Confronting the persisting polarization of environmentalists and economists, this book will be of great relevance to students, scholars and professionals with an interest in environmental and ecological economics, sustainability indicators and environmental policy.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Lists of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: WHAT SHOULD WE SUSTAIN?
1 Environmental impacts: triggering sustainability concerns
2 A framework for concepts and measures of sustainability
Part II: ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY: GETTING
RICHER?
3 We, the people: are we better off?
4 We, the nation: towards a sustainable economy
5 Modeling economic sustainability: will we be better off?
Part III: ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY: HOW MUCH
NATURE DO WE NEED?
6 How much nature do we use?
7 Sustainability: reaching the limits?
Part IV: CORNUCOPIA FROM SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT?
8 What do we want: happiness, wellbeing, the good life?
9 What can we get?
10 Sustainable development: blueprint or fig leaf?
Part V: WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT IT?
11 What do the indicators tell us?
12 Strategies, policies, politics
13 Bridging the environmental-economic polarization
14 CONCLUSIONS
Annex: A brief history of sustainability science and thought
