Approaches to Sustainable DevelopmentRoutledge, 2021 M12 24 - 313 pages A definition of sustainable development is that of the Brundtland Commission - "...development which meets the needs of the current generation without jeopardizing the needs of future generations". This volume seeks to analyze the economic basis for this definition, and to look at the critiques of the economic approach - which have their basis in growing disquiet over the role of the productive normative science driving technological change and economic transformation. The discussion is followed by studies of the application of the criteria of sustainability to rural problems in South Asia, Kenya, Nepal, and Latin America and to urban/industrial problems in Jamaica, Chile and Vietnam. |
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... marginal costs (e.g. a small country or community drawing water from the same source) then the use of marginal cost pricing would ensure that everyone's marginal water productivity was the same. This would satisfy the Pareto criterion ...
... marginal costs (e.g. a small country or community drawing water from the same source) then the use of marginal cost pricing would ensure that everyone's marginal water productivity was the same. This would satisfy the Pareto criterion ...
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... marginal, schemes such as new irrigation projects, replacement of groundwater with surface sources, and the diversion of water from farms to other users. Marginal changes, such as supplementary supplies to an existing water system, or ...
... marginal, schemes such as new irrigation projects, replacement of groundwater with surface sources, and the diversion of water from farms to other users. Marginal changes, such as supplementary supplies to an existing water system, or ...
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... marginal cost of abatement is equal to the marginal social cost of pollution emissions , which is in turn equal to the level of the optimal Pigovian tax required to maximize welfare . Note that PB = UB / Uc is the price that a utility ...
... marginal cost of abatement is equal to the marginal social cost of pollution emissions , which is in turn equal to the level of the optimal Pigovian tax required to maximize welfare . Note that PB = UB / Uc is the price that a utility ...
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... marginal social cost of pollution emissions . This measure therefore includes depreciation and foreign savings ( exports minus imports ) , effects that were ignored in the formal model presented above . Measuring Genuine Savings Pearce ...
... marginal social cost of pollution emissions . This measure therefore includes depreciation and foreign savings ( exports minus imports ) , effects that were ignored in the formal model presented above . Measuring Genuine Savings Pearce ...
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... marginal cost pricing a sufficient , as well as a necessary , condition for sustainable water use ? Is the opportunity cost of water of any practical relevance ? What is the point of estimating the value of water in different uses , and ...
... marginal cost pricing a sufficient , as well as a necessary , condition for sustainable water use ? Is the opportunity cost of water of any practical relevance ? What is the point of estimating the value of water in different uses , and ...
Contents
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Labour Force Analysis as a Means to Understand the Livelihood | 50 |
A Grand Illusion? | 83 |
Recent Trends and Prospects | 103 |
Towards Sustainable Pastoral | 129 |
In Pursuit of Sustainable | 144 |
Global Processes and the Politics of Sustainable Development | 169 |
Chile and Jamaica | 197 |
Pollution Patterns in the Industrialization Process | 220 |
Social Change and Environment | 247 |
Taking Stock | 296 |
Subject Index | 309 |
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