Economy & Ecology: Towards Sustainable Development

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. The Challenge of Sustainable Development

   1. The Challenge of Sustainable Development

      • F. Archibugi, P. Nijkamp, F. J. Soeteman

      Pages 1-12

3. Growth, Development and Sustainability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. ‘Our Common Future’, Sustaining the Momentum

      • J. MacNeill

      Pages 15-25

   3. Ecological Sustainability and Economic Development

      • D. E. James, P. Nijkamp, J. B. Opschoor

      Pages 27-48

   4. Towards Sustainable Development: An Environmental Perspective

      • R. E. Munn

      Pages 49-72

   5. Steady-State and Growth Concepts for the Next Century

      • H. E. Daly

      Pages 73-87

   6. Externalities: Economics & Thermodynamics

      • R. U. Ayres, A. V. Kneese

      Pages 89-118

   7. Ecological Modernization of Industrial Society — Three Strategic Elements

      • U. E. Simonis

      Pages 119-137

   8. Economics Versus Ecology

      • S. Lombardini

      Pages 139-148

4. Environmental Assessment and Policy Evaluation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. An Assessment of Environmental Progress: The Reason for Failure

      • B. Commoner

      Pages 151-167

   3. Comprehensive Social Assessment: An Essential Instrument for Environmental Policy-Making

      • F. Archibugi

      Pages 169-187

   4. Environmental Quality in a New System of Social Accounts

      • K. A. Fox

      Pages 189-201

   5. Multicriteria Analysis: A Decision Support System for Sustainable Environmental Management

      • P. Nijkamp

      Pages 203-220

   6. Social Cost Benefit Analysis and Soil Erosion

      • P. Dasgupta, K.-G. Mäler

      Pages 221-259

   7. Environmental Policy in Relation to Territorial Distribution and Productive Activities

      • M. Bresso

      Pages 261-278

   8. Physical Planning and Environmental Protection in the Long Term

      • H. Leeflang

      Pages 279-293

   9. Four Important Changes in the American Approach to Environmental Regulation

      • L. E. Susskind

      Pages 295-305

   10. Economic Growth and Environmental Change in Japan; Net National Welfare and Beyond

       • R. Uno

       Pages 307-332

After a period of relative silence, recent years have been marked by an upswing of interest in environmental issues. The publication of the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development on 'Our Common Future' (1987) has acted as a catalyst for a revival of the environmental awareness, not only regarding local and daily pollution problems, but also -and in particular- regarding global environmental decay and threats to a sustainable development. In a recent study by W.M. Stigliani et al., on 'Future Environments for Europe' (Executive Rep~rt 15, IIASA, Laxenburg, 1989) the environmental implications of various alternative socioeconomic development pathways with respect to eleven environmental issues that could become major problems in the future are analysed. These issues include: Managing water resources in an era of climate change. Acidification of soils and lakes in Europe. Long-term forestry management and the possibility of a future shortfall in wood supply. Areas of Europe marginalized by mainstream economic and agricultural development. Sea level rise. Chemical pollution of coastal waters. Toxic materials buildup and the potential for chemical time bombs. Non-point-source emissions of potentially toxic substances. Transportation growth versus air quality. Decreasing multi-functionally of land owing to urban and suburban land development. Increasing summer demand for electricity, and the impact on air quality.

• Environmental Management
• Sustainable Environment
• development
• ecology
• environmental protection
• sustainability
• sustainable development

.`This book is well-designed and laid out and will serve well any reader who wants to come up to speed on this issue area. ... includes outstanding bibliographic material ... Many ideas will come to readers, making the heuristic value of the collection one of its major assets. ... it is a timely and a valuable piece that is worth reading to understanding the multiple goals we face as we go into the second environmental decade.'
Water Resources Bulletin, 26:3

• Department of Planning Theory, University of Naples, Naples, Italy

  F. Archibugi

• Faculty of Economics, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  P. Nijkamp

Professor Dr P. Nijkamp has received the 1996 Spinoza Award, an annual award to honour outstanding scientific merit and to stimulate innovative future research.

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