Modelling Sustainable Development: Transitions to a Sustainable Future (The Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei series on Economics, the Environment and Sustainable Development) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184720905X ISBN 13: 9781847209054

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

This insightful book explores the issue of sustainable development in its more operative and applied sense. Although a great deal of research has addressed potential interpretations and definitions of sustainable development, much of this work is too abstract to offer policy-makers and researchers the feasible and effective guidelines they require. This book redresses the balance.

The authors highlight how various indicators and aggregate measures can be included in models that are used for decision-making support and sustainability assessment. They also demonstrate the importance of identifying practical means to assess whether policy proposals, specific decisions or targeted scenarios are sustainable.

With discussions of basic concepts relevant to understanding applied sustainability analysis, such as definitions of costs and revenue recycling, this book provides policy-makers, researchers and graduate students with feasible and effective principles for measuring sustainable development.

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About the Author

Edited by Valentina Bosetti, Professor, Bocconi University, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Italy, Reyer Gerlagh, Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Manchester, UK and Stefan P. Schleicher, Professor and Scientific Consultant, Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Austria

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184720905X
• ISBN 13: 9781847209054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Bosetti Valentina, Gerlagh Reyer, Schleicher Stefan P.