The Green Economy
Environment, Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
The Green Economy
Environment, Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future
334 pages

Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Analysis
1. The Economy and the Environmental Crisis
2. Whose Environment?
3. The Invisible Elbow: Market Forces and Environmental Degradation
4. Capitalism, Industrialism and Green Politics
Part II: Objectives
5. Sustainable Development: Beyond 'Zero Growth'
6. Valuing the Environment: The 'Orthodox Economists's' Approach to Environmental Protection
7. Sustainability: Protecting the Future
8. Making Sustainability Operational: The Meaning of 'Environmental Capacity'
9. Environmental Efficiency, Entropy and Energy
Part III: Programme
10. Sustainability Planning
11. Instruments for Environmental Protection
12. Regulations versus Financial Incentives?
13. The Role of Government Expenditure
14. Equity and the Integration of Social and Environmental Policy
15. Global Environmental Economic Policy
Part IV: Measurement
16. Making Environmental Decisions (1): The Limits of Cost-Benefit Analysis
17. Making Environmental Decisions (2): Monetary Valuation of the Environment
18. Measuring Success
19. The Standard of Living and the Quality of Life
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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