The paper by Mark Gallagher reviews major issues already reported in prior ASCE conferences and elsewhere providing a backdrop to a very useful set of policy guidelines distilled from recent experiences, particularly in former Soviet bloc countries. Of equal importance to the policy considerations are tax administration issues. Administrative simplicity and corruption avoidance are essential […]
Comments by René Costales on “Forestry Policies of Cuba’s Socialist Government: An Appraisal” by Sergio Díaz-Briquets
Díaz-Briquets has done a very good paper, which is part of a series relating to natural resource and environmental issues. This paper deals with forestry, agroforestry and use of trees within agricultural practices. His perspective and scope covers well the historical participation of the forestry sector in Cuba. These comments will highlight some additional positive […]
The Economic Dimension of EIA in the Transition from a Centrally Planned Economy to a Truly Participative Market Based Economic System
Note One way in which an economist familiar with cost benefit analysis (CBA) may look at environmental impact assessment (EIA) is that EIA is a CBA requiring a large amount of information rigorously collected and analyzed by a group of scientists of various disciplines. One can appreciate that the development of EIA has served to […]