Weak Versus Strong Sustainability: Exploring the Limits of Two Opposing Paradigms, Fourth EditionThis fourth edition of an enduring and popular book has been fully updated and revised, exploring the two opposing paradigms of sustainability in an insightful and accessible way. Eric Neumayer contends that central to the debate on sustainable developmen |
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Contents
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5 Measuring Weak Sustainability | 132 |
6 Measuring Strong Sustainability | 169 |
7 Conclusions | 191 |
Appendix 1 How Presentvalue Maximisation Can Lead to Extinction | 198 |
Appendix 2 The Hotelling Rule and Ramsey Rule in a Simple General Equilibrium Model | 200 |
Appendix 3 The Hotelling Rule and the Ramsey Rule in a More Complex Model | 204 |
Bibliography | 208 |
Index | 263 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Weak Versus Strong Sustainability: Exploring the Limits of Two Opposing Paradigms, Fourth Edition |
| Author | Eric Neumayer |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013 |
| ISBN | 178100708X, 9781781007082 |
| Length | 296 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Development / Sustainable Development Business & Economics / Environmental Economics Nature / Ecology |
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