Partha Dasgupta's contributions to environment and development economics / Scott Barrett, Karl-Göran Mäler, and Eric Maskin -- Learning, growth, and development : a lecture in honor of Sir Partha Dasgupta / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Some perspectives on linked ecosystems and socioeconomic systems / Kenneth J. Arrow, Paul R. Ehrlich, and Simon A. Levin -- An institutional analysis of development cooperation / Elinor Ostrom, Clark Gibson, Sujai Shivakumar, and Krister Andersson -- Climate change, cookstoves, and coughs and colds : thinking global and acting locally in rural Nepal / Krishna P. Pant, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, and Min B. Malla Thakuri ; comments by Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Red wells or green wells and does it matter? : examining household use of arsenic-contaminated water in Bangladesh / A.K. Enamul Haque, Zakir H. Khan, Mani Nepal, and Priya Shyamsundar ; comments by David Starrett -- Forest degradation in the Himalayas : determinants and policy options / Jean-Marie Baland, Sanghamitra Das, and Dilip Mookherjee ; comments by Geoffrey Heal -- An optimal contract for monitoring illegal exploitation of co-managed forests in Benin / Albert N. Honlonkou and Rashid Hassan ; comments by Eric Maskin -- Why cooperation is better : the gains to cooperative management of the Argentine shortfin squid fishery in South America / Sebastián Villasante, U. Rashid Sumaila, and Manel Antelo ; comments by Peter Hammond -- Occupational and environmental health impacts from mining in Orissa, India / Karnjana Sanglimsuwan, Erin O. Sills, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, Shubhayu Saha, Ashok Singha, and Barendra Sahoo ; comments by Robert Solow -- Estimating the value of statistical life for children in Metro Manila / Rosalina Palanca-Tan ; comments by Shanta Devarajan -- Natural resources and chronic poverty in India : interface and policy imperatives / Amita Shah ; comments by Kanchan Chopra.