Sustainability Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach

ISBN-13: 9781349346936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 335 str.

S. Shmelev;I. Shmeleva

Opis

Sustainability Analysis provides a detailed exploration of current environmental thinking from a variety of perspectives, including institutional and psychological angles. Primarily focusing on macroeconomic policies and green national accounting, this book provides a strong basis for further study in sustainable development.

Spis treści

Introduction Actors, Paradigms and Ideologies in Global Governance for Sustainability System of Accounts for Global Entropy-Production (SAGE-P) Interdisciplinarity and Sustainable Development: Policy Implications Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis of the UK Economy Comparative Behaviour and Institutions The Systemic Psychological Description of Ecological Consciousness Sustainable Development: From Concepts to Models Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Energy Saving Climate Change Discourse Analysis: The Russian Case New Europe - New Energy: Sustainable Energy in the Expanded EU The Environmental Quality of Growth Indicators Evaluating the Sustainable Development of a Region Using a System of Indicators

O autorze

JUDY BROWN School of Accounting and Commercial Law, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand BEAT BÜRGENMEIER Centre of Human Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland TERRY COOK Energy and Environment Research Unit, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK DAVID ELLIOT Energy and Environment Research Unit, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK FERENC FODOR EDF, Paris, France ANTHONY FRIEND Oikos, Ottawa, Canada IRINA GLAZYRINA Institute of Natural Resources, Ecology, and Cryology, Chita, Russia and the Chita State University, Chita, Russia DMITRY KAVTARADZE Laboratory of Complex Systems Management Modelling, School of Public Administration, Moscow State University, Russia ELENA LIKHACHEVA Laboratory of Complex Systems Management Modelling, School of Public Administration, Moscow State University, Russia GALINA E. MEKUSH General and Regional Economics Department, Kemerovo University, Russia STANISLAV SHMELEV University of Oxford, UK, and Environment Europe IRINA SHMELEVA, School of International Relations, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia PETER SÖDERBAUM School of Sustainable Development of Science and Technology, Mälardalen University, Sweden ARILD VATN Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway