Economic growth and environmental sustainability : the prospects for green growth / / Paul Ekins
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| Autore: |
Ekins Paul
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| Titolo: |
Economic growth and environmental sustainability : the prospects for green growth / / Paul Ekins
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (387 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 333.715 |
| 338.9 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Sustainable development |
| Economic development - Environmental aspects | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Economic growth and environmental sustainability |
| ISBN: | 1-134-68939-X |
| 0-203-01175-9 | |
| 1-134-68940-3 | |
| 1-280-33374-X | |
| 0-203-15880-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910222224403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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