Defining Sustainability
eBook - PDF

Defining Sustainability

Special Issue of Land Economics 73:4 (November 1997)

  1. 178 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Defining Sustainability

Special Issue of Land Economics 73:4 (November 1997)

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Defining Sustainability: An Overview by Richard B. Howarth
  3. Sustainability Constraints versus "Optimality" versus Intertemporal Concern, and Axioms versus Data by John C. V. Pezzey
  4. What is Sustainable Development? by Graciela Chichilnisky
  5. How to decide when experts disagree: Uncertainity-Based choice rules in Environmental Policy by Richard T. Woodward and Richard C. Bishop
  6. Paying Down the Environmental Debt by John M. Hartwick
  7. Hicksian Income from Resource Extraction in an Open Economy by Kjell Arne Brekke
  8. Neoclassical Natural Capital THeory and "Weak" Indicators for Sustainability by Sylvia Faucheux, Eliot Muir, and Martin O'Connor
  9. Sustainability: Ecological and Economic Perspectives by Bryan G. Norton and Michael A. Toman
  10. Sustainability as Opportunity by Richard B. Howarth
  11. On the Problem of Achieving Efficiency and Equity, Intergenerationally by Talbot Page
  12. Dimensions of Sustainability: Geographical, Temporal, Institutional, and Psychological by Charles W. Howe
  13. Policies for Sustainability: Lessons from an Overlapping Generations Model by Micahel C. Farmer and Alan Randall