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Wealth, Welfare and Sustainability

Author : K. Hamilton
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847202977
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Wealth, Welfare and Sustainability written by K. Hamilton and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book presents fresh thinking and new results on the measurement of sustainable development. Economic theory suggests that there should be a link between future wellbeing and current wealth. This book explores this linkage under a variety of headings: population growth, technological change, deforestation and natural resource trade. While the relevant theory is presented briefly, the chief emphasis is on empirical measurement of the change in real wealth: this measure of net or genuine saving is a key indicator of sustainable development. The methodological and empirical work is bolstered by tests of the predictive power of genuine saving in explaining future consumption and economic growth. Just as importantly, the authors show that many resource-abundant countries would be considerably wealthier today had they managed to save and invest the profits from natural resource exploitation in the past. Wealth, Welfare and Sustainability will be of great interest to environmental and resource economists, specialists in sustainability indicators from other disciplines and also development and growth economists.

Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare

Author : Max Koch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317407423
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare written by Max Koch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welfare is commonly conceptualized in socio-economic terms of equity, highlighting distributive issues within growing economies. While GDP, income growth and rising material standards of living are normally not questioned as priorities in welfare theories and policy making, there is growing evidence that Western welfare standards are not generalizable to the rest of the planet if environmental concerns, such as resource depletion or climate change, are considered. Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare raises the issue of what is required to make welfare societies ecologically sustainable. Consisting of three parts, this book regards the current financial, economic and political crisis in welfare state institutions and addresses methodological, theoretical and wider conceptual issues in integrating sustainability. Furthermore, this text is concerned with the main institutional obstacles to the achievement of sustainable welfare and wellbeing, and how these may feasibly be overcome. How can researchers assist policymakers in promoting synergy between economic, social and environmental policies conducive to globally sustainable welfare systems? Co-authored by a variety of cross-disciplinary contributors, a diversity of research perspectives and methods is reflected in a unique mixture of conceptual chapters, historical analysis of different societal sectors, and case studies of several EU countries, China and the US. This book is well suited for those who are interested in and study welfare, ecological economics and political economy.

WELFARE ECONOMICS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT – Volume I

Author : Yew-Kwang Ng
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
ISBN 13 : 1848260091
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book WELFARE ECONOMICS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT – Volume I written by Yew-Kwang Ng and published by EOLSS Publications. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welfare Economics and Sustainable Development theme is a component of Encyclopedia of Development and Economic Sciences in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. This theme introduces welfare economics and sustainable development in four topics dealing with four important issues to be considered in implementing sustainable development. These are: the use of ethics and discounting and economic growth models in balancing the interests of future generations against those of the present; the advantages and limitations of national accounting methodologies as means of evaluating sustainability; the international dimensions of sustainable development arising out of environmental and economic linkages among nations; and the nature of institutions required to promote sustainable development. These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

Wealth, Welfare and Sustainability

Author : Elena G. Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Wealth, Welfare and Sustainability written by Elena G. Irwin and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing concerns over climate change and the potential for large damages due to non-linear processes underscore the need for meaningful sustainability assessment of an economy. Economists have developed rigorous approaches to conceptualizing sustainability based on the paradigm of weak sustainability, which assumes infinite substitution between manufactured and natural capital stocks. In contrast, strong sustainability emphasizes physical limits to this substitution and the importance of maintaining the resilience of normally functioning biophysical processes. Recent progress in resource and environmental economics has demonstrated the feasibility of incorporating strong sustainability features, including tipping points, uncertainties and resilience, into welfare theoretic models to assess efficiency and optimal policies. Given that weak sustainability and intertemporal efficiency share the same concept of welfare, we ask: to what extent can these approaches be applied to evaluate sustainability? We highlight recent work on assessing sustainability in imperfect economies and dynamic models of intertemporal welfare that embed strong sustainability features.

Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare

Author : Max Koch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138925281
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare written by Max Koch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 9. Transitions towards degrowth and sustainable welfare: carbon emission reduction and wealth and income distribution in France, the US and China

Unveiling Wealth

Author : Peter Bartelmus
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306482215
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Unveiling Wealth written by Peter Bartelmus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does money blur perspectives for a better life? Lifting the money veil from our yardsticks of progress, income and wealth, reveals the trade-offs of economic growth. The book presents new indicators of the social, economic and ecological impacts of our lifestyles and production techniques. The indicators help to identify those responsible for these impacts and account for their accountability in terms of environmental and other ("social") costs. Sustainable development is to bring about long-term prosperity without undermining its natural foundation. For the assessment of the opaque concept we need both, physical impact measures and environmentally modified ("green") indicators of income, capital and output. Peter Bartelmus opens the dialogue between frequently hostile camps of economists and environmentalists, data producers and users, and scientists and policy makers. Together, they may steer us towards a sustainable future.

Welfare, Wealth, and Sustainability

Author : Elena G. Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Welfare, Wealth, and Sustainability written by Elena G. Irwin and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing concerns over climate change and the potential for large damages due to nonlinear processes underscore the need for a meaningful sustainability assessment of an economy. Economists have developed rigorous approaches to conceptualizing sustainability based on the paradigm of weak sustainability, which relies on extensive substitution among reproducible capital, renewable resources, and exhaustible natural resources. In contrast, strong sustainability emphasizes physical limits to this substitution and the importance of maintaining the resilience of normally functioning biophysical processes. Recent progress in resource and environmental economics has demonstrated the feasibility of incorporating strong sustainability features, including tipping points, uncertainties, and resilience, to assess efficiency and optimal policies. Given that weak sustainability and intertemporal efficiency share a welfare theoretic foundation, we ask: To what extent can these approaches be applied to evaluate sustainability? We highlight recent work on assessing sustainability in imperfect economies and dynamic models of intertemporal welfare that embed strong sustainability features.

The Cambridge Handbook of Stakeholder Theory

Author : Jeffrey S. Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107191467
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Stakeholder Theory written by Jeffrey S. Harrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive foundation for stakeholder theory, written by many of the most respected and highly cited experts in the field.

Beyond GDP

Author : Marc Fleurbaey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199346917
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Beyond GDP written by Marc Fleurbaey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of recurrent criticism and an impressive production of alternative indicators by scholars and NGOs, GDP remains the central indicator of countries' success. This book revisits the foundations of indicators of social welfare, and critically examines the four main alternatives to GDP that have been proposed: composite indicators, subjective well-being indexes, capabilities (the underlying philosophy of the Human Development Index), and equivalent incomes. Its provocative thesis is that the problem with GDP is not that it uses a monetary metric but that it focuses on a narrow set of aspects of individual lives. It is actually possible to build an alternative, more comprehensive, monetary indicator that takes income as its first benchmark and adds or subtracts corrections that represent the benefit or cost of non-market aspects of individual lives. Such a measure can respect the values and preferences of the people and give as much weight as they do to the non-market dimensions. A further provocative idea is that, in contrast, most of the currently available alternative indicators, including subjective well-being indexes, are not as respectful of people's values because, like GDP, they are too narrow and give specific weights to the various dimensions of life in a more uniform way, without taking account of the diversity of views on life in the population. The popular attraction that such alternative indicators derive from being non-monetary is therefore based on equivocation. Moreover, it is argued in this book that "greening" GDP and relative indicators is not the proper way to incorporate sustainability concerns. Sustainability involves predicting possible future paths, therefore different indicators than those assessing the current situation. While various indicators have been popular (adjusted net savings, ecological footprint), none of them involves the necessary forecasting effort that a proper evaluation of possible futures requires.

Sustaining Economic Welfare

Author : Kirk Hamilton
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustaining Economic Welfare written by Kirk Hamilton and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the notable exception of China, in most countries with below-median per capita income the growth rate of the population is greater than that of total wealth. This trend is ultimately unsustainable. For many of these countries, policies for sustainability will require both boosting savings and slowing population growth.

