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Weak Versus Strong Sustainability |
Eric Neumayer, Professor of Environment and Development, Department of Geography and Environment and Associate, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
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| 2003 |
296 pp |
Hardback |
978 1 84376 488 5 |
£75.00 |
on-line discount
£67.50 |
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| 2004 |
296 pp |
Paperback |
978 1 84542 215 8 |
£28.50 |
on-line discount
£22.80 |
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Acclaim for the first edition:
‘Eric Neumayer brings light into the shadow of many debates between ecological and neoclassically oriented economists. This important book provides a new and pluralistic view on some important questions for the 21st century.’
– Friedrich Hinterberger, Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Austria
‘As a partisan in the debate that Neumayer is trying to discuss neutrally, I will not be expected to agree with everything he says – and I don’t. However, the book is well worth reading because it deals, often insightfully, with a highly important topic, and the referencing is admirable. Neumayer shows that ecological and neoclassical economists really can communicate, if only by shouting, across the paradigmatic chasm that he is rightly at pains to emphasize.’
– Herman Daly, University of Maryland, US
In this fully updated and revised edition of an original and popular text, Eric Neumayer offers an authoritative contribution to one of the most important questions concerning sustainable development: can natural capital 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. This insightful book identifies the critical forms of natural capital in need of preservation and evaluates the most important indicators of weak and strong sustainability.
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Contents: Preface to the Second Edition 1. Introduction and Overview 2. Sustainable Development: Conceptual, Ethical and Paradigmatic Issues 3. Resources, the Environment and Economic Growth: Why Both Paradigms of Sustainability are Non-Falsifiable 4. Preserving Natural Capital in a World of Risk, Uncertainty and Ignorance 5. Measuring Weak Sustainability 6. Measuring Strong Sustainability 7. Conclusions Bibliography Index
View the author's website at
http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/geography/Eric1.htm
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