Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Website -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- PART ONE: Critique of Development Economics and the Need for a Biophysical Alternative -- 1: Does the Emperor Have Any Clothes? An Overview of Scientific Critiques of Neoclassical Economics -- 2: The Relation Between Economic Development and Land-Use Change in the Tropics -- 3: A Brief History of International Development: Models and Foreign Aid -- 4: The Need to Reintegrate the Natural Sciences with Economics -- 5: The Myth of Efficiency through Market Economics: A Biophysical Analysis of Tropical Economies -- 6: How to Construct a Biophysical Economic Model for a Country or Region That Can Be Used for Rapid Appraisal of Development Potential -- PART TWO: National Success Stories, National Failures, and a Lot of Ambiguity -- 7: The South Korean Experience in Economic Development -- 8: The Myth of Development: Examples from the Republic of Niger -- 9: Assessing the Possibility of Sustainable Development in Costa Rica -- 10: Putting Development in Perspective: Colonial and Neocolonial Dynamics in the Philippines -- 11: Is the Argentine National Economy Being Destroyed by the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago? -- 12: Testing Boserup: An Analysis of the Relation between Human Population Growth and Cereal Supply in Nepal -- PART THREE: Science for Development: Building Biophysical Models of Development Potential -- 13: Trade-offs between Income and Erosionin a Small Watershed: GIS and Economic Modeling in the Río Jalapa Watershed, Honduras -- 14: Simulation Modeling for Characterizing Strategic Streamwater Availability in the Tascalapa River Watershed, Honduras -- 15: The Application of Land Use-Analysis Tools across Different Scales to the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica.

16: Deriving Land-Quality Indicators from the Landscape Units Used in Soils Surveys -- 17: Modeling Land-Use Dynamics with Geographical Data: The Case of Intervened Ecosystems in the Central Mountain Range of Venezuela -- 18: Scale Issues in Developing a Deforestation Baseline for the Region of the Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project, Bolivia -- 19: A Preliminary Simulation of the Potential for Sustainability in Eritrea -- PART FOUR: Science for Development: Developing Social Models and Parameters -- 20: Improving Poverty-Reduction Policies, Part 1: Deriving Classic and Local Poverty Indicators -- 21: Farmers' Decision Making on Land Use: The Importance of Soil Conditions in the Case of the Río Cabuyal Watershed of Colombia -- 22: Choosing Social Technologies Empirically -- PART FIVE: Science for Development: Assessing and Mitigating Environmental Impact and Its Economic Consequences -- 23: Soil Erosion: A Food and Environmental Threat -- 24: Assessing and Highlighting Forest Change in the Tropics Using Multiscale Data Sets -- 25: Reducing Pesticide Runoff to the Caribbean Sea: A Formidable Regional Challenge -- 26: Neoclassical Economics and Fisheries -- 27: Shrimp Culture in Latin America: An Economic Experiment out of Control, and the Social Issues of High-tech Solutions -- PART SIX: Science for Development: Doing Better Economics -- 28: A Spatial Model of Accessibility: Linking Population and Infrastructure to Land-Use Patterns in the Honduran Hillsides -- 29: Rural Accessibility Decision Making: Issues of Integration, Scale, and Sustainability -- 30: Agent-based Systems and Policy Analysis: Perspectives and Challenges for a New Approach to Economic Modeling -- 31: Making Tropical Agriculture More Sustainable by Using Bioeconomic Models.

32: Using Input-Output Analysis to Analyze the Economy of the Grande de San Ramón River Basin in Costa Rica -- PART SEVEN: Science for Development: Working with Decision Makers -- 33: Toward Sustainable Agricultural Development in Costa Rica: Roles and Complementarities of Technical Assistance and Science -- 34: Watershed Scales and Levels: Experiences with Projects in Central America -- 35: A Systems Approach to Planning as a Mechanism for Rural Development in Colombia -- 36: Improving Poverty-Reduction Policies, Part 2: Contrasting and Harmonizing Representations -- 37: Postscript: The Elephants in the Living Room -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.