Sustainable development indicators in ecological economics
Erschienen:
c2006
Verlag:
Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, U.K
'This book presents a comprehensive collection of essays from some of the world's leading experts, surveying and highlighting both the potential and the limitations of a number of indicators specifically designed to measure sustainable development....
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'This book presents a comprehensive collection of essays from some of the world's leading experts, surveying and highlighting both the potential and the limitations of a number of indicators specifically designed to measure sustainable development. Illustrative applications are presented throughout in order to demonstrate the value of the approaches discussed. This book is highly recommended for all those who are interested in a better understanding of what sustainable development is and its likely associated indicators, and ultimately aims to contribute to a better foundation for public decis
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Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Sustainable development: concept and indicators; 3. The economic rationale for green accounting; 4. Environmental accounting and policy making; 5. Estimating the economic impacts of climate change by means of green accounting; 6. A critical appraisal of genuine savings as an indicator of sustainability; 7. An assessment of alternative measures of sustainable economic welfare; 8. Policy implications of the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare: Thailand as a case study; 9. Some constructive criticisms of the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare
10. Measurement of the natural capital stock: conceptual foundations and preliminary empirics11. Indicators and measures of critical natural capital; 12. Ecological Footprint accounts for advancing sustainability: measuring human demands on nature; 13. Managing for sustainability: ecological footprints, ecosystem health and the Forest Capital Index; 14. Sustainability scenarios as interpretive frameworks for indicators of human-environment interaction; 15. Getting the most out of eco-efficiency indicators for policy
16. Eco-efficiency indicators applied to Australia and their policy relevance17. Material flow-based indicators for evaluation of eco-efficiency and dematerialisation policies; 18. Sustainable development indicators and human needs; 19. Selecting headline indicators for tracking progress to sustainability in a nation state; Index
