The Dasgupta-Heal-Solow-Stiglitz model of capital accumulation and resource depletion poses the following sustainability problem: is it feasible to sustain indefinitely a level of consumption that is bounded away from zero? We provide a complete technological characterization of the...

The report 'Achieving Sustainable Natural Resource Management in the Sahel after the Era of Desertification' was written by Simon Bolwig, Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde, Kjeld Rasmussen, Tine Breinholt, and Michael Mortimore as part of a study commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of...

Klimawandel und Versorgungssicherheit bestimmen die Suche nach ökologisch und ökonomisch nachhaltigen Energieträgern. Biokraftstoffe scheinen beiden Zielen gleichermaßen gerecht zu werden. Was ist bei der Bewertung der Nachhaltigkeit von Biokraftstoffen zu beachten? Sollte der Staat bei der...

Eine nachhaltige Finanzpolitik der Länder sollte zu den Zielen einer Föderalismusreform gehören. Wie kann die Veröffentlichung von Indikatoren dazu beitragen, dieses Ziel zu erreichen? Welche Nachhaltigkeitskonzepte gibt es und wo liegen deren Chancen und Grenzen? Welche besonderen Probleme...

We consider the Hartwick rule for capital accumulation and resource depletion, provide semantic clarifications and investigate whether this rule indicates sustainability and requires substitutability between manmade and natural capital. In addition to shedding light on the meaning of the...

Following Arrow et al. (2003), this paper considers green national accounting when population is changing and instantaneous well-being depends not only on per capita consumption, but also population size. It is shown that welfare improvement can be indicated by an expanded “genuine savings...

Koopmans’s (Econometrica 28, 287–309) axiomatization of discounted utilitarianism is based on seemingly compelling conditions, yet this criterion leads to hard-to-justify outcomes. The present analysis considers a class of sustainable recursive social welfare functions within Koopmans’s...

We show that our general result (Withagen and Asheim [8]) on the converse of Hartwick’s rule also applies for the special case of Solow’s model with one capital good and one exhaustible resource. Hence, the criticism by Cairns and Yang [1] of our paper is unfounded.

This paper summarizes assumptions made and results obtained in parts of the literature on welfare and sustainability accounting. I consider five di®erent assumptions that can be imposed independently of each other, producing 32 different combinations. This taxonomy is used to organize results...