Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability [Elektronisk resurs] The Prospects for Green Growth / Paul Ekins.

• Introduction -- Perceptions of environmental scarcity -- Wealth creation -- The concept of environmental sustainability -- Accounting for production and the environment -- Population, affluence, technology and environmental impacts -- Review and critique of the Environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis -- The dividends from environmental taxation -- Decision making and the costs related to climate change -- Sustainability and sulphur emissions: the case of the UK, 1970–2010 -- Conclusions. 

• A key area of public policy in the last twenty years is the question of how, and how much, to protect the environment. At the heart of this has been the heated debate over the nature of the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability. Is environemental sustainability economic growth or `green growth', a contradiction in terms? Avoiding the confusion that often surrounds these issues, Ekins provides rigorous expositions of the concept of sustainability, integrated environmental and economic accounting, the Environmental Kuznets Curve, the economics of climate change and environmental taxation. Individual chapters are organised as self-contained, state-of-the-art expositions of the core issues of environmental economics, with extensive cross-referencing from one chapter to another, in order to guide the student or policy-maker through these complex problems. Paul Ekins breaks new ground in defining the conditions of compatibility between economic growth and environmental sustainability, and provides measures and criteria by which the environmental sustainability of economic growth, as it occurs in the real world, may be judged. It is argued that `green growth' is not only theoretically possible but economically achievable and the authors show what environmental and economic policies are required to achieve this. Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability will be welcomed by students of and researchers in environmental economics and environmental studies, as well as all interested policy-makers. 

Ämnesord

Sustainable development  (LCSH)

Economic development  -- Environmental aspects (LCSH)

Business and Economics -- Business and Economics -- Economic Assistance and Development 

Klassifikation

338.9 (DDC)

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