05170nam a2200313   45000010005000000060011000050080041000160100015000570200015000720200015000870200018001020200027001201000021001472450111001682460027002792600043003065040050003495053429003995060036038285200337038645330324042016500028045256500049045536500028046026500049046306550029046799990015047089520133047237308m        d080715s2008    ne a    sb    001 0 eng d  a2007943326  a1402069650  a1402069669  a9781402069659  a9781402069666 (e-isbn)1 aBartelmus, Peter10aQuantitative eco-nomicsh[electronic resource] :bhow sustainable are our economies? /cby Peter Bartelmus3 aQuantitative economics  aDordrecht ;aLondon :bSpringer,c2008  aIncludes bibliographical references and index  aPart 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.grt  aAvailable to OhioLINK libraries  aThis 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.  aElectronic reproduction.bBerlin :cSpringer,d2008.nSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader and Internet browser; text in HTML and PDF.nMode of access: World Wide Web.nTitle from title screen; description based on content as of Aug. 7, 2008.nAccess restricted to subscribing institution.nAlso available in print 0aEnvironmental economics 0aEnvironmental economicsxMathematical models 0aSustainable development 0aSustainable developmentxMathematical models 7aElectronic books.2local  c6229d6229  00102ddc40708MAINaRTCLIBbRTCLIBcMAINd2018-11-27h i11261l0o333.7 BARp30011098r2018-11-27 00:00:00w2018-11-27yMAIN