Weak versus strong sustainability: exploring the limits of two opposing paradigms
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Beteilige Person: Neumayer, Eric 1970- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cheltenham Edward Elgar 2013
Ausgabe:4th edition
Schlagwörter:
Links:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=495730
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=495730
Beschreibung:Previous edition: 2010
Includes bibliographical references and index
2.1.Definitions, assumptions, methodology -- 2.2.The ethics of sustainable development -- 2.2.1.Reasons for committing to sustainable development -- 2.2.2.The time-inconsistency problem of sustainable development -- 2.2.3.Two misunderstandings about sustainable development resolved -- 2.3.Weak versus strong sustainability -- 2.3.1.The paradigm of weak sustainability -- 2.3.2.The paradigm of strong sustainability -- 2.4.The importance of the substitutability assumption: the case of climate change -- 2.4.1.The Nordhaus approach towards climate change -- 2.4.2.Critique of the Nordhaus approach (I): discounting the future -- 2.4.3.Critique of the Nordhaus approach (II): extreme outcomes -- 2.4.4.Critique of the Nordhaus approach (III): substitutability of natural capital -- 2.4.5.The real controversy -- 2.5.Conclusion -- 3.1.A short history of resource and environmental concern -- 3.2.Resource availability -- 3.2.1.Substitution with other resources
3.2.2.The role of prices in overcoming resource constraints -- 3.2.3.Substitution with man-made capital -- 3.2.4.Technical progress -- 3.3.Environmental degradation -- 3.3.1.Can future generations be compensated for long-term environmental degradation? -- 3.3.2.Economic growth and the environment -- 3.4.Conclusion -- 4.1.Distinctive features of natural capital -- 4.2.Risk, uncertainty and ignorance -- 4.3.Coping with risk, uncertainty and ignorance -- 4.3.1.Option and quasi-option values -- 4.3.2.The precautionary principle -- 4.3.3.Safe minimum standards (SMSs) -- 4.4.Which forms of natural capital should be preserved? -- 4.5.The problem of opportunity cost -- 4.6.Conclusion -- 5.1.Genuine savings (GS) -- 5.1.1.GS in a closed economy: a dynamic optimisation model -- 5.1.2.GS in an open economy -- 5.1.3.Problems with measuring GS in practice -- 5.1.4.GS in practice: the World Bank's computations
5.2.Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) and Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) -- 5.2.1.A review of ISEW and GPI studies -- 5.2.2.Methodological problems -- 5.3.Conclusion -- 6.1.Physical indicators -- 6.1.1.Ecological footprints: measuring sustainability by land area -- 6.1.2.Material flows: measuring sustainability by weight -- 6.2.Hybrid indicators -- 6.2.1.The starting point: Hueting's pioneering work -- 6.2.2.Sustainability gaps -- 6.2.3.Greened National Statistical and Modelling Procedures -- 6.2.4.'Sustainable national income according to Hueting' -- 6.2.5.Critical assessment -- 6.3.Conclusion
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:1781007071
178100708X
1781007098
9781781007075
9781781007082
9781781007099