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Record Nr.

UNINA9910222224403321

Autore

Ekins Paul

Titolo

Economic growth human welfare and environmental sustainability : the prospects for green growth / / Paul Ekins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-134-68939-X

0-203-01175-9

1-134-68940-3

1-280-33374-X

0-203-15880-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (387 p.)

Disciplina

333.715

338.9

Soggetti

Sustainable development

Economic development - Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; Perceptions of environmental scarcity; Wealth creation: distinguishing between production, welfare, growth and development; The concept of environmental sustainability; Accounting for production and the environment; Population, affluence, technology and environmental impacts; Review and critique of the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis; The dividends from environmental taxation; Decision making and the costs related to climate change

Sustainability and sulphur emissions: the case of the UK, 1970  2010Conclusions; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A key area of public policy in the last twenty years is the question of how, and how much, to protect vthe environment. At the heart of this has been the heated debate over the nature of the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability. Is environemental sustainability economic growth or `green growth', a contradiction in terms? Avoiding the confusion that often surrounds these issues, Ekins



provides rigorous expositions of the concept of sustainability, integrated environmental and economic accounting, the Environmental Kuznets Curve, the economics of climate chan