Quantitative Eco-nomics: How sustainable are our economies?Springer Science & Business Media, 2008 M04 19 - 329 pages “Quantitative Eco-nomics” cuts through the fog of vision and advocacy by comparing and applying new quantitative tools of both environmental and ecological economics. Environmental accounts and empirical analyses provide operational concepts and measures of the sustainability of economic performance and growth. They facilitate rational and compatible environmental and economic policies. This thought-provoking text raises doubts, however, about the measurability of sustainable development. Has the paradigm run its course? The answer is a guarded ‘yes’ – guarded because the concept still carries considerable environmental goodwill. At the same time the opaque concept fosters contradictory policy advice, or worse, inaction. Do we need zero- or accelerated economic growth? Should we reduce conspicuous consumption or enjoy spending as we see fit? Will rules and regulation or adjusted markets prevent environmental disaster? |
Contents
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Questions Questions Questions | 15 |
Whats Economics Got to Do with It? 17 | 16 |
1 Environmenteconomy interaction and effects | 19 |
2 EKC hypothesis | 26 |
3 Getting physical or monetary? | 28 |
3 Total wealth and its composition 2000 | 132 |
SEEA The System for Integrated Environmental | 141 |
1 SEEA structure and indicators | 149 |
2 ECF in selected countries of NDP | 157 |
1 Life cycle of jeans | 173 |
1 ISO 14000 standards for environmental management | 176 |
Further Reading | 178 |
No threshold in Italy? | 184 |
3 Tragedy of the commons | 34 |
Sustainable Development Blueprint or Fig Leaf? | 43 |
Everything related | 55 |
Assessing the Physical Base of the Economy | 61 |
1 Overlap and interaction in international statistical systems | 64 |
3 Real world and statistical systems | 70 |
1 Projected surface temperature increase in the 21st century | 82 |
From Indicators to Indices | 87 |
Barometer of sustainability | 96 |
2 Ecological footprint | 99 |
Energy and Material Flow Accounting | 105 |
1 Simplified emergy accounting system | 110 |
3 Material flows through the economy | 115 |
2 Material flow balance of the European | 117 |
Greening the Economic Accounts | 125 |
3 Direct and total CO2 emission coefficients Sweden 1991 | 191 |
Will Economic | 197 |
Further Reading | 208 |
Can We Make | 211 |
A Linear Programming Approach | 218 |
Further Reading | 226 |
coffee and mushroom production | 237 |
Globalization and Global Governance | 251 |
Market Failure and Environmental Cost Internalization | 275 |
1 Internalizing environmental damage | 279 |
Economic Rent and Natural Resource Depletion | 283 |
Index | 309 |
Colour Plates | 317 |
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