Environment, growth and development : the concepts and strategies of sustainability

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Environment, growth and development : the concepts and strategies of sustainability

Peter Bartelmus

Routledge, 1994

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-160) and index

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Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780415084840

Description

First Published in 2004. Environment, Growth and Development offers a unique analysis of sustainable economic growth and development and the implications for policy and planning at the local, national and global scale.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 What On Earth Is Wrong?
  • Chapter 2 Accounting for Sustainable Development
  • Chapter 3 Environment and Development-A Matter of Sustainability?
  • Chapter 4 Planning and Policies I: Sustainable Growth and Structural Change
  • Chapter 5 Planning and Policies II: Sustainable Development
  • Chapter 6 Outlook: From National to Global Compacts
Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780415106696

Description

Is sustainable development the answer to environmental decline and development failure? In 1987, the Brundtland Commission concluded that sustainable development would integrate environmental concerns into mainstream policies, shifting focus from weak and peripheral environmental management to the socio-economic policy sources of environmental impacts. The 1992 Earth Summit confirmed this approach, endorsing integrated environmental and economic accounting by policy makers. "Green accounting" is now being implemented to formulate national policies for sustainable development. "Environment, Growth and Development" offers an analysis of sustainable economic growth and development based on operational variables derived from the new systems of "green accounting". A complete revision and expansion of the first edition, this book offers a new focus on macroeconomic aspects through its analysis of "green accounting" methods, comparing the "goods" of economic production and consumption with the "bads" of losses of natural resources and environmental quality. Beyond economics, ways of evaluating social, cultural, aesthetic or ethical issues are also proposed.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 What on Earth is Wrong: Development and Environment - From Global Discussion to Global Frustration
  • Diagnosis - A Planet at Risk
  • Evaluation - How Bad is it? Part 2 Accounting for Sustainable Development: Environment and Economic Process
  • A System for Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting
  • Pricing the Priceless - the Limits of Monetary Valuation
  • Case Studies. Part 3 Environment and Development - A Matter of Sustainability?: Sustainability Criteria
  • Definitions of Sustainable Growth and Development
  • Sustainability and Optimality. Part 4 Planning and Policies (1) - Sustainable Growth and Structural Change: Policy Framework
  • Eco-variables in Macroeconomics
  • Cost Internationalization and Structural Change. Part 5 Planning and Policies (2) - Sustainable Development: Integrated Planning and Policies
  • Grassroots Strategies - Ecodevelopment
  • Implementation - Towards a National Action Plan for Sustainable Development. Part 6 Outlook - from National to Global Compacts: Towards Global Sustainability
  • Earth Summit - An Agenda for the 21st Century
  • From National to Global Compacts.

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