraisal of agricultural development projects. It reviews some such projects in which no real attention was paid to surveys of natural resources and passes on to consider the land systems approach to the appraisal of land capability and, briefly, the applicability of” benefit/cost analysis to agricultural development projects. Its principal concern, however, is with the lamentable tendency for land resource surveys to be conducted independently of economic enquiry. It enumerates some of the reasons for this state of affairs, and suggests certain possible remedies. |
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