Product Description

Ekins breaks new ground in defining the conditions of compatibility between economic growth and environmental sustainabilty, and provides measures and criteria by which the environmental sustainabilty of economic growth can be judged.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #172143 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 392 pages

From the Back Cover
A key area of public policy is the question of how, and how much, to protect the environment. At the heart of this is the heated debate over the nature of the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability. Is environmentally sustainable economic growth, or green growth, a contradiction in terms?
Avoiding the confusion that often surrounds these issues, the author provides rigorous expositions of the concept of sustainability, integrated environmental and economic accounting, the Environmental Kuznets Curve, the economics of climate change and environmental taxation. Individual chapters are organised as self-contained, state-of-the art expositions of the core issues of environmental economics, with extensive cross-referencing from one chapter to another, in order guide the student and policy-maker through these complex problems.
Paul Ekins breaks new ground in defining the conditions of compatibility between economic growth and environmental sustainability, and provides mea