Economy and Ecology: Towards Sustainable Development

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

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Economy and Ecology: Towards Sustainable Development edited by

F. Archibugi Department of Planning Theory. University of Naples. Naples, Italy and

P. Nijkamp Faculty of Economics. Free University. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Springer-Science+Business Media, B.v.

ISBN 978-90-481-4056-5 ISBN 978-94-015-7831-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-7831-8

3-0692-250 ts

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© 1989 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1989 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1989 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1.

The Challenge of Sustainable Development F. Archibugi, P. Nijkamp, F.J. Soeteman

Part A

1

Growth, Development and Suatainability

2.

'Our Common Future', Sustaining the Momentum J. MacNeill

15

3.

Ecological Sustainability and Economic Development D.E. James, P. Nijkamp, J.B. Opschoor

27

4.

Towards Sustainable Development: an Environmental Perspective R.E. Munn

49

5.

Steady-State and Growth Concepts for the Next Century H.E. Daly

73

6.

Externalities: Economics R.U. Ayres, A.V. Kneese

7.

Ecological Modernization of Industrial Society Three Strategic Elements U.E. Simonis

119

8.

Economics versus Ecology S. Lombardini

139

Part B 9.

& Thermodynamics

89

Environmental Assessment and Policy Evaluation

An Assessment of Environmental Progress: the Reason for Failure B. Commoner

151

10.

Comprehensive Social Assessment: an Essential Instrument for Environmental Policy-Making F. Archibugi

169

11.

Environmental Quality in a New System of Social Accounts K.A. Fox

189

12.

Multicriteria Analysis: a Decision Support System for Sustainable Environmental Management P. Nijkamp

203

13.

Social Cost Benefit Analysis and Soil Erosion P. Dasgupta, K.-G. Maler

221

14.

Environmental Policy in Relation to Territorial Distribution and Productive Activities M. Bresso

261

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page 15.

Physical Planning and Environmental Protection in the Long Term B. Leeflang

279

16.

Four Important Changes in the American Approach to Environmental Regulation L.E. Susskind

295

17.

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

307

18.

Comparative Analysis of Environmental Policies G. Scimemi

333

Index

345

Preface 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 stud