Sustainable Development: Concepts, Rationalities and Strategies - Economy & Environment 1998 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Editors' Introduction; S. Faucheux, et al. The Implications of Environmental Sustainability for Economic Growth; P. Ekins, M. Jacobs. Ecological Distribution and Distributed Sustainability; M. O'Connor, J. Martinez-Alier. Bioeconomic Conceptions and the Concept of Sustainable Development; F.-D. Vivien. Sustainable Development and Public Policy; J. van der Straaten. The Political Economics of Sustainability; P. Soderbaum. Rational Assumptions in Energy Scenarios; B. Olerup. Short-run and Long-run Adjustment to Environmental Policy: a Neo-Austrian Approach; G. Stephan. Sustainability and Structural Change; I. Ropke. Sustainability Concepts and Total Economic Valuation; J. W. Milon. A Practical Sustainability Criterion when there is International Trade; J. L. R. Proops, G. Atkinson. How Strong is Weak Sustainability? P. Victor, et al. Sustainability Principles and Depreciation Estimates of Natural Capital In Brazil; R. Seroa Da Motta. Environmental Decision Making: A Comparison between Cost-Benefit Analysis and Multicriteria Decision Aid; G. Munda, et al. Sustainability, Uncertainty and Intergenerational Fairness; R. B. Howarth. Sustainable Development, Rationality and Time; A. Vercelli. Towards a Decision-Making Framework to Address Sustainable Development Issues; G. Froger, E. Zyla. Sustainable Development and the Process of Justifying Choices in a Controversial Universe; O. Godard. Index."Publisher Marketing: The text contains 17 chapters, written by analysts coming from many continents, which portray late 1990s state-of-the-art in ecological economics thinking on sustainable development. The selection of methodological contributions, illustrated by empirical observations, highlights how a new generation of economists is confronting new problems of irreversible environmental change, uncertainty and social equity in the long-term.

Contributor Bio:  O'Connor, Martin Martin O'Connor, a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, specializes in the fields of environment, development, and social sciences epistemology. He holds research degrees in physics, sociology, development/philosophy, and economics.