Sustainability and Policy Limits to Economics [Paperback]

An economic analysis of the sustainability problem - how to solve poverty without destroying the environment.How can poverty be addressed without destroying the environment? This study examines economic as well as ecological approaches to the dilemma, and considers policy issues for industrial economies within an original contribution to a rapidly emerging field.How can poverty be addressed without destroying the environment? This study examines economic as well as ecological approaches to the dilemma, and considers policy issues for industrial economies within an original contribution to a rapidly emerging field.Sustainability and Policy addresses the sustainability problem from the discipline of economics. How can poverty be addressed without destroying the environment? This study is a balanced, constructive, and original contribution in the rapidly emerging field of environmental economics and policy.1. Introduction; 2. The world economy: north and south; 3. Sustainability; 4. history and perspective; 5. Thinking about futures; 6. Economics; 7. Resource and environmental economics; 8. Some new economics; 9. National Policy; 10. The international dimension; 11. Postscript.