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Preface; Contents; About the Author; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Part I Ecological Economics, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development; 1 Ecological Economics and Climate Change; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Some Background Information on Climate Change Science; 1.2.1 The Natural Greenhouse Effect; 1.2.2 Climate Change Over the Course of Time; 1.2.3 Anthropogenic Global Warming-The Enhanced Greenhouse Effect; 1.2.4 Climate Change Projections; 1.2.5 The Potential Implications of Climate Change; 1.2.6 The Scientific and Institutional Response to Climate Change
1.3 What Is Ecological Economics?1.4 Putting the Climate Change Crisis into an Appropriate Context; 2 Sustainable Development and Climate Change; 2.1 Defining Sustainable Development; 2.1.1 The Coevolutionary World-View; 2.1.2 The Linear Throughput Representation of the Economic Process; 2.1.3 Ecological Constraints, Human Needs, and Intragenerational Equity; 2.1.3.1 Ecological Factors and Constraints; 2.1.3.2 Human Needs and the Principle of Intragenerational Equity; 2.1.4 A Broad Definition of Sustainable Development
2.2 Sustainable Development and the Ecological and Economic Limits to Growth2.2.1 Economic and Uneconomic Growth; 2.2.2 Efficiency-Increasing Technological Progress; 2.2.2.1 Beneficial Shifts of the Uncancelled Benefits (UB) Curve; 2.2.2.2 Beneficial Shifts of the Uncancelled Costs (UC) Curve; 2.2.2.3 Limits to the Beneficial Shifts of the UB and UC Curves and the Necessity of the Steady-State Economy; 2.3 Empirical Evidence of the Ecological and Economic Limits to Growth; 2.3.1 Ecological Limits to Growth: Ecological Footprint Versus Biocapacity
2.3.2 Economic Limits to Growth: The Genuine Progress Indicator3 Policies to Achieve Sustainable Development; 3.1 Achieving Sustainable Development: Policy Goals and Instruments; 3.2 Ecological Tax Reform; 3.3 Achieving Ecological Sustainability; 3.3.1 Cap-Auction-Trade Systems; 3.3.2 Dealing with Non-renewable Resources; 3.3.3 The Sustainable Use of Agricultural Land; 3.3.4 Native Vegetation Clearance Controls; 3.3.5 Population Stabilisation; 3.4 Achieving Distributional Equity; 3.4.1 Minimum Income; 3.4.2 Maximum IncomeLimiting the Range of Income Inequality; 3.4.3 Foreign Aid
3.5 Achieving Allocative Efficiency3.5.1 Appropriately Defined Property Rights; 3.5.2 Externalities; 3.5.3 Public Goods; 3.5.4 Sunk Costs and the Contestability of Markets; 3.5.5 Market Deregulation and the Privatisation of Public Assets; 3.5.6 Flexible Labour Markets and Adequate Skills Formation; 3.6 Monetary Reform; 3.7 National Accounting Reforms; 3.7.1 National Accounting Reform # 1-National Income; 3.7.2 National Accounting Reform # 2-Sustainable Economic Welfare; 3.7.3 National Accounting Reform # 3-Ecological Economic Efficiency
1.3 What Is Ecological Economics?1.4 Putting the Climate Change Crisis into an Appropriate Context; 2 Sustainable Development and Climate Change; 2.1 Defining Sustainable Development; 2.1.1 The Coevolutionary World-View; 2.1.2 The Linear Throughput Representation of the Economic Process; 2.1.3 Ecological Constraints, Human Needs, and Intragenerational Equity; 2.1.3.1 Ecological Factors and Constraints; 2.1.3.2 Human Needs and the Principle of Intragenerational Equity; 2.1.4 A Broad Definition of Sustainable Development
2.2 Sustainable Development and the Ecological and Economic Limits to Growth2.2.1 Economic and Uneconomic Growth; 2.2.2 Efficiency-Increasing Technological Progress; 2.2.2.1 Beneficial Shifts of the Uncancelled Benefits (UB) Curve; 2.2.2.2 Beneficial Shifts of the Uncancelled Costs (UC) Curve; 2.2.2.3 Limits to the Beneficial Shifts of the UB and UC Curves and the Necessity of the Steady-State Economy; 2.3 Empirical Evidence of the Ecological and Economic Limits to Growth; 2.3.1 Ecological Limits to Growth: Ecological Footprint Versus Biocapacity
2.3.2 Economic Limits to Growth: The Genuine Progress Indicator3 Policies to Achieve Sustainable Development; 3.1 Achieving Sustainable Development: Policy Goals and Instruments; 3.2 Ecological Tax Reform; 3.3 Achieving Ecological Sustainability; 3.3.1 Cap-Auction-Trade Systems; 3.3.2 Dealing with Non-renewable Resources; 3.3.3 The Sustainable Use of Agricultural Land; 3.3.4 Native Vegetation Clearance Controls; 3.3.5 Population Stabilisation; 3.4 Achieving Distributional Equity; 3.4.1 Minimum Income; 3.4.2 Maximum IncomeLimiting the Range of Income Inequality; 3.4.3 Foreign Aid
3.5 Achieving Allocative Efficiency3.5.1 Appropriately Defined Property Rights; 3.5.2 Externalities; 3.5.3 Public Goods; 3.5.4 Sunk Costs and the Contestability of Markets; 3.5.5 Market Deregulation and the Privatisation of Public Assets; 3.5.6 Flexible Labour Markets and Adequate Skills Formation; 3.6 Monetary Reform; 3.7 National Accounting Reforms; 3.7.1 National Accounting Reform # 1-National Income; 3.7.2 National Accounting Reform # 2-Sustainable Economic Welfare; 3.7.3 National Accounting Reform # 3-Ecological Economic Efficiency