Sustainable Development: Concepts, Rationalities and Strategies

3 decision support techniques that do not depend exclusively on market incentives and monetary valuation. The World Conservation Strategy published by the mCN (1980) recognised the full dimensions of these problems, and introduced the concept of sustainab

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Economy & Environment VOLUME 13

Scientific Advisory Board Scott Barrett, London Business School, London, United Kingdom Klaus Conrad, University 0/ Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany David James, Ecoservices Pty. Ltd., Whale Beach, New South Wales, Australia Bengt J. Kristrom, University 0/ Umea, Sweden Raymond Prince, Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Congress, Washington DC, U.S.A. Domenico Siniscalco, ENI-Enrico Mattei, Milano, Italy / University o/Torino, Italy

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

Sustainable Development: Concepts, Rationalities and Strategies edited by

Sylvie Faucheux Centre d' Economie et d' Ethique pour I' Environnement et Ie Developpement, Universite de Versailles-St. Quentin en Yvelines, France

Martin 0 'Connor Centre d' Economie et d' Ethique pour l' Environnement et Ie Developpement, Universite de Versailles-St. Quentin en Yvelines, France

and

Jan van der Straaten Department of Leisure Studies, European Centre for Nature Conservation, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-90-481-4970-4 ISBN 978-94-017-3188-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-3188-1

Printed on acid-free paper

AII Rights Reserved © 1998 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Origina11y published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1998 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.

CONTENTS

Editors' Introduction S. Faucheux, M O'Connor and J. van der Straaten The Implications of Environmental Sustainability for Economic Growth P. Ekins and M Jacobs Ecological Distribution and Distributed Sustainability M O'Connor and J. Martinez-Alier Bioeconomic Conceptions and the Concept of Sustainable Development F-D. Vivien Sustainable Development and Public Policy J. van der Straaten

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69

The Political Economics of Sustainability P. Soderbaum

85

Rational Assumptions in Energy Scenarios B. Olerup

103

Short-run and Long-run Adjustment to Environmental Policy: a Neo-Austrian Approach G. Stephan

117

Sustainability and Structural Change l Ropke

141

Sustainability Concepts and Total Economic Valuation J.w. Milon

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A Practical Sustainability Criterion when there is International Trade J.L.R Proops and G. Atkinson How Strong is Weak Sustainability? P. Victor, S. Hanna and A. Kubursi

169 195

Sustainability Principles and Depreciation Estimates of Natural Capital in Brazil R Seroa Da Motta

211

Environmental Decision Making: a Comparison between Cost-Benefit Analysis and Multicriteria Decision Aid G. Munda, P.Nijkamp and P. Rietveld

227

Sustainability, Uncertainty and Intergenerational Fairness R.B. Howarth

239

Sustainable Development, Rationality and Time A. Vercelli

259

Towards a Decision-ma