附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-352) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Perceptions of environmental scarcity -- 3. Wealth creation: distinguishing between production, welfare, growth and development -- 4. The concept of environmental sustainability -- 5. Accounting for production and the environment -- 6. Population, affluence, technology and environmental impacts -- 7. Review and critique of the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis -- 8. The dividends from environmental taxation -- 9. Decision making and the costs related to climate change -- 10. Sustainability and sulphur emissions: the case of the UK, 1970-2010 -- 11. Conclusions.
摘要:Defining the conditions of compatibility between economic growth and environmental sustainabilty, this text provides measures and criteria by which the environmental sustainability of economic growth can be judged.
