Sustaining Prosperity, Nature and Wellbeing

What Do the Indicators Tell Us?
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8153-5170-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

This book explores what is needed for an overall evaluation of the prosperity and wellbeing of people within a framework of sustaining the economy, environment and development.

The book begins by assessing the validity of available data, indicators and indices in decision and policy making. It describes what the data tell us about the effects of economic activity on the quality of life and prosperity of people and nations, now and in the future, and highlights how a reliance on partial and distorted information can thwart rational policies. It also examines whether less tangible notions of wellbeing and happiness lend themselves to quantification and prediction. Overall, Bartelmus demonstrates the need for integrated accounting and analysis to revise policy priorities around environmental, social, economic and sustainability concerns.

Confronting the persisting polarization of environmentalists and economists, this book will be of great relevance to students, scholars and professionals with an interest in environmental and ecological economics, sustainability indicators and their use in integrative policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bartelmus, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Lists of figures

List of tables

List of boxes

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I: WHAT SHOULD WE SUSTAIN?

1 Environmental impacts: triggering sustainability concerns

2 A framework for concepts and measures of sustainability

Part II: ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY: GETTING

RICHER?

3 We, the people: are we better off?

4 We, the nation: towards a sustainable economy

5 Modeling economic sustainability: will we be better off?

Part III: ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY: HOW MUCH

NATURE DO WE NEED?

6 How much nature do we use?

7 Sustainability: reaching the limits?

Part IV: CORNUCOPIA FROM SUSTAINABLE

DEVELOPMENT?

8 What do we want: happiness, wellbeing, the good life?

9 What can we get?

10 Sustainable development: blueprint or fig leaf?

Part V: WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT IT?

11 What do the indicators tell us?

12 Strategies, policies, politics

13 Bridging the environmental–economic polarization

14 CONCLUSIONS

Annex: A brief history of sustainability science and thought

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Bartelmus is an honorary professor at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany. After his work in the United Nations, he taught economics of sustainable development at Wuppertal and Columbia (USA) universities.