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Handbook of Sustainable Development
Second Edition
Edited by Giles Atkinson, Simon Dietz, Eric Neumayer and Matthew Agarwala
This timely and important Handbook takes stock of progress made in our understanding of what sustainable development actually is and how it can be measured and achieved.
Handbook
- Published in print:
- 26 Sep 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781782544692
- eISBN:
- 9781782544708
- Pages:
- 624
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- Handbook of Sustainable Development
- Copyright
- Contents
- Editors
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Comprehensive wealth accounting and sustainable development
- Chapter 3: Sustainable development in ecological economics
- Chapter 4: Strong sustainability and critical natural capital
- Chapter 5: Ecosystems as assets
- Chapter 6: Ecological and social resilience
- Chapter 7: Ethics and sustainable development: the virtues of an adaptive approach to environmental choice
- Chapter 8: Equitable intergenerational preferences and sustainability
- Chapter 9: Evaluating impacts in the distant future: cost–benefit analysis, discounting and the alternatives
- Chapter 10: Weak sustainability, conservation and precaution
- Chapter 11: Distribution, sustainability and environmental policy
- Chapter 12: Environmental justice and sustainability
- Chapter 13: Vulnerability, poverty and sustaining well-being
- Chapter 14: Human wellbeing and sustainability: interdependent and intertwined
- Chapter 15: Green growth
- Chapter 16: Economic growth and the environment
- Chapter 17: The resource curse and sustainable development
- Chapter 18: Sustainable consumption
- Chapter 19: Population and sustainability
- Chapter 20: Technological lock-in and the role of innovation
- Chapter 21: Environmental accounting
- Chapter 22: Genuine saving as an indicator of sustainability
- Chapter 23: Measuring sustainable economic welfare
- Chapter 24: Ecological Footprint accounts
- Chapter 25: International trade and sustainable development
- Chapter 26: International environmental cooperation
- Chapter 27: The international politics of sustainable development
- Chapter 28: Financing for sustainable development
- Chapter 29: Climate change adaptation: a risk-management approach
- Chapter 30: Linking climate change mitigation research to sustainable development
- Chapter 31: Sustainable development of water resources
- Chapter 32: Sustainable agriculture
- Chapter 33: Sustainable energy policy
- Chapter 34: Sustainable cities and local sustainability
- Chapter 35: Corporate social responsibility, sustainability and the governance of business
- Index
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- Published:
- 26 September 2014
- Category:
- Handbook Chapter
- Pages:
- xxix–xxx (2 total)
Collection:
Economics 2014
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- Handbook of Sustainable Development
- Copyright
- Contents
- Editors
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Comprehensive wealth accounting and sustainable development
- Chapter 3: Sustainable development in ecological economics
- Chapter 4: Strong sustainability and critical natural capital
- Chapter 5: Ecosystems as assets
- Chapter 6: Ecological and social resilience
- Chapter 7: Ethics and sustainable development: the virtues of an adaptive approach to environmental choice
- Chapter 8: Equitable intergenerational preferences and sustainability
- Chapter 9: Evaluating impacts in the distant future: cost–benefit analysis, discounting and the alternatives
- Chapter 10: Weak sustainability, conservation and precaution
- Chapter 11: Distribution, sustainability and environmental policy
- Chapter 12: Environmental justice and sustainability
- Chapter 13: Vulnerability, poverty and sustaining well-being
- Chapter 14: Human wellbeing and sustainability: interdependent and intertwined
- Chapter 15: Green growth
- Chapter 16: Economic growth and the environment
- Chapter 17: The resource curse and sustainable development
- Chapter 18: Sustainable consumption
- Chapter 19: Population and sustainability
- Chapter 20: Technological lock-in and the role of innovation
- Chapter 21: Environmental accounting
- Chapter 22: Genuine saving as an indicator of sustainability
- Chapter 23: Measuring sustainable economic welfare
- Chapter 24: Ecological Footprint accounts
- Chapter 25: International trade and sustainable development
- Chapter 26: International environmental cooperation
- Chapter 27: The international politics of sustainable development
- Chapter 28: Financing for sustainable development
- Chapter 29: Climate change adaptation: a risk-management approach
- Chapter 30: Linking climate change mitigation research to sustainable development
- Chapter 31: Sustainable development of water resources
- Chapter 32: Sustainable agriculture
- Chapter 33: Sustainable energy policy
- Chapter 34: Sustainable cities and local sustainability
- Chapter 35: Corporate social responsibility, sustainability and the governance of business
- Index