Quantitative eco-nomics (Record no. 6229)
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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 7308 |
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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 080715s2008 ne a sb 001 0 eng d |
| 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 |
| 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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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Main TEST | RTC Library | RTC Library | Main opac | 27/11/2018 | 11261 | 333.7 BAR | 30011098 | 27/11/2018 | 27/11/2018 | Main |