Peter Bartelmus

Sustaining Prosperity, Nature and Wellbeing (eBook, PDF)

What do the Indicators Tell Us?

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores what is needed for an overall evaluation of the prosperity and wellbeing of people within a framework of sustaining the economy, environment and development.

The book begins by assessing the validity of available data, indicators and indices in decision and policy making. It describes what the data tell us about the effects of economic activity on the quality of life and prosperity of people and nations, now and in the future, and highlights how a reliance on partial and distorted information can thwart rational policies. It also examines whether less tangible notions of wellbeing and happiness lend themselves to quantification and prediction. Overall, Bartelmus demonstrates the need for integrated accounting and analysis to revise policy priorities around environmental, social, economic and sustainability concerns.

Confronting the persisting polarization of environmentalists and economists, this book will be of great relevance to students, scholars and professionals with an interest in environmental and ecological economics, sustainability indicators and their use in integrative policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351140591
• Artikelnr.: 56889848

Autorenporträt

Peter Bartelmus is an honorary professor at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany. After his work in the United Nations, he taught economics of sustainable development at Wuppertal and Columbia (USA) universities.

Inhaltsangabe

Lists of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: WHAT SHOULD WE SUSTAIN?
1 Environmental impacts: triggering sustainability concerns
2 A framework for concepts and measures of sustainability
Part II: ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY: GETTING
RICHER?
3 We, the people: are we better off?
4 We, the nation: towards a sustainable economy
5 Modeling economic sustainability: will we be better off?
Part III: ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY: HOW MUCH
NATURE DO WE NEED?
6 How much nature do we use?
7 Sustainability: reaching the limits?
Part IV: CORNUCOPIA FROM SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT?
8 What do we want: happiness, wellbeing, the good life?
9 What can we get?
10 Sustainable development: blueprint or fig leaf?
Part V: WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT IT?
11 What do the indicators tell us?
12 Strategies, policies, politics
13 Bridging the environmental-economic polarization
14 CONCLUSIONS
Annex: A brief history of sustainability science and thought