Peter Bartelmus - Environment, Growth and Development: The Concepts and Strategies of Sustainability

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ENVIRONMENT, GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Is sustainable development the answer to environmental decline and development failure? In 1987 the Brundtland Commission concluded that sustainable development would integrate environmental concerns into mainstream policies, shifting the focus from weak and peripheral environmental management to the socio-economic policy sources of environmental impacts. The 1992 Earth Summit confirmed the need to integrate environmental protection into the development process. It also requested that all countries establish programmes of integrated environmental and economic accounting for use in sustainable development planning and policies. An increasing number of developing and developed countries are now implementing green accounting to formulate national policies and strategies of sustainable economic growth and development.

Environment, Growth and Development offers a unique analysis of sustainable economic growth and development based on operational variables derived from the new systems of green accounting. A complete revision and expansion of Environment and Development, this book offers a new focus on macroeconomic aspects, comparing the goods of economic production and consumption with the bads of losses of natural resources and environmental quality. Beyond economics, ways of evaluating social, cultural, aesthetic or ethical issues are also proposed.

Focusing on operational, quantifiable concepts and methods, the book systematically links the different policies, strategies and programmes of growth and development to advance an integrative policy framework for sustainable development at local, national and international levels in both developing and industrialized countries.

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

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The concepts and strategies of sustainability

Peter Bartelmus

London and New York

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First published 1994
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

1994 Peter Bartelmus

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
Bartelmus, Peter.
Environment, growth and development: the concepts and strategies
of sustainability/Peter Bartelmus.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Economic developmentEnvironmental aspects. 2. Sustainable
development. 3. Environmental policyEconomic aspects. I. Title.
HD75.6.B373 1994
333.7dc20 9334234

ISBN 0-203-41939-1 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-30811-5 (OEB Format)

ISBN 0-415-10669-9 (hbk)

ISBN 0-415-08484-9 (pbk)

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