Quantitative eco-nomics (Record no. 6229)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
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006 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--ADDITIONAL MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS
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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2007943326
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 1402069650
International Standard Book Number 1402069669
International Standard Book Number 9781402069659
International Standard Book Number 9781402069666 (e-isbn)
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Bartelmus, Peter
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Quantitative eco-nomics
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title how sustainable are our economies? /
Statement of responsibility, etc. by Peter Bartelmus
246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title Quantitative economics
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Dordrecht ;
-- London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Springer,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2008
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Part I: Questions, Questions, Questions.- 1. What on Earth is wrong?- 1:1 Paradise lost.- 1:2 Environmental doomsday and international reaction.- 1:3 Reaching the limits?- 2. What's economics got to do with it?- 2:1 Economics out of sync?- 2:2 Schools of eco-nomic thought.- 2:3 Economic sustainability: maintaining capital and welfare.- 2:4 Ecological sustainability: dematerialisation.- 3. Sustainable development - blueprint or fig Leaf?- 3:1 What is development?- 3:2 Towards an operational definition of sustainable development.- 3:3 Normative economics for sustainable development?- Part II: Assessing the Physical Base of the Economy.- 4. Statistics and indicators.- 4:1 Statistical frameworks.- 4:2 From statistics to indicators `for' sustainable development.- 4:3 Global warming: the indicator `of' (non)sustainable development?- 5. Aggregation: From indicators to indices.- 5:1 Aggregation methods.- 5:2 Indices of environmental sustainability and sustainable development.- 5:3 Critique: towards a `balanced' approach.- 6. Energy and material flow accounting.- 6:1 Rationale: social metabolism and environmental sustainability.- 6:2 Energy accounting.- 6:3 Material flow accounting.- Part III: Greening the Economic Accounts.- 7. Linking the physical and monetary accounts.- 7:1 Measures of economic welfare and wealth.- 7:2 Extending the national accounts: incorporating nature's assets.- 7:3 Hybrid accounts: expanding the production boundary.- 8. SEEA - the System for Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting.- 8:1 Pricing the priceless.- 8:2 SEEA objectives, structure and indicators.- 8:3 Case studies.- 8:4 SEEA revision.- 9. Corporate accounting: accounting for accountability.- 9:1 From accountability to accounting.- 9:2 From accounting to management.- Part IV: Analysis - Modelling Sustainability.- 10. Diagnosis: has the economy behaved sustainably?- 10:1 Welfare secured? Dematerialised? Capital maintained?- 10:2 What are the causes? Structural analysis of environmental impact.- 11. Prediction: will economic growth be sustainable?- 11:1 Econometrics: the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis.- 11:2 Simulation of non-sustainability: the Limits-to-Growth model.- 12. Policy analysis: can we make growth sustainable?- 12:1 Environmental policy measures in general equilibrium and input-output analysis.- 12:2 Environmental constraints and optimality - a linear programming approach.- 12:3 Dynamic analysis: optimality and sustainability of economic growth.- Part V: Strategic Outlook.- 13. Strategies: tackling the limits to growth.- 13:1 Ignoring the limits: muddling through.- 13:2 Complying with limits: curbing economic activity.- 13:3 Pushing the limits: eco-efficiency.- 13:4 Adopting limits: sufficiency, corporate social responsibility, environmental ethics.- 14. Globalisation and global governance.- 14:1 Sustainability effects of globalisation.- 14:2 Global governance for sustainable development.- 15. Questions, questions, questions - and some answers.- 15:1 What's the problem?- 15:2 What's economics got to do with it?- 15:3 How bad is it?- 15:4 What can be done?- 15:5 Some non-conclusive answers.- Annexes.- I. Market failure and environmental cost internalisation - a primer.- II. Economic rent and natural resource depletion.- III. SEEA Germany - a pilot case study.- References.- Index.- Colour Plates.
Miscellaneous information
Statement of responsibility
Title
506 ## - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE
Terms governing access Available to OhioLINK libraries
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. This thought-provoking and colorful book cuts through the fog of vision and advocacy by comparing and applying new quantitative tools of both environmental and ecological economics. Environmental accounts and empirical analyses provide operational concepts and measures of the sustainability of economic performance and growth.
533 ## - REPRODUCTION NOTE
Type of reproduction Electronic reproduction.
Place of reproduction Berlin :
Agency responsible for reproduction Springer,
Date of reproduction 2008.
Note about reproduction System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader and Internet browser; text in HTML and PDF.
-- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
-- Title from title screen; description based on content as of Aug. 7, 2008.
-- Access restricted to subscribing institution.
-- Also available in print
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Environmental economics
Topical term or geographic name entry element Environmental economics
General subdivision Mathematical models
Topical term or geographic name entry element Sustainable development
Topical term or geographic name entry element Sustainable development
General subdivision Mathematical models
655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
Source of term local
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Serial Enumeration / chronology Inventory number Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
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