Sustainability and Policy: Limits to Economics

by Michael Common

Overview

Sustainability and Policy addresses the sustainability problem from the discipline of economics. How can poverty be addressed without destroying the environment? This study is a balanced, constructive, and original contribution in the rapidly emerging field of environmental economics and policy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521436052
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/28/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. The world economy: north and south; 3. Sustainability; 4. history and perspective; 5. Thinking about futures; 6. Economics; 7. Resource and environmental economics; 8. Some new economics; 9. National Policy; 10. The international dimension; 11. Postscript.