Valuation for Sustainable Development: Methods and Policy IndicatorsSylvie Faucheux, Martin O'Connor This important new book develops an ecological-economics perspective on sustainability at the regional, national and international level. It explores prospects for sustainable development using methods firmly grounded in empirical reality, as well as emphasizing scientific, economic and socio-political concerns. This approach is based on the construction of non-monetary indicators for sustainability, and the application of cost-effectiveness analyses to identify robust alternatives for the achievement of specified policy norms. In calculating the requirements for sustainability the contributors attach importance to multiple criteria decision aid (MCDA) methods of analysis to evaluate the key components of sustainability and help assess the sustainability of aregional or national economic development trajectory. Case studies of water pollutants in the Bretagne region in France and greenhouse gas reduction in Europe are used to investigate resource allocation from this perspective. The contributors utilize the M3ED model - a structural economy-environment simulation model which gives a multi-sectoral representation of a national economy's production, final consumption and environmental pressures - to explore feasible economic futures. It is applied to scenarios in France to demonstrate ways that prospects for sustainability can be investigated at a national level. The contributors compare and contrast these models with the aims of more typical neoclassical modelling in their search for the most effective approaches to defining operational measures for sustainability. This book will be of great interest to academics in the field of ecological and environmental economics and to policymakers and planners in government and industry. |
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... greenhouse gas emissions , scheduled for negotiation at Kyoto in late 1997. Under the terms of pre - Kyoto agreements within the European Community ( see Council Conclusions on Climate Change of 3 March 1997 reproduced in Netherlands EU ...
... greenhouse emissions after the year 2000 , below the 1990 levels , should be included in an international protocol . It was also noted that equitable burden sharing in terms of effort and economic development opportunity should be ...
... greenhouse effect 167 , 267 greenhouse gas emissions 14 , 240 , 244-5 , 261 , 271 , 274 habitats 29 , 39 , 81-2 , 84 , 96 , 248 , 282 Hartwick Rule 46 , 65 Hartwickian net savings 71 heat 10 , 13 , 31 , 84 , 122–9 , 134 , 136-42 , 149 ...
Contents
2 EcologicalEconomic Sustainability | 19 |
Weak Natural Capital Theory | 43 |
Strong Sustainability and Critical Natural Capital | 75 |
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