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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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This paper examines whether natural resource dependence has a negative influence on various indicators of institutional quality when controlling for the potential effects of other geographic, economic and cultural initial conditions. Analysis of a panel of countries from 1996 to 2010 indicates...
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transformation, and the new global agenda: What this means for China and the world / Ehtisham Ahmad, Isabella Neuweg and Nicholas …Economies around the world have arrived at a critical juncture: to continue to grow fuelled by fossil fuels and … green growth, and highlights key lessons from the experience of green transformations across the world following a decade of …
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from all over the world. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the broader picture of the state-of-the-art in …
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This timely and important Handbook takes stock of progress made in our understanding of what sustainable development actually is and how it can be measured and achieved. -- 'This Handbook demonstrates the well-established body of thinking on sustainable development which now exists, and its...
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This important book presents fresh thinking and new results on the measurement of sustainable development. Economic theory suggests that there should be a link between future wellbeing and current wealth. This book explores this linkage under a variety of headings: population growth,...
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This unique and informative book highlights the relationship between crisis, innovation, and sustainable development, and discusses the necessary conditions required to seize the ecological opportunity. The authors study the strength of change for building a new society, and the theoretical...
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Institutional Change for Sustainable Development presents a flexible, accessible, yet robust conceptual framework for comprehending institutional dimensions of sustainability, emphasising the complexity of institutional systems, and highlighting the interdependence between policy learning and...
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. Resources, the environment and economic growth : is natural capital substitutable? -- 4. Preserving natural capital in a world …
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