Sustainability Economics: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780415686839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012

Peter Bartelmus

Opis

A concise introduction to sustainability economics, this international study bridges the gap between disciplines such as environmental science and optimal growth theory, and points to practical ways of assessing and enhancing the long-term environmental and economic sustainability of our economies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: What's Economics Got to Do with It?  Part 1: Ecological Sustainability: How Much Nature Do We Need?  2. How Much Nature Do We Have?  3. How Much Nature Do We Need? Can We Sustain Its Use?  4. What Should We Do About It?  Part 2: Economic Sustainability: How Much For Nature?  5. What is the Value of Nature?  6.Accounting for Economic Sustainability.  7.  What Should We Do About It?  8. Bridging the Gap: Ecologial and Environmental Economics.  Part 3: Sustainable Development: What Else Do We Need?  9. A Cure-All Paradigm?  10. What Should We Do About It? 11. Some Conclusions: What's Countable? What Counts? What Should We Do About It?

O autorze

Peter Bartelmus is a Professor at the University of Wuppertal, Germany and since 2009, has been Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, USA.