Sustainable development indicators in ecological economics pt. 1. Introduction to sustainable development indicators pt. 2. Sustainable development and national accounting pt. 3. Sustainable development and welfare pt. 4. Sustainable development and natural capital accounting pt. 5. Sustainable development and indicators of human environment interaction pt. 6. Concluding assessments of sustainable development indicators Since the late 1980s and early 1990s national governments have introduced a range of policy measures designed to steer their economies along a more sustainable path. Yet how are we to know how successful these have been This significant new book discusses the ways in which sustainable development indicators can be improved in order to both assess the impact of past policies and avoid the repetition of previous failings