Paul Ekins

Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability

The Prospects for Green Growth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ekins breaks new ground in defining the conditions of compatibility between economic growth and environmental sustainabilty, and provides measures and criteria by which the environmental sustainabilty of economic growth can be judged.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9780415173322
• ISBN-10: 0415173329
• Artikelnr.: 22091019

Autorenporträt

Paul Ekins is Reader in Environmental Policy in the Department of Environmental Studies, Keele University and a Programme Director of the sustainable development charity Forum for the Future, directing its Sustainable Economy Programme. He is the author of numerous books, including A New World Order (1992) and editor, with M. MaxNeef, of Real-Life Economics (1992). In 1994 he received the United Nations Environmental Programme Global 500 Award 'for outstanding environmental achievement'.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Perceptions of Environmental Scarcity 3. Wealth
Creation: Distinguishing between Production, Welfare, Growth and
Development 4. The Concept of Environmental Sustainability 5. Accounting
for Production and the Environment 6. Population, Affluence, Technology and
Environmental Impacts 7. Review and Critique of the Environmental Kuznets
Curve Hypothesis 8. The Dividends from Environmental Taxation 9.
Decision-Making and the Costs Related to Climate Change 10. Sustainability
and Sulphur Emissions: The Case of the UK, 1970-2010 11. Conclusions