Environmental sustainability
Subtitle: a consumption approach
By: Raghbendra Jha and K.V. Bhanu Murthy.
Contributors: Murthy, K. V. Bhanu, 1951-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Sustainable development; Consumption (Economics)
Description: "The so-called Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) argument implies that rapid economic growth in many developing countries should be environmentally unsustainable. Environmental Sustainability addresses this dichotomy and articulates a notion of consumption sustainability that is both universal and pertains to the indefinite future. Additionally, it emphasises the importance of addressing a broad spectrum of sources of environmental degradation and relates this measure to an index of economic achievement more complete than per capita income. The EKC conclusion is examined and is demonstrated to be untenable, it is argued that there is scope to permit developing countries to target high rates of economic growth and that lowering rich countries' consumption would be consistent with environmental sustainability."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Global disparity and environmental sustainability; title: Consumption and sustainable development: an overview; title: Methodological issues: a review; title: Global environmental degradation: concept and methodology of measurement; title: Sustainability: behavior, property rights and economic growth; title: An inverse global environmental Kuznets curve; title: A critique of the environmental sustainability index; title: A consumption based human development index and the global environmental Kuznets curve; title: Political economy of global environmental governance; title: Issues in global environmental management; title: Summary and conclusions.