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A non-simplistic approach to composite indicators and rankings : an illustration by comparing the sustainability of the EU Countries
Luzzati, Tommaso; Gucciardi, G. - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 113 (2015), pp. 25-38
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Neither dashboard nor 'mashup' indices: an empirical wealth approach as a pathway to a comprehensive measure of development
Felice, Emanuele - Unitat d'Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de … - 2012
The article is composed of two sections. The first one is a critical review of the three main alternative indices to GDP which were proposed in the last decades – the Human Development Index (HDI), the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), and the Happy Planet Index (HPI) – which is made on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646343
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Measuring the immeasurable: a survey of substainability indices
Böhringer, Christoph; Jochem, Patrick - 2006
Sustainability indices for countries provide a one-dimensional metric to valuate country-specific information on the … be performed. This paper reviews the explanatory power of various sustainability indices applied in policy practice. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297843
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Measuring the immeasurable: a survey of substainability indices
Böhringer, Christoph; Jochem, Patrick - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
Sustainability indices for countries provide a one-dimensional metric to valuate country-specific information on the … be performed. This paper reviews the explanatory power of various sustainability indices applied in policy practice. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097645
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Towards contribution analysis
Hodge, R. Anthony - 2017
Since the early 1990s, at least 45 initiatives have been mounted to improve the environmental and social performance of the mining industry across the world. Many changes in the formal legal and regulatory systems have also been introduced. However, no systematic approach has been adopted to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592933
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Towards contribution analysis
Hodge, R. Anthony - 2017
Since the early 1990s, at least 45 initiatives have been mounted to improve the environmental and social performance of the mining industry across the world. Many changes in the formal legal and regulatory systems have also been introduced. However, no systematic approach has been adopted to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654012
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Sustainability and discounted utilitarianism in models of economic growth
Asheim, Geir B.; Mitra, Tapan - 2009
Discounted utilitarianism treats generations unequally and leads to seemingly unappealing consequences in some models of economic growth. Instead, this paper presents and applies sustainable discounted utilitarianism (SDU). SDU respects the interests of future generations and resolves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264536
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Sustainability and Optimality in Economic Development: Theoretical Insights and Policy Prospects
Farzin, Y. Hossein - 2007
This paper takes sustainability to be a matter of intergenerational welfare equality and examines whether an optimal … practical, especially in the context of developing countries. The maximin criterion of sustainability may be more appealing to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312409
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Combining rights and welfarism: A new approach to intertemporal evaluation of social alternatives
Long, Ngo Van; Martinet, Vincent - 2012
We propose a new criterion which reflects both the concern for welfare (utility) and the concern for rights in the evaluation of economic development paths. The concern for rights is captured by a pre-ordering over combinations of thresholds (floors or ceilings on various quantitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281039
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A utilitarian notion of responsibility for sustainability
Fünfgelt, Joachim; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2012
We develop and formalize a utilitarian notion of responsibility for sustainability which is inspired by Singer's (1972 … welfare maximization, and Brundtland-sustainability. Using a two-generationsresource-model, we find the following …. Sustainability and responsibility for sustainability are equivalent if and only if sustainability is feasible. If it is not, there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281771