Justifying, Characterizing and Indicating Sustainability

1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-90-481-7563-5
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

Reihe: Sustainability, Economics, and Natural Resources

During the last two decades, I have subjected the concept of sustainable development to economic analysis. To a great extent this work has been done in co-operation with my co-authors Wolfgang Buchholz, Bertil Tungodden, Martin Weitzman and Cees Withagen, and it has lead to a series of journal articles. This book presents the results of this research program. The original articles are reproduced. However, I have updated information about references and corrected a few mistakes (mostly typographical). STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK This book consists of 19 chapters. Chapter 1 is new, written as a guide to the book and its content. It also gives an up-to-date survey of relevant literature and its relation to the later chapters. Chapters 2–19 are reproductions of published articles. The articles are organized into three parts. Part I, which comprises Chaps.2–7, is concerned with the normative question of how to justify sustainability. Part II, consisting of Chaps.8–13, considers how sustainable development can be characterized. Finally, in Part III, Chaps.14–19 are devoted to the problem of indicating sustainability. Within each part, the initial chapter – i.e., Chap.2 for Part I, Chap.8 for Part II and Chap.14 for Part III – is an overview article that functions as a survey for the later chapters in the corresponding part.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Asheim, Geir B.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftswachstum
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Justifying Sustainability.- Economic Analysis of Sustainability.- Intergenerational Ethics Under Resource Constraints.- Justifying Sustainability.- Resolving Distributional Conflicts Between Generations.- The Malleability of Undiscounted Utilitarianism as a Criterion of Intergenerational Justice.- Rawlsian Intergenerational Justice as a Markov-perfect Equilibrium in a Resource Technology.- Unjust Intergenerational Allocations.- Characterizing Sustainability.- The Hartwick Rule: Myths and Facts.- Hartwick's Rule in Open Economies.- Capital Gains and ‘Net National Product' in Open Economies.- Characterizing Sustainability: The Converse of Hartwick's Rule.- On the Sustainable Program in Solow's Model.- Maximin, Discounting, and Separating Hyperplanes.- Indicating Sustainability.- Green National Accounting for Welfare and Sustainability: A Taxonomy of Assumptions and Results.- Net National Product as an Indicator of Sustainability.- Adjusting Green NNP to Measure Sustainability.- Does NNP Growth Indicate Welfare Improvement?.- A General Approach to Welfare Measurement through National Income Accounting.- Green National Accounting with a Changing Population.