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This book explains why the climate change crisis is a symptom of a much larger underlying problem namely, humankind s predilection with continuous GDP-growth. Given this starting point, the world s high-income nations must begin the transition to a qualitatively-improving steady-state economy and low-income nations must follow suit at some stage over the next 20-40 years. Unless they do, a well-designed emissions protocol will be as useless as the paper it is written on.

Adopting an ecological economic approach, this book sets out why we must abandon the goal of continuous growth;...

Mounting evidence suggests that GDP growth is damaging the natural environment and unlikely to be ecologically sustainable in the long-run. At the same time, an annual GDP growth rate of around three percent is regarded as the minimum necessary to prevent unemployment from escalating. Clearly, a trade-off exists between environmental goals and employment goals, yet this trade-off has been largely ignored or denied.

This book aims to resolve the environment-employment dilemma by suggesting ways and means to achieve low rates of unemployment, or preferably full employment, in...

Mounting evidence suggests that GDP growth is damaging the natural environment and unlikely to be ecologically sustainable in the long-run. At the same time, an annual GDP growth rate of around three percent is regarded as the minimum necessary to prevent unemployment from escalating. Clearly, a trade-off exists between environmental goals and employment goals, yet this trade-off has been largely ignored or denied.

This book aims to resolve the environment-employment dilemma by suggesting ways and means to achieve low rates of unemployment, or preferably full employment, in...

Since the ecological economics approach to sustainable development is still a relatively new paradigm, its long-term success rests heavily o n the formalized establishment of the most basic and fundamental princ iples. This volume discusses the formation of these principles and the ir implementation in the real world. Lawn establishes the ground-rules by showing that development need not be achieved at the expense of ec ological sustainability. He presents the tools, guidelines, and concep tual framework necessary to move toward sustainable development. Fill ed with figures, tables, and...

This timely volume brings together some of the leading thinkers in ecological economics to show that achieving sustainable development will require economies to operate within ecological limits; nations to produce and maintain better rather than more physical wealth; and the international community to restore 'internationalist' institutions and trading arrangements. This book focuses on three critical issues pertaining to the broader goal of sustainable development - namely, the degenerative forces of globalisation, ecological sustainability requirements, and how best to negotiate the...

Intends to take the reader through the process of preparing a Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI). This book's presentation reflects the natural progression of identifying the deficiencies commonly found in income-based measures of sustainable well-being; and