Sustainability and Policy: Limits to Economics

ISBN-13: 9780521436052 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 364 str.

Michael Common

Opis

Sustainability and Policy addresses the sustainability problem from the discipline of economics. How can poverty be addressed without destroying the environment? This study is a balanced, constructive, and original contribution in the rapidly emerging field of environmental economics and policy.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. The world economy: north and south; 3. Sustainability; 4. history and perspective; 5. Thinking about futures; 6. Economics; 7. Resource and environmental economics; 8. Some new economics; 9. National Policy; 10. The international dimension; 11. Postscript.