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Tinbergen & Hueting (1991) provide an approach to the economics of ecological survival that still is unsurpassed. Various “green GDPs” have been proposed such as ISEW, Ecological Footprint, Genuine Savings and Genuine Progress Indicator, and lately there is an increased interest in happiness...
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The Stern Review (2006) on the economics of climate change presented a cost estimate of perhaps even 20% of national income and subsequently was criticized by Weitzman and Nordhaus and others in a discussion that centered on the use of the calculus of variations and the choice of the proper rate...
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the environment. Their actual use (flow) nowadays are also called ecosystem services. Hueting defined in 1986 … for future generations. Then eDelta = NI – eSNI gives the national distance to environmental sustainability. Thus eDelta … measures the level of ecosystem services concerning the part that infringes upon environmental sustainability, or the abusive …
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issues such as sustainability. [Data and analysis for this paper are available at the Open Science Framework: https …
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contributing to the debate about composite indicators. From the empirical one it assesses the relative sustainability of the …
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For many years, the World Bank has reported estimates of the degree of sustainability of the world’s economies using a … measure of adjusted net savings. We construct long-run sustainability indicators for Germany over the period 1850-2000 to test … find that German sustainability indicators are positive for the most part, although they are negative during and after the …
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Sustainability requires that the productive base measured in terms of comprehensive wealth of a society should be …
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this report is devoted to the issue of measuring sustainability. One of the sustainability indexes it considers is the … measuring sustainability stricto sensu, avoiding a frequent confusion between the measurement of sustainability and the … global sustainability: physical and human capital accumulation, as well as changes in quantities or quality of environmental …
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measures of prosperity? A starting point may be to connect well-being research agenda with the sustainability one. However … sustainability and well-being. This article analyses the theoretical foundations and the empirical validity of some multidimensional …
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this sense, the concept of sustainability is a very powerful idea. However, although the sustainability debate has already … neglected. This article argues that in addition to the ecological, economic, and social dimension, sustainability critically … objective of this paper is to present a theoretical link between the concepts of sustainability and corporate citizenship. The …
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