The Environmental Consequences of Growth: Steady-State Economics as an Alternative to Ecological Decline (New Directions in Social Economics)

✍ Scribed by Douglas Booth

• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 238
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents a new perspective on the link between economic growth and environmental change. All the key issues in environmental economics are covered, including: * industry, creation and environmental change * air, water and toxic pollution * economic growth and the limits of environmental regulation * ethics and the limits of environmental economics. The central thesis is that whilst new industries are necessary for economic growth, their development creates new environmental problems which become difficult to reverse. An alternative approach, 'steady-state economics', based on the concept of ethical commitment, is put forward as a possible alternative to a high-growth, environmentally destructive economy. Providing a welcome alternative to conventional, neoclassical microeconomic thought on environmental issues, this will be vital reading for students of environmental economics and related subjects.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
SERIES-TITLE......Page 3
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
DEDICATION......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 7
FIGURES......Page 8
TABLES......Page 9
PREFACE......Page 10
1 INTRODUCTION: Economic growth and environmental change......Page 12
2 ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Theory......Page 18
3 THE LINE BETWEEN INDUSTRY CREATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE......Page 30
4 ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Natural habitat loss......Page 64
5 ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Air, water, and pesticide pollution......Page 87
6 ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE LIMITS OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION......Page 105
7 ETHICS AND THE LIMITS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS......Page 127
8 THE STEADY-STATE ALTERNATIVE......Page 142
9 THE MACROECONOMICS OF STEADY STATE......Page 159
10 ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURE......Page 167
11 GROWTH, ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE, AND STEADY-STATE ECONOMICS: Conclusion......Page 184
NOTES......Page 187
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 194
INDEX......Page 207