Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development

Sustainable development: environmental limits and the limits of economics

Environmental problems indicator under environmental modeling toward sustainable development

This research aims to apply a model to the study and analysis of environmental and natural resource costs created in supply chains of goods and services produced in Thailand, and propose indicators for environmental problem management, caused by goods and services production, based on concepts of sustainable production and consumer behavior. The research showed that the highest environmental co...

Sustainable Development and Environmental Health Literacy in Iran

Economics and Governance for Sustainable Development

Introduction In this chapter we assess the role of economics in governance for sustainable development. Firstly, we ask how has the ‘mainstream’ environmental and resource economics paradigm helped us understand the nature of sustainable development? We explain the context in which environmental and resource economics developed and the main propositions made during its formative years. These he...

Sustainable development: an ecological economics perspective

This paper offers a definition of sustainable development from an ecological economics perspective. For this, it begins with a historical analysis of the sustainable development concept from its origins as eco-development to its present formulation as green economy. it follows an assessment of the weak sustainability concept premises which allows for the neoclassical environmental economics not...