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Weak versus strong sustainability : exploring the limits of two opposing paradigms

Title
Weak versus strong sustainability : exploring the limits of two opposing paradigms / Eric Neumayer.
Author
Neumayer, Eric, 1970-
Publication
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2003.

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Description
xviii, 271 pages; 25 cm
Summary
"For the most part, requiring only a basic knowledge and understanding of economics, this accessible book will ensure the important theoretical and empirical debates surrounding sustainable development are available for a wide audience including undergraduate and postgraduate students of environmental and ecological economics. It will also be of interest to researchers and policymakers involved in the sustainable management of environmental resources."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Sustainable development
  • Economic development > Environmental aspects
  • Neoclassical school of economics
  • sustainable development
  • Nachhaltigkeit
  • Umweltbewusstsein
  • Wirtschaftsentwicklung
  • Duurzame ontwikkeling
  • Nachhaltige Entwicklung
  • Umweltbewusstsein
  • Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction and Overview -- 2. Sustainable Development: Conceptual, Ethical and Paradigmatic Issues -- 3. Resources, the Environment and Economic Growth: Why Both Paradigms of Sustainability Are Non-Falsifiable -- 4. Preserving Natural Capital in a World of Risk, Uncertainty and Ignorance -- 5. Measuring Weak Sustainability -- 6. Measuring Strong Sustainability -- 7. Conclusions -- App. 1. How present-value maximisation can lead to extinction -- App. 2. The Hotelling rule and Ramsey rule in a simple general equilibrium model -- App. 3. The Hotelling rule and the Ramsey rule in a more complex model -- App. 4. Genuine savings accounting in World Bank (2002) -- App. 5. Regional country grouping in World Bank (2002).
ISBN
  • 1843764881
  • 9781843764885
  • 1845422155
  • 9781845422158
LCCN
  • 2003054734
  • 9781843764885
OCLC
  • ocm52341536
  • 52341536
  • SCSB-1308805
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library