Sustainability economics: Where do we stand?

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  • Robert U. Ayres
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Article history: Received 12 September 2007 Received in revised form 8 December 2007 Accepted 8 December 2007 Available online 22 January 2008 Environmental economics, which is a branch of resource economics – the environment as a scarce resource – is essentially about market failures, the costs of pollution and pollution abatement, and the economics of regulation. Sustainability economics includes the problem of maintainingeconomicgrowth,while reducingpollutionand/or its impacts,withspecial attention to the linked problems of energy supply (not tomention the supply other exhaustible resources), climate change and –most urgently – fossil fuel consumption. There is a need for integration of resource and environmental economics under a new rubric, sustainability economics. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007