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Tables of Contents for Blueprint for a Green Economy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xii
Introduction
1
27
The idea of sustainable development
1
2
Sustainable development as a bequest to the future
3
1
Economy and environment
4
1
Valuing the environment
5
2
Anticipatory and reactive environmental policy
7
4
The challenge of global pollution
11
4
Natural adaptation
15
1
Policy response
16
2
Summarizing the sustainable development approach to environmental policy
18
1
Growth versus the environment?
19
9
The Meaning of Sustainable Development
28
23
Economic development, development and economic growth
29
1
Environment, development and growth
30
2
Sustainable development
32
1
Sustainable development and the environment
33
1
Sustainable development as non-declining wealth
34
3
Sustainable development as non-declining natural wealth
37
3
Sustainability as resilience
40
3
Various meanings of constant capital stock
43
2
Importing and exporting sustainability
45
2
Conclusions on the meaning of sustainable development
47
4
Valuing the Environment
51
42
Economics and environmental values
51
4
The uses of monetary measures
55
2
Monetary value of national environmental damage and benefits
57
3
Total economic value
60
3
Total economic value and decision-making
63
1
Direct and indirect valuation
63
1
The hedonic price approach
64
3
Examples of hedonic price estimates of environmental quality
67
2
Contingent valuation
69
2
Travel-cost approaches
71
4
More on existence value
75
2
Empirical measures of option and existence value
77
3
Conclusions on valuing the environment
80
13
Annex: Difficulties in the Application of Estimation Techniques
82
11
Accounting for the Environment
93
27
Environmental accounting: the physical approach
95
10
Environmental accounting: the monetary approach
105
8
Environmental accounting: a physical or monetary approach?
113
3
The treatment of environmental accounts in the United Kingdom
116
1
Conclusions and recommendations
117
3
Project Appraisal
120
12
The basic analytics of project appraisal
120
2
Valuing environmental damage
122
5
An additional approach to project appraisal: integrating sustainability into cost-benefit analysis
127
2
Conclusions
129
3
Discounting the Future
132
21
The nature of discounting
132
3
Discounting and the environment
135
1
The environmentalist critique of discounting
136
7
Conclusions on ``environmental critiques'' of discounting
143
1
Discounting and natural resources
144
1
Should discount rates be adjusted because of environmental concern?
145
6
Conclusions
151
2
Prices and Incentives for Environmental Improvement
153
33
Levels of the economy at which sustainable development incentives are required
153
1
Markets and prices
154
2
The proper pricing of products and services
156
1
Making the polluter pay
156
2
Who is the polluter?
158
2
Sustainable development and the PPP
160
1
What are market-based incentives?
161
1
A carbon tax
162
5
The proper pricing of natural resources
167
1
Integrative environmental policy and market-based incentives
167
1
Incentives and energy conservation
168
2
Conclusions on pricing for sustainable development
170
16
Annex: Sustainable Development---A Gallery of Definitions
173
13
Index
186