Part Ⅰ Ethical Values and Unsustainability Concerns
Chapter 1 Ethical Considerations of the Environment .................... /3
1.1 Land as an Organic Community ................................... /3
1.2 Respect for Nature ............................................. /7
1.3 Intra-and Inter-generational Equity ............................ /15
1.4 Environmental Ethics as Behavioural Principles for
Sustainable Development ....................................... /18
Chapter 2 Unsustainability Concerns Over the Environment ............... /20
2.1 Market Failures ................................................ /20
2.2 Uncertainty and Irreversibility ................................ /25
2.3 Trade-offs ..................................................... /29
2.4 Environmental Kuznetz Curve .................................... /31
2.5 Population Growth Pressure on the Environment .................. /44
Chapter 3 Indicators of Environmental Status ........................... /47
3.1 Market Parameters .............................................. /47
3.2 Comprehensive Economic Indicators .............................. /51
3.3 Physical Indices ............................................... /56
Part ⅡEconomic Analysis of Major Approaches to Sustainable Development
Chapter 4 Doctrines of Classical Economics ............................. /63
4.1 Absolute Resource Scarcity ..................................... /63
4.2 Relative Resource Scarcity ..................................... /65
4.3 Static State Economy ........................................... /66
4.4 Natural Harmony ................................................ /68
Chapter 5 Neo-classical Economic Principles ............................ /71
5.1 Efficient Resource Allocation .................................. /71
5.2 Market Supremacy ............................................... /79
5.3 Coase Theorem .................................................. /82
5.4 Tradable Pollution Permit Systems .............................. /91
5.5 Environmental Regulation ....................................... /101
Chapter 6 Resource Limits and Sustainable Society ...................... /105
6.1 The Limits to Growth ........................................... /106
6.2 Cost and Time-lag Effect ....................................... /114
6.3 Resource Limits,Efficiency and Substitutions ................... /121
6.4 Limits or a Sustainable Society ................................ /130
Chapter 7 Capacity Building for Sustainable Development ................ /139
7.1 Historical Background .......................................... /139
7.2 Capacity Building .............................................. /143
7.3 Environmental Capacity ......................................... /152
7.4 Constant Resource Asset ........................................ /159
Chapter 8 Green Development ............................................ /163
8.1 Conceptual Development ......................................... /163
8.2 Sustainable Agriculture ........................................ /169
Part Ⅲ Economic Efficiency with Environmental Sustainability
Chapter 9 Optimal Control of Environmental Sustainability .............. /181
9.1 Interactions between Efficiency and Sustainability ............. /181
9.2 A Model of Optimal Control ..................................... /183
9.3 Market Parameters and Physical Capitals ........................ /189
9.4 Empirical Assessment ........................................... /194
9.5 Policy Implications ............................................ /200
Chapter 10 Multiple Objective Decision Making and Economic Policies .... /204
10.1 Socio-economic Versus Environmental Systems Analysis .......... /204
10.2 Economic,Social and Environmental Objectives .................. /206
10.3 Multiple Objective Decision Making ............................ /208
10.4 Economic Policies ............................................. /211
10.5 Green Accounting .............................................. /215
Part Ⅳ Casespecific Analysis
Chapter 11 Total Economic Values of Land Resources ..................... /223
11.1 Land and Land Use ............................................. /223
11.2 Land as a Resource ............................................ /230
11.3 Land Resource Values .......................................... /235
11.4 Factors Influencing Land Values ............................... /244
11.5 Evaluation and Realisation of Land Resource Values ............ /252
Chapter 12 The Control of Environmental Cost:The Case of
Three Gorges′ Resettlement Programme ...................... /258
12.1 Elements of Environmental Cost ................................ /259
12.2 Dynamic Features of Cost Elements ............................. /261
12.3 Estimates of Environmental Costs .............................. /266
12.4 Approaches to Environmental Cost Control ...................... /279
Chapter 13 Transfer of Water Reources:With Specific Reference
to the South-North Water-Transfer Project ................... /284
13.1 Market Mechanisms ............................................. /285
13.2 Water as an Economic Resource ................................. /287
13.3 Cost and Benefit Examination .................................. /288
13.4 Benefit Distribution .......................................... /292
Chapter 14 The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on the Environment ....... /296
14.1Environmental Implications of Trade Liberalisation .............. /297
14.2 The Impact of Environmental Cost Internalisation
on International Trade ........................................ /302
14.3 Environmental Rules in Trade Negotiations ..................... /305
14.4 SouthNorth Trade Relations and the Environment
in Developing Countries ....................................... /308
14.5 Institutional Arrangements .................................... /313
References .............................................................. /320
Postscript .............................................................. /334
Postscript of Republication ............................................. /336