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Handbook of sustainable development / edited by Giles Atkinson [and three others] ; W. Neil Adger [and fifty others], contributors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Elgar original reference
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (620 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This timely and important Handbook takes stock of progress made in our understanding of what sustainable development actually is and how it can be measured and achieved.
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Editors; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; PART I FUNDAMENTALS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; 2 Comprehensive wealth accounting and sustainable development; 3 Sustainable development in ecological economics; 4 Strong sustainability and critical natural capital; 5 Ecosystems as assets; 6 Ecological and social resilience; PART II EQUITY ACROSS GENERATIONS; 7 Ethics and sustainable development: the virtues of an adaptive approach to environmental choice; 8 Equitable intergenerational preferences and sustainability
- 9 Evaluating impacts in the distant future: cost-benefit analysis, discounting and the alternatives10 Weak sustainability, conservation and precaution; PART III EQUITY WITHIN GENERATIONS; 11 Distribution, sustainability and environmental policy; 12 Environmental justice and sustainability; 13 Vulnerability, poverty and sustaining well-being; 14 Human wellbeing and sustainability: interdependent and intertwined; PART IV GROWTH, CONSUMPTION AND NATURAL CAPITAL; 15 Green growth; 16 Economic growth and the environment; 17 The resource curse and sustainable development; 18 Sustainable consumption
- 19 Population and sustainability20 Technological lock-in and the role of innovation; PART V PROGRESS IN MEASURING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; 21 Environmental accounting; 22 Genuine saving as an indicator of sustainability; 23 Measuring sustainable economic welfare; 24 Ecological Footprint accounts; PART VI THE INTERNATIONAL SETTING; 25 International trade and sustainable development; 26 International environmental cooperation; 27 The international politics of sustainable development; 28 Financing for sustainable development; PART VII DIMENSIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY
- 29 Climate change adaptation: a risk-management approach30 Linking climate change mitigation research to sustainable development; 31 Sustainable development of water resources; 32 Sustainable agriculture; 33 Sustainable energy policy; 34 Sustainable cities and local sustainability; 35 Corporate social responsibility, sustainability and the governance of business; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78254-470-4
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