Operating within the framework of conventional welfare economics, the sustainability debate has become mired in sterile discussions about the "proper" discount rate and the "true" degree of substitutability between various forms of economic capital. This paper suggests abandoning the...

There is growing interest in sustainability, sustainable development, and sustainable transportation. This paper identifies issues related to the definition, evaluation and implementation of sustainable transportation. Significant issues include the range of definitions of sustainability, the...

This paper analyses key issues linking sustainable development and climate change. It describes sustainomics as "a transdisciplinary, integrative, balanced, heuristic and practical meta-framework for making development more sustainable". The environmental, social and economic criteria for...

One general understanding of sustainable development concept is this being a socio-economic model of society life, satisfaction of life's necessities for the current generation should be reached without deprivation of such opportunity for next generations. Thus, rational usage of natural...

According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, developed countries should take the lead in combating climate change. This paper highlights development patterns that could gradually transform Northern societies in low-emission countries. Given that the environmental space available to...

Material throughput is a means of measuring the so-called social metabolism, or physical dimensions of a society's consumption, and can be taken as an indirect and approximate indicator of sustainability. Material flow accounting can be used to test the dematerialisation hypothesis, the idea...

This paper examines the influence of global discourses on policies and programmes for Natural Resource Management (NRM) in Australia, and the emergence of 56 formalised regional NRM bodies and their community-based Boards of management with responsibilities for NRM planning and implementation....

China is an economic powerhouse with annual economic growth averaging close to 9% over the last 25 years. However, as a result of this extremely rapid economic growth, the scale and seriousness of its environmental problems are clearly evident. Consequently, a number of environmental problems,...