Theory and implementation of economic models for sustainable development/

Other Authors: Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den,, Hofkes, Marjan W.,, Beigh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den, Hofkes, Marjan W
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Boston: Kluwer, 1998
Series:Economy & Environment 15
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Sustainable development and formal models: background and summary
  • Part I. Theoretical approaches: 2. A survey of economic modeling of sustainable development 3. Technological change, economic growth and sustainability 4. Evolutionary complex systems and sustainable development 5. Theoretical aspects of the economic modeling of sustainable development
  • Part II. Empirical testing and delinking: 6. Indicators of natural resources scarcity: review, synthesis and application to US agriculture 7. The environmental Kuznets Curve 8. Delinking, relinking and the perception of resource scarcity
  • Part III. Measurement and implementation: 9. The measurement of sustainable development 10. Industrial metabolism: work in progress 11. On the paradigmatic and spatial dependency of indicators 12. Macroeconomic modeling for sustainable development: the Dutch experience 13. Multidimensional sustainability analysis: the flag model
  • Part IV: Policy and the international dimension: 14. Economic aspects of global environmental models 15. The International policy dimension of sustainability - the effect of policy harmonization within the EU using the GEM-E3 model 16. Policy models for international environmental problems
  • Index