Environment, Growth and Development - The Concepts and Strategies of Sustainability

List of contents

Chapter 1 What On Earth Is Wrong?; Chapter 2 Accounting for Sustainable Development; Chapter 3 Environment and Development—A Matter of Sustainability?; Chapter 4 Planning and Policies I: Sustainable Growth and Structural Change; Chapter 5 Planning and Policies II: Sustainable Development; Chapter 6 Outlook: From National to Global Compacts;

About the author

Peter Bartelmus is the Officer-in-Charge for the Environment and Energy Statistics Branch at the United Nations Statistical Division, New York.

Summary

Offers an analysis of sustainable economic growth and development based on operational variables derived from the new systems of "green accounting", and the implications for policy and planning at the local, national and global scale.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Bartelmus, Peter (University of Wuppertal Bartelmus
• Assisted by: Maurice Strong (Foreword)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138424531
• ISBN: 978-1-138-42453-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, environmental science, engineering & technology, Human Geography, Environmental science, engineering and technology