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