Sustainable Development : Critical Issues / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Contributor:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Content Provider.

Series:

Sustainable development.

Sustainable development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--OECD countries.

Sustainable development.

Conservation of natural resources--OECD countries.

Conservation of natural resources.

Economic development--Environmental aspects--OECD countries.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (490 p.)

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How can we meet the needs of today without diminishing the capacity of future generations to meet theirs? This is the central question posed by "sustainable development". OECD countries committed themselves to sustainable development at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio, yet - almost ten years later - progress accomplished remains partial and uneven. Drawing on analysis carried forward in response to a mandate from OECD Ministers in 1998, this report stresses the urgency to address some of the most pressing challenges for sustainable development. It reviews the conceptual foundations of sustainable development, its measurement, and the institutional reforms needed to make it operational. It then discusses how international trade and investment, as well as development co-operation, can contribute to sustainable development on a global basis, and reviews the experience of OECD countries in using market-based, regulatory and technology policies to reach sustainability goals in a cost-effective way. The report also provides an in-depth analysis of policies designed to address key threats to sustainability in the areas of climate change and natural resource management, as well as of those that respond to sustainability concerns at the sectoral and sub-national level. The common thrust of the report is that substantial opportunities exist to make economic growth, environmental protection, and social development mutually reinforcing.

Contents:

""FOREWORD""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""Section I""; ""Chapter 1.""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""Chapter 1. ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL TRENDS""; ""Introduction""; ""Economic growth, technology and globalisation""; ""Figure 1.1. Long-term trends in real GDP per capita in major world regions""; ""Figure 1.2. Long-term trends in productivity and key technologies""; ""Environmental pressures""; ""Table 1.1. International targets for preserving life support systems""; ""Figure 1.3. Global temperatures and emissions of greenhouse gases""; ""Table 1.2. Economic pressures on biodiversity""

""Figure 1.4. Annual freshwater withdrawals, 1997""""Figure 1.5. Trends in environment and natural resources in OECD countries""; ""Table 1.3. Environmental factors affecting health""; ""Figure 1.6. Economic losses from large weather-related disasters""; ""Figure 1.7. World population projections""; ""Social pressures""; ""Figure 1.8. Trends in inequality in real GDP per capita between countries""; ""Box 1.1 International development goals""; ""Figure 1.9. Dependency ratios in OECD countries""; ""Figure 1.10. Trends in income inequality within OECD countries""; ""Conclusions""; ""NOTES""

""REFERENCES""""Chapter 2.""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""Chapter 2. KEY FEATURES AND PRINCIPLES""; ""Introduction""; ""Historical background""; ""Interactions among key dimensions of sustainable development""; ""Figure 2.1. Some interactions between economic, social and environmental factors""; ""Needs, resources and productivity""; ""Needs""; ""Capital""; ""Figure 2.2. Different types of capital and human well-being""; ""Productivity""; ""Complementarity and substitutability among types of capital""; ""Box 2.1. The role of social capital in sustaining human well-being""

""Valuation and aggregation of different types of capital""""Internalising externalities and providing public goods""; ""Figure 2.3. Total value of natural capital""; ""Population size and per capita well-being""; ""Future generations: time horizons and discount rates""; ""Risks and uncertainties""; ""Intra-generational equity and social sustainability""; ""Sustainability at the sectoral and local levels""; ""Conclusions""; ""Box 2.2. Important elements of sustainable development policies""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 3.""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""Chapter 3. MEASUREMENT""

""Introduction""""Measurement considerations""; ""Box 3.1. OECD work relevant to sustainable development measurement""; ""Assessing overall sustainability""; ""Box 3.2. Genuine savings as an indicator of sustainable development""; ""Figure 3.1. Genuine savings rates, 1998""; ""Frameworks for measuring sustainable development""; ""Accounting frameworks""; ""Box 3.3. Examples of resource accounting for subsoil assets: European Union pilot study results""; ""Analytical frameworks""; ""Resource indicators""; ""Environmental assets""; ""Economic assets""; ""Social assets""

""Table 3.1. Resource indicators""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-08343-3

9786610083435

92-64-19318-9

OCLC:

642661572