Overview
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Jeroen C. J. M. Bergh
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Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Marjan W. Hofkes
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Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-viii
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Sustainable development and formal models: background and summary
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- Jeroen C. J. M. Van Den Bergh, Marjan W. Hofkes
Pages 1-8
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Theoretical Approaches
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- Jeroen C. J. M. Van Den Bergh, Marjan W. Hofkes
Pages 11-37
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Empirical Testing and Delinking
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Front Matter
Pages 111-111
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- Cutler J. Cleveland, David I. Stern
Pages 113-138
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- Alberto Ansuategi, Edward Barbier, Charles Perrings
Pages 139-164
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Measurement and Implementation
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Front Matter
Pages 173-173
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- David Pearce, Giles Atkinson, Kirk Hamilton
Pages 175-193
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- Peter Nijkamp, Hans Ouwersloot
Pages 255-273
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Policy and the International Dimension
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Front Matter
Pages 275-275
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- Klaus Conrad, Tobias F. N. Schmidt
Pages 287-316
About this book
There is widespread concern for long-term environmental issues in relation to economic processes and developments. Among the concerned scientists are economists, who have taken up the challenge to apply economic insights and tools for the study of long-term environment-economy interactions, and to give the concept of sustainable development 'economic hands and feet'. This book presents a pluralistic perspective on efforts, problems and successes in this area. This collection of papers was originally prepared for an international symposium titled Economic Modelling of Sustainable Development: Between Theory and Practice, which was hosted by the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, on December 20th 1996. The main motivation for this symposium was that the usefulness of the concept of sustainable development for theoretical and applied modelling is still being debated; growth theorists, resource economists, ecological economists, policy makers and many others are trying to deal with the concept in various, and sometimes conflicting, ways. The aim of the symposium was to bring together different theoretical and implementational perspectives on modelling for sustainable development. We hope that this volume will inform a wide audience about the perspectives and progress in this important area of research, as well as stimulate further research, notably on applied modelling and practical methods for the analysis of sustainable development at various (spatial) scales. The papers have, in due course, been revised several times based on comments made by discus sants, referees and the editors.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jeroen C. J. M. Bergh
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Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Marjan W. Hofkes