Blueprint for a Green Economy

The most influential account available of the policies needed to achieve sustainability in a national economy. A winner of the Guiseppe Mazzoti prize for literature, it is widely referred to by policy makers throughout the world, and has been adopted as a student text on a number of courses.

Preface

xii

Introduction

1

(27)

The idea of sustainable development

1

(2)

Sustainable development as a bequest to the future

3

(1)

Economy and environment

4

(1)

Valuing the environment

5

(2)

Anticipatory and reactive environmental policy

7

(4)

The challenge of global pollution

11

(4)

Natural adaptation

15

(1)

Policy response

16

(2)

Summarizing the sustainable development approach to environmental policy

18

(1)

Growth versus the environment?

19

(9)

The Meaning of Sustainable Development

28

(23)

Economic development, development and economic growth

29

(1)

Environment, development and growth

30

(2)

Sustainable development

32

(1)

Sustainable development and the environment

33

(1)

Sustainable development as non-declining wealth

34

(3)

Sustainable development as non-declining natural wealth

37

(3)

Sustainability as resilience

40

(3)

Various meanings of constant capital stock

43

(2)

Importing and exporting sustainability

45

(2)

Conclusions on the meaning of sustainable development

47

(4)

Valuing the Environment

51

(42)

Economics and environmental values

51

(4)

The uses of monetary measures

55

(2)

Monetary value of national environmental damage and benefits

57

(3)

Total economic value

60

(3)

Total economic value and decision-making

63

(1)

Direct and indirect valuation

63

(1)

The hedonic price approach

64

(3)

Examples of hedonic price estimates of environmental quality

67

(2)

Contingent valuation

69

(2)

Travel-cost approaches

71

(4)

More on existence value

75

(2)

Empirical measures of option and existence value

77

(3)

Conclusions on valuing the environment

80

(13)

Annex: Difficulties in the Application of Estimation Techniques

82

(11)

Accounting for the Environment

93

(27)

Environmental accounting: the physical approach

95

(10)

Environmental accounting: the monetary approach

105

(8)

Environmental accounting: a physical or monetary approach?

113

(3)

The treatment of environmental accounts in the United Kingdom

116

(1)

Conclusions and recommendations

117

(3)

Project Appraisal

120

(12)

The basic analytics of project appraisal

120

(2)

Valuing environmental damage

122

(5)

An additional approach to project appraisal: integrating sustainability into cost-benefit analysis

127

(2)

Conclusions

129

(3)

Discounting the Future

132

(21)

The nature of discounting

132

(3)

Discounting and the environment

135

(1)

The environmentalist critique of discounting

136

(7)

Conclusions on ``environmental critiques'' of discounting

143

(1)

Discounting and natural resources

144

(1)

Should discount rates be adjusted because of environmental concern?

145

(6)

Conclusions

151

(2)

Prices and Incentives for Environmental Improvement

153

(33)

Levels of the economy at which sustainable development incentives are required

153

(1)

Markets and prices

154

(2)

The proper pricing of products and services

156

(1)

Making the polluter pay

156

(2)

Who is the polluter?

158

(2)

Sustainable development and the PPP

160

(1)

What are market-based incentives?

161

(1)

A carbon tax

162

(5)

The proper pricing of natural resources

167

(1)

Integrative environmental policy and market-based incentives

167

(1)

Incentives and energy conservation

168

(2)

Conclusions on pricing for sustainable development

170

(16)

Annex: Sustainable Development---A Gallery of Definitions

173

(13)

Index

186

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

FREE SHIPPING

Rent More, Save More! Use code: BBRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

Blueprint for a Green Economy

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

FREE SHIPPING

Rent More, Save More! Use code: BBRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

Blueprint for a Green Economy

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

Digital License