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This volume contains a collection of surveys of the most important issues in formal - both theoretical and applied - analysis of sustainable development. Although the literature on the various aspects of sustainable development is very large, a systematic account of modelling of sustainable development - of which there are already many examples available - is largely lacking. This book contains sixteen contributions grouped under four headings: 'Theoretical Approaches', 'Empirical Testing and Delinking', 'Measurement and Implementation', and 'Policy and the International Dimension'. From a modelling perspective, the problem of growth, trade and sustainability requires some kind of integration of theories and models on international trade, location theory, international policy coordination, economic growth and development, and resource and ecological processes. The general lesson emanating from this book is that we need to go beyond partial approaches.

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Author:   J.C. van den Bergh ,  M.W. Hofkes
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998
Volume:   15
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9789048150144

ISBN 10:   9048150140
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   05 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Sustainable Development and Formal Models: background and summary.- I: Theoretical Approaches.- 2. A Survey of Economic Modelling of Sustainable Development Jeroen.- 3. Technological Change, Economic Growth and Sustainability.- 4. Evolutionary Complex Systems and Sustainable Development.- 5. Theoretical Aspects of the Economic Modelling of Sustainable Development.- II: Empirical Testing and Delinking.- 6. Indicators of Natural Resource Scarcity: review, synthesis, and application to US agriculture.- 7. The Environmental Kuznets Curve.- 8. Delinking, Relinking and the Perception of Resource Scarcity.- 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 Modelling for Sustainable Development: the Dutch experience.- 13. Multidimensional Sustainability Analysis: the Flag model.- IV: Policy and the International Dimension.- 14. Economic Aspects of Global Environmental Models.- 15. The International Policy Dimension of Sustainabilitythe effect of policy harmonization within the EU using the GEM-E3 model.- 16. Policy Models for International Environmental Problems.

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