Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability: The Prospects for Green Growth

by Ekins; Paul

• ISBN13: 9780415173339
• ISBN10: 0415173337
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-12-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Paul Ekins breaks new ground in defining the conditions of compatibility between economic growth and environmental sustainability, an provides measures and criteria by which the environmental sustainability of economic growth, as it occurs in the real world, may be judged. It is argued that "green growth" is not only theoretically possible but economically achievable and the author shows what environmental and economic policies are required to achieve this.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vi
List of tables	vii
Preface and acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(22)
Perceptions of environmental scarcity	23	(28)
Wealth creation: distinguishing between production, welfare, growth and development	51	(19)
The concept of environmental sustainability	70	(45)
Accounting for production and the environment	115	(39)
Population, affluence, technology and environmental impacts	154	(28)
Review and critique of the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis	182	(33)
The dividends from environmental taxation	215	(27)
Decision making and the costs related to climate change	242	(41)
Sustainability and sulphur emissions: the case of the UK, 1970--2010	283	(33)
Conclusions	316	(11)
Bibliography	327	(26)
Index	353