Beyond Growth

Author : Herman E. Daly
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807047066
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Growth written by Herman E. Daly and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Daly is turning economics inside out by putting the earth and its diminishing natural resources at the center of the field . . . a kind of reverse Copernican revolution in economics." --Utne Reader "Considered by most to be the dean of ecological economics, Herman E. Daly elegantly topples many shibboleths in Beyond Growth. Daly challenges the conventional notion that growth is always good, and he bucks environmentalist orthodoxy, arguing that the current focus on 'sustainable development' is misguided and that the phrase itself has become meaningless." --Mother Jones "In Beyond Growth, . . . [Daly] derides the concept of 'sustainable growth' as an oxymoron. . . . Calling Mr. Daly 'an unsung hero,' Robert Goodland, the World Bank's top environmental adviser, says, 'He has been a voice crying in the wilderness.'" --G. Pascal Zachary, The Wall Street Journal "A new book by that most far-seeing and heretical of economists, Herman Daly. For 25 years now, Daly has been thinking through a new economics that accounts for the wealth of nature, the value of community and the necessity for morality." --Donella H. Meadows, Los Angeles Times "For clarity of vision and ecological wisdom Herman Daly has no peer among contemporary economists. . . . Beyond Growth is essential reading." --David W. Orr, Oberlin College "There is no more basic ethical question than the one Herman Daly is asking." --Hal Kahn, The San Jose Mercury News "Daly's critiques of economic orthodoxy . . . deliver a powerful and much-needed jolt to conventional thinking." --Karen Pennar, Business Week Named one of a hundred "visionaries who could change your life" by the Utne Reader,Herman Daly is the recipient of many awards, including a Grawemeyer Award, the Heineken Prize for environmental science, and the "Alternative Nobel Prize," the Right Livelihood Award. He is professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs, and coauthor with John Cobb, Jr., of For the Common Good.

Inclusive Wealth Report 2014

Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107109620
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Inclusive Wealth Report 2014 written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in an important biennial series that provides a new framework for measuring the inclusive wealth of nations.

Common Wealth

Author : Jeffrey Sachs
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594201271
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Common Wealth written by Jeffrey Sachs and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity, with practical solutions based on a new economic paradigm for our crowded planet.

How to achieve the welfare state in the twenty-first century

Author : Kozulj, Roberto
Publisher : Editorial UNRN
ISBN 13 : 9874960159
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book How to achieve the welfare state in the twenty-first century written by Kozulj, Roberto and published by Editorial UNRN. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kozulj proposes a bold and vital idea: if the activities linked to urban development were reoriented towards the construction and reconstruction of sustainable cities, this would tend to solve a large part of the problem of structural unemployment,

The Wealth and Welfare of Nations in Change

Author : Dieter Holtmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783844052282
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book The Wealth and Welfare of Nations in Change written by Dieter Holtmann and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sustaining Prosperity, Nature and Wellbeing

Author : Peter L.P. Bartelmus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351140590
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Sustaining Prosperity, Nature and Wellbeing written by Peter L.P. Bartelmus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores what is needed for an overall evaluation of the prosperity and wellbeing of people within a framework of sustaining the economy, environment and development. The book begins by assessing the validity of available data, indicators and indices in decision and policy making. It describes what the data tell us about the effects of economic activity on the quality of life and prosperity of people and nations, now and in the future, and highlights how a reliance on partial and distorted information can thwart rational policies. It also examines whether less tangible notions of wellbeing and happiness lend themselves to quantification and prediction. Overall, Bartelmus demonstrates the need for integrated accounting and analysis to revise policy priorities around environmental, social, economic and sustainability concerns. Confronting the persisting polarization of environmentalists and economists, this book will be of great relevance to students, scholars and professionals with an interest in environmental and ecological economics, sustainability indicators and their use in integrative policy.

Environmental Policy, Sustainability and Welfare

Author : Thomas Aronsson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781955123
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Policy, Sustainability and Welfare written by Thomas Aronsson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and accessible textbook addresses important relationships between economics and environmental policy, highlighting in particular the role of taxation. It also connects environmental policy to social accounting by describing how measures of welfare and sustainable development depend on whether policies successfully internalize market failures.