Defining sustainability / Richard B. Howarth, guest editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howarth, Richard B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development.

Land use.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The rising stature of sustainable development constitutes an important and evolving challenge for natural resource and environmental economics. Is sustainability best achieved through the use and extension of conventional criteria for optimal resource allocation? Or does the concept involve a more substantial shift beyond methods such as present-value maximization and nonmarket valuation? At the heart of this challenge lie questions concerning the precise meaning that should be attached to the phrase "sustainable development, " and how this concept may be operationalized in economic theory and applied policy analysis.

Contents:

Contents ; Defining Sustainability: An Overview by Richard B. Howarth ; Sustainability Constraints versus ""Optimality"" versus Intertemporal Concern, and Axioms versus Data by John C. V. Pezzey ; What is Sustainable Development? by Graciela Chichilnisky ; How to decide when experts disagree: Uncertainty-Based choice rules in Environmental Policy by Richard T. Woodward and Richard C. Bishop ; Paying Down the Environmental Debt by John M. Hartwick ; Hicksian Income from Resource Extraction in an Open Economy by Kjell Arne Brekke

Neoclassical Natural Capital THeory and ""Weak"" Indicators for Sustainability by Sylvia Faucheux, Eliot Muir, and Martin O'Connor Sustainability: Ecological and Economic Perspectives by Bryan G. Norton and Michael A. Toman ; Sustainability as Opportunity by Richard B. Howarth ; On the Problem of Achieving Efficiency and Equity, Intergenerationally by Talbot Page ; Dimensions of Sustainability: Geographical, Temporal, Institutional, and Psychological by Charles W. Howe ; Policies for Sustainability: Lessons from an Overlapping Generations Model by Micahel C. Farmer and Alan Randall

Notes:

"A special issue from Land economics, November 1997, volume 73, number 4."--Cover.

Two columns to the page.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612594861

9781282594869

1282594869