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Avoiding the <i>Limits to Growth:</i> Gross National Happiness in Bhutan as a Model for Sustainable Development
Brooks, Jeremy S. - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 9, pp. 3640-3664
In their 30-year update to <i>Limits to Growth</i>, Meadows<i> et al.</i> call for a vision of sustainable development that includes systemic change brought on by new perspectives on the purpose of development, new ways of measuring progress, and changes in social norms. Here, I discuss Meadows<i> et al.</i>’s...
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Cultural Capital
Throsby, David - In: Journal of Cultural Economics 23 (1999) 1, pp. 3-12
economic analysis discussed, including issues of growth, sustainability and investment appraisal. The paper concludes with some …
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Towards an Inclusive Model of Sustainable Growth
Roseta-Palma, Catarina; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra; … - Unidade de Investigação em Desenvolvimento … - 2008
Models of economic growth are typically based on the use of one or more stocks of productive assets to create goods for utility-generating consumption. The roles played by man-made capital, natural capital and human capital have been explored, often separately, in the literature, and more...
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The Inclusive Wealth Index. A Sustainability Indicator, Really?
Thiry, Géraldine; Roman, Philippe - HAL - 2014
Among recent high-profile propositions to revise national accounts and to provide new indicators of sustainability and …, development and sustainability economics, the indicator is supposed to bring information about the wealth of nations and their … sustainability, in a comprehensive way. The inclusive wealth framework is nevertheless fraught with limitations, due to questionable …
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The Role of Institutions and Policy in Enhancing Sustainable Development and Conserving Natural Capital
Veeman, T.S.; Politylo, J. - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 5 (2003) 3, pp. 317-332
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Inclusive National Accounts: Introduction
Dasgupta, Partha - eSocialSciences - 2012
An outline of what would be ideally needed for a comprehensive set of national accounts is given. National governments and international agencies ought ideally to go even beyond green national accounts. Unfortunately though, that ideal cannot be met, at least not in the near future....
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Do people care for a sustainable future? Evidence from happiness data.
Bartolini, Stefano; Sarracino, Francesco; Theis, Laurent - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
-being. This conclusion supports the view that current problems of sustainability are due to some failure of the socio …
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Green productivity: clarifying terminology and concepts
Besco, Laurel - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 6 (2014) 4, pp. 406-425
Employing and adjusting conventional productivity measures to represent the (mis)use of natural capital in production processes has recently generated increased interest. However, the literature relating to natural capital and productivity is highly fragmented, at times uses different...
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The green economy and the knowledge economy: exploring the interface
Newton, Adrian C. - In: International Journal of Green Economics 5 (2011) 3, pp. 231-247
UK, along with many other developed countries, is now considered to be primarily a knowledge economy. According to this model, future prosperity will depend on the development of knowledge-intensive, high value-added economic activities, and on a highly skilled workforce. At the same time, the...
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Ecological Footprint forecasting and estimating using neural networks and DEA
Wu, Dexiang; Liang, Liang - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 9 (2009) 3, pp. 249-258
There is a growing consensus that social and economic sustainability depends on limited natural capital. Ecological …
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