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Basic concepts and ideas -- Limits to growth -- Economics in a full world -- The challenge of ecological economics … : historical context and some specific issues -- Issues with the World Bank -- Sustainable development : definitions, principles …, policies -- The illth of nations : comments on World Bank world development report, 2003 -- Can we grow our way to an …
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Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, national governments have introduced a range of policy measures designed to steer their economies along a more sustainable path. Yet how are we to know how successful these have been? This significant new book discusses the ways in which sustainable...
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This unique book provides cutting-edge knowledge and analyses of the consequences that climate change will have for sustainable development and poverty reduction within the context of global development
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This book discusses important recent developments in the theory, concepts and empirical applications of ecological economics and sustainable development. The editors have assembled a fascinating collection of papers from some of the leading scholars in the field of ecological economics
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-reaching Handbook. The contributing authors discuss the ongoing debates about sustainability and energy use, energy economics, renewable …. 4. Other energy and sustainability issues -- pt. 5. Energy and climate policy -- pt. 6. Other dimensions of energy …
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1. Introduction -- 2. Wealth and social welfare -- 3. Population growth and sustainability -- 4. Testing genuine saving …
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approach to environmental choice / Bryan G. Norton -- The capital approach to sustainability / Giovanni Ruta and Kirk Hamilton … : discounting and its alternatives / Cameron Hepburn -- Population and sustainability / Geoffrey McNicoll -- Technological lock …-in and the role of innovation / Timothy J. Foxon -- Distribution, sustainability and environmental policy / Geoffrey Heal and …
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pt. 1. Defining sustainability -- pt. 2. Issues in modelling sustainability -- pt. 3. Model descriptions -- pt. 4 …
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comprehending institutional dimensions of sustainability, emphasising the complexity of institutional systems, and highlighting the … institutional accommodation of a sustainability discourse, the interdependence of normative and institutional change; reiteration …
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This insightful book explores the limits of the two opposing paradigms of sustainability in an accessible way. It … ignorance about the future are also examined. The author provides a critical discussion of measures of sustainability. As … indicators of weak sustainability, he analyses Genuine Savings and the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare, also known as the …
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