Sustainable Development [electronic resource] : Critical Issues
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 : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2001.
 How can we meet the needs of today without diminishing the capacity of future generations to meet theirs? This is the central question posed by ""sustainable development"". OECD countries committed themselves to sustainable development at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio, yet - almost ten years later - progress accomplished remains partial and uneven. Drawing on analysis carried forward in response to a mandate from OECD Ministers in 1998, this report stresses the urgency to address some of the most pressing challenges for sustainable development. It reviews the co
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""FOREWORD""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""Section I""; ""Chapter 1.""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""Chapter 1. ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL TRENDS""; ""Introduction""; ""Economic growth, technology and globalisation""; ""Figure 1.1. Long-term trends in real GDP per capita in major world regions""; ""Figure 1.2. Long-term trends in productivity and key technologies""; ""Environmental pressures""; ""Table 1.1. International targets for preserving life support systems""; ""Figure 1.3. Global temperatures and emissions of greenhouse gases""; ""Table 1.2. Economic pressures on biodiversity""
""Figure 1.4. Annual freshwater withdrawals, 1997""""Figure 1.5. Trends in environment and natural resources in OECD countries""; ""Table 1.3. Environmental factors affecting health""; ""Figure 1.6. Economic losses from large weather-related disasters""; ""Figure 1.7. World population projections""; ""Social pressures""; ""Figure 1.8. Trends in inequality in real GDP per capita between countries""; ""Box 1.1 International development goals""; ""Figure 1.9. Dependency ratios in OECD countries""; ""Figure 1.10. Trends in income inequality within OECD countries""; ""Conclusions""; ""NOTES""
""REFERENCES""""Chapter 2.""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""Chapter 2. KEY FEATURES AND PRINCIPLES""; ""Introduction""; ""Historical background""; ""Interactions among key dimensions of sustainable development""; ""Figure 2.1. Some interactions between economic, social and environmental factors""; ""Needs, resources and productivity""; ""Needs""; ""Capital""; ""Figure 2.2. Different types of capital and human well-being""; ""Productivity""; ""Complementarity and substitutability among types of capital""; ""Box 2.1. The role of social capital in sustaining human well-being""
""Valuation and aggregation of different types of capital""""Internalising externalities and providing public goods""; ""Figure 2.3. Total value of natural capital""; ""Population size and per capita well-being""; ""Future generations: time horizons and discount rates""; ""Risks and uncertainties""; ""Intra-generational equity and social sustainability""; ""Sustainability at the sectoral and local levels""; ""Conclusions""; ""Box 2.2. Important elements of sustainable development policies""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 3.""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""Chapter 3. MEASUREMENT""
""Introduction""""Measurement considerations""; ""Box 3.1. OECD work relevant to sustainable development measurement""; ""Assessing overall sustainability""; ""Box 3.2. Genuine savings as an indicator of sustainable development""; ""Figure 3.1. Genuine savings rates, 1998""; ""Frameworks for measuring sustainable development""; ""Accounting frameworks""; ""Box 3.3. Examples of resource accounting for subsoil assets: European Union pilot study results""; ""Analytical frameworks""; ""Resource indicators""; ""Environmental assets""; ""Economic assets""; ""Social assets""
""Table 3.1. Resource indicators""
 How can we meet the needs of today without diminishing the capacity of future generations to meet theirs? This is the central question posed by ""sustainable development"". OECD countries committed themselves to sustainable development at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio, yet - almost ten years later - progress accomplished remains partial and uneven. Drawing on analysis carried forward in response to a mandate from OECD Ministers in 1998, this report stresses the urgency to address some of the most pressing challenges for sustainable development. It reviews the co
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