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| Questions, Questions, Questions | |
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| What on Earth is Wrong? | |
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| Paradise Lost | |
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| Environmental Doomsday and International Reaction | |
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| Reaching the Limits? | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Review and Exploration | |
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| What's Economics Got to Do with It? | |
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| Economics Out of Sync? | |
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| Schools of Eco-nomic Thought | |
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| A Historical Overview | |
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| From Mainstream Economics to Deep Ecology | |
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| Ecological Versus Environmental Economics | |
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| Economic Sustainability: Maintaining Capital and Welfare | |
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| Environmental Macroeconomics: Assessing the Sustainability of Economic Growth | |
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| Environmental Microeconomics: Cost Internalization, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Optimal Use of Natural Resources | |
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| Ecological Sustainability: Dematerialization | |
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| Carrying Capacity, Ecosystem Resilience and Environmental Space | |
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| Material Throughput and Dematerialization | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Review and Exploration | |
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| Sustainable Development - Blueprint or Fig Leaf? | |
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| What is Development? | |
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| Goals and Decades of Development | |
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| Which Countries Are Developing? | |
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| Towards an Operational Definition of Sustainable Development | |
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| Cornucopia from Sustainable Development? | |
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| From Sustainability to Feasibility of Development | |
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| Local (Eco-)Development | |
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| Normative Economics for Sustainable Development? | |
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| Co-evolutionary Economics | |
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| Has the Paradigm Run Its Course? | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Review and Exploration | |
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| Assessing the Physical Base of the Economy | |
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| Statistics and Indicators | |
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| Statistical Frameworks | |
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| A Framework for Environment Statistics | |
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| Integrating Economic, Environmental and Social/Demographic Statistics | |
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| From Statistics to Indicators 'for' Sustainable Development | |
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| Indicator Selection: Reducing Information Overload | |
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| A Framework for Sustainable Development Indicators | |
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| Indicator Use: Alert, Action or Evaluation? | |
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| Global Warming: The Indicator 'of' (Non)Sustainable Development? | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Review and Exploration | |
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| Aggregation: From Indicators to Indices | |
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| Aggregation Methods | |
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| Judgemental Methods of Indicator Evaluation | |
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| Mathematical Tools of Information Reduction | |
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| Scientific Criteria of Aggregation | |
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| Empirical (Commensurable) Weighting | |
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| Indicator Averages | |
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| Indices of Environmental Sustainability and Sustainable Development | |
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| Sustainable Development Index (SDI) and Human Development Index (HDI) | |
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| Well-Being Index (WI) | |
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| Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) | |
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| Ecological Footprint (EF) | |
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| Critique: Towards a 'Balanced' Approach | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Review and Exploration | |
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| Energy and Material Flow Accounting | |
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| Rationale: Social Metabolism and Environmental Sustainability | |
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| Energy Accounting | |
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| Exergy Accounting | |
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| Emergy Accounting | |
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| Energy Theory of Value | |
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| Material Flow Accounting | |
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| Concepts, Methods and Indicators | |
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| Results | |
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| Critique: Ton Ideology, Early Warning or Policy Guide? | |
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| Physical Input-Output Tables | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Review and Exploration | |
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| Greening the Economic Accounts | |
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| Linking the Physical and Monetary Accounts | |
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| Measures of Economic Welfare and Wealth | |
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| Welfare Indicators | |
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| Comprehensive Wealth Measures | |
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| Extending the National Accounts: Incorporating Nature's Assets | |
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| Hybrid Accounts: Expanding the Production Boundary | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Review and Exploration | |
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| SEEA - The System for Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting | |
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| Pricing the Priceless | |
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| Market Valuation of Depletion and Degradation | |
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| Maintenance Costing of Environmental Degradation | |
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| Contingent and Related Damage Valuation | |
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| SEEA Objectives, Structure and Indicators | |
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| Accounting for Sustainability | |
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| Environmentally Adjusted Macroeconomic Indicators | |
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| Accounting for Policy Performance | |
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| Case Studies | |
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| SEEA Revision | |
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| Accounting for Economic Sustainability? | |
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| Accounting for Ecological Sustainability? | |
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| Revising the Revision | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Review and Exploration | |
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| Corporate Accounting: Accounting for Accountability | |
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| From Accountability to Accounting | |
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| Corporate Social Responsibility | |
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| Getting Physical or Monetary? | |
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| Micro-Macro Link | |
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| From Accounting to Management | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Review and Exploration | |
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| Analysis-Modelling Sustainability | |
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| Diagnosis: Has the Economy Behaved Sustainably? | |
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| Welfare Secured? Dematerialized? Capital Maintained? | |
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| Welfare Indices: Confirming the Threshold Hypothesis? | |
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| Dematerialization: Delinkage of Economic Output and Material Input | |
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| Capital Maintenance: Has Economic Growth Been Sustainable? | |
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| What Are the Causes? Structural Analysis of Environmental Impact | |
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| Environmental-Economic Profiles | |
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| Direct and Indirect Impacts: From Accounting to Modelling | |
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| Decomposition: The Driving Forces of Environmental Impacts | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Review and Exploration | |
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| Prediction: Will Economic Growth Be Sustainable? | |
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| Econometrics: The Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis | |
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| Regression Analysis: Testing the Hypothesis | |
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| Results: Rejecting the Hypothesis? | |
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| Critique | |
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| Simulation of Non-sustainability: The Limits-to-Growth Model | |
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| Model Features and Results | |
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| Critique and Counter-critique | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Review and Exploration | |
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| Policy Analysis: Can We Make Growth Sustainable? | |
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| Environmental Policy Measures in General Equilibrium and Input-Output Analysis | |
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| Environmental Cost Internalization in the Static Leontief Model | |
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| Two Case Studies: Greened GDP in Input-Output and CGE Models | |
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| Environmental Constraints and Optimality: A Linear Programming Approach | |
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| Dynamic Analysis: Optimality and Sustainability of Economic Growth | |
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| Dynamic Linear Programming | |
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| Optimal Growth and Sustainability | |
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| Some General Conclusions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Review and Exploration | |
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| Strategic Outlook | |
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| Tackling the Limits to Growth | |
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| Ignoring the Limits: Muddling Through | |
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| Complying with Limits: Curbing Economic Activity | |
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| Pushing the Limits: Eco-Efficiency | |
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| Eco-Efficiency and Resource Productivity | |
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| Categories and Efficiency of Market Instruments | |
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| From Theory to Practice: Ecological Tax Reform in Germany | |
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| Adopting Limits: Sufficiency, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Ethics | |
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| Voluntary Action: Sufficiency and Corporate Social Responsibility | |
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| The Driving Force: Environmental Ethics | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Review and Exploration | |
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| Globalization and Global Governance | |
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| Sustainability Effects of Globalization | |
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| Global Governance for Sustainable Development | |
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| Greening the WTO | |
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| Creating Countervailing Power | |
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| Towards a Global Compact? | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Review and Exploration | |
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| Questions, Questions, Questions - and Some Answers | |
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| What Is the Problem? | |
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| What Has Economics Got To Do with It? | |
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| How Bad Is It? | |
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| How Bad Has It Been? | |
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| How Bad Will It Be? | |
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| What Can Be Done? | |
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| Some Non-conclusive Answers | |
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| Annexes | |
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| Market Failure and Environmental Cost Internalization - A Primer | |
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| Market and Policy Failure | |
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| Internalizing Externalities | |
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| Economic Rent and Natural Resource Depletion | |
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| SEEA Germany - A Pilot Case Study | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| Colour Plates | |