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In this fully updated and revised edition of an original and popular text, Eric Neumayer offers an authoritative contribution to one of the most important questions concerning sustainable development: can natural capital be substituted by other forms of capital? Proponents of weak sustainability maintain that such substitutability is possible, whilst followers of strong sustainability regard natural capital as non-substitutable. This insightful book identifies the critical forms of natural capital in need of preservation and evaluates the most important indicators of weak and strong sustainability.The book explores the limits of the two opposing paradigms of sustainability in an accessible and illuminating way. The author begins by examining the availability of natural resources for the production of consumption goods and the environmental consequences of economic growth. He also identifies the critical forms of natural capital in need of preservation given risk, uncertainty and ignorance about the future, and addresses the important topic of sustainability indicators. In doing so, he analyses indicators of weak sustainability such as Genuine Savings and the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare, and indicators of strong sustainability including ecological footprints, material flows, sustainability gaps and other measures which combine the setting of environmental standards with monetary valuation. 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.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Preface to the Second Edition 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 Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Eric Neumayer, Professor of Environment and Development, Vice President (Planning and Resources), Deputy President and Vice Chancellor, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Review :
Acclaim for the first edition: 'Eric Neumayer brings light into the shadow of many debates between ecological and neoclassically oriented economists. This important book provides a new and pluralistic view on some important questions for the 21st century.' 'As a partisan in the debate that Neumayer is trying to discuss neutrally, I will not be expected to agree with everything he says - and I don't. However, the book is well worth reading because it deals, often insightfully, with a highly important topic, and the referencing is admirable. Neumayer shows that ecological and neoclassical economists really can communicate, if only by shouting, across the paradigmatic chasm that he is rightly at pains to emphasize.'


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781845422158
  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 296
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1845422155
  • Publisher Date: 26 Nov 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Exploring the Limits of Two Opposing Paradigms: Second Edition


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