Integrated assessment (IA) aims at the integration of knowledge from diverse sources as part of the policy-making process. Frequently, IA exploits computer models and other information and communication technology (ICT) in ways that are accessible to and used by only a limited range of...

This paper presents a modelling methodology and empirical implementation for "greened-economy GDP" estimation, based on the complementarity of economic production and ecological services as sources of economic well-being. The following definition of an environmentally adjusted national product...

The focus of this paper is to discuss and show the policy relevance of "environmental load displacement" adjustments to national aggregate (macroeconomic) indicators for taking account of openness to the rest of the world. A national economy is considered as a set of production and consumption...

The paper gives an overview of the GREENSTAMP Project (GREEned National STAtistical and Modelling Procedures) which, during 1994–1996, developed results and recommendations concerning empirically and theoretically robust methods for greening national accounts. The recommended approach...

This paper presents and illustrates design principles in a programme of applied science and stakeholder consultation on sustainable agriculture in New Zealand. We report procedures and tools for building deliberations around agriculture performance, societal responsibilities and regional...

Cet article traite de la dimension environnementale de la dynamique du " Grand Paris ". Il explique comment une approche d'écologie territoriale permet d'aborder les questions de gouvernance pour la métropole Parisienne. Nous présentons, dans un premier temps, des indicateurs synthétiques...

Cet article s'adresse à la caractérisation des défis de l'innovation technologique, des choix énergétiques et de la gouvernance pour un développement durable. Appréhendant la production de tels déchets comme le " revers " de la grandeur énergétique et industrielle -- et, plus...

Cet article traite de la dimension environnementale de la dynamique du " Grand Paris ". Il explique comment une approche d'écologie territoriale permet d'aborder les questions degouvernance pour la métropole Parisienne. Nous présentons, dans un premier temps, des indicateurs synthétiques...

The transition to sustainability requires not only an understanding of the risks that society is facing but the development of pathways that will enable the shift towards sustainability. Such risks include not only resources and global warming but also established economic models and social...

Investigations of long-run sustainability of joint ecological-economic systems highlight the pertinence of reconsidering "free disposal" assumptions that underpin Sraffian and von Neumann approaches to value and growth theory. We investigate joint-production time-paths for square systems A and B...