Weak Versus Strong Sustainability
Subtitle: Exploring the Limits of Two Opposing Paradigms
Publisher: Elgar Publishing Limited, Edward
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781781007099
Subjects: Sustainable development; Environmental economics
Description: This fourth edition of an enduring and popular book has been fully updated and revised, exploring the two opposing paradigms of sustainability in an insightful and accessible way. Eric Neumayer contends that central to the debate on sustainable development is the question of whether natural capital can be substituted by other forms of capital. Proponents of weak sustainability maintain that such substitutability is possible, whilst followers of strong sustainability regard natural capital as non-substitutable. The author examines the availability of natural resources for the production of cons.