Weak versus strong sustainability : exploring the limits of two opposing paradigms / Eric Neumayer
- Bib ID:
- 1124845
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Neumayer, Eric, 1970-
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2003
- xviii, 271 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 1843764881
- 1845422155
- Summary:
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"For the most part, requiring only a basic knowledge and understanding of economics, this accessible book will ensure the important theoretical and empirical debates surrounding sustainable development are available for a wide audience including undergraduate and postgraduate students of environmental and ecological economics. It will also be of interest to researchers and policymakers involved in the sustainable management of environmental resources."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction and Overview
- 2. Sustainable Development: Conceptual, Ethical and Paradigmatic Issues
- 3. Resources, the Environment and Economic Growth: Why Both Paradigms of Sustainability Are Non-Falsifiable
- 4. Preserving Natural Capital in a World of Risk, Uncertainty and Ignorance
- 5. Measuring Weak Sustainability
- 6. Measuring Strong Sustainability
- 7. Conclusions
- App. 1. How present-value maximisation can lead to extinction
- App. 2. The Hotelling rule and Ramsey rule in a simple general equilibrium model
- App. 3. The Hotelling rule and the Ramsey rule in a more complex model
- App. 4. Genuine savings accounting in World Bank (2002)
- App. 5. Regional country grouping in World Bank (2002)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2003
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