TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarkar,Runa
AU  - Sinha,Anup
TI  - Economics of sustainable development /Runa Sarkar and Anup Sinha
T2  - Economics collection,
SN  - 9781631571053
AV  - HD75 .E266 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017)
PB  - Business Expert Press
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Economic development
KW  - carrying capacity
KW  - climate change
KW  - collective action
KW  - ecological footprint
KW  - economic development
KW  - economic growth
KW  - ecosystem services
KW  - ecosystems
KW  - environment
KW  - genuine investment
KW  - global governance
KW  - inter-generational well-being
KW  - international political economy
KW  - intra-generational wellbeing
KW  - market failures
KW  - social discount rate
KW  - sustainable development
KW  - time preference
KW  - weak and strong sustainable development
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 1 (pages 187-195) and index; 1. The meaning of economic development --; 2. Economic activity and nature --; 3. Viewing the future --; 4. Inequality and policy choices for sustainable development --; 5. Weak versus strong sustainability --; 6. Measures and indicators of sustainability --; 7. Market failures and public policy interventions --; 8. Corporate strategies --; 9. Climate change as a special problem of sustainable development --; 10. Sustainability and the international political economy --; 11. Ethics and sustainable development --; 12. Toward sustainable development: reform or radical change? --; References --; About the authors --; Index; 2; b; Also available in printing
N2  - This book analyses the concept of sustainable development from the perspective of economics. The concept of sustainability has become an integral part of business strategies across the world. Regulations that govern business have changed in order to facilitate sustainable processes, as have consumer preferences in demanding more environmentally clean products. The perceived importance of being green, whether in company board rooms or in government policy-making circles, is not always backed up by an adequate understanding of the complexities of the concept, and their implications for decision-making. It is important to have an understanding of these complexities and the economic logic underlying both the necessity and the difficulty of moving to a world that can be sustained over time. At the core of the concept of sustainable development lies the inter-relationship between the activities of human societies and nature. An understanding of this inter-relationship goes beyond the domain of conventional economics, into more interfaced terrains of ecological economics and environmental science. This book attempts to sensitize the business practitioner and the public-policy planner, as well as students of business management and the social sciences, to the complexities of the concept of sustainable development in an easily comprehensible manner. Without an appreciation of the different aspects and dimensions of sustainability, policy and practice often tend to come up with mutually inconsistent strategies that do not add up to the dynamic goal of sustainable development for future residents of planet earth
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