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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814164103321

Autore

Barbier Edward B. <1957-, >

Titolo

A new blueprint for a green economy / / Edward B. Barbier and Anil Markandya

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-22217-0

0-203-09729-7

1-136-22218-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MarkandyaAnil <1945->

PearceDavid W (David William)

Disciplina

333.7

Soggetti

Economic development - Environmental aspects

Sustainable development

Environmental impact charges

Environmental policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Update to: Blueprint for a green economy / a report by David Pearce, Anil Markandya, Edward B. Barbier for the UK Department of the Environment. 1989.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Blueprint for a green economy in the 21st century -- Sustainable development -- Progress in valuing the environment -- Accounting for the environment and sustainability -- Progress in prices and incentives for environmental improvement -- Towards a green global economy -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Published in 1989, Blueprint for a Green Economy presented, for the first time, practical policy measures for 'greening' modern economies and putting them on a path to sustainable development. This new book, written by two of the Blueprint for a Green Economy authors, revisits and updates its main messages by asking, first, what has been achieved in the past twenty years, and second, what more needs to be done to generate a truly 'green economy' in the twenty-first century? Blueprint for a Green Economy had one over-arching theme. Making economies more sust