Sustainable Development Indicators in Ecological Economics

Edited by Philip Lawn, Flinders University, Australia

• Contents: Part I: Introduction to Sustainable Development Indicators 1. IntroductionPhilip Lawn2. Sustainable Development: Concept and IndicatorsPhilip LawnPart II: Sustainable Development and National Accounting 3. The Economic Rationale for Green AccountingSalah El Serafy4. Environmental Accounting and Policy MakingJohn Lintott5. Estimating the Economic Impacts of Climate Change by Means of Green AccountingH. Asbjørn Aaheim6. A Critical Appraisal of Genuine Savings as an Indicator of SustainabilitySimon Dietz and Eric NeumayerPart III: Sustainable Development and Welfare 7. An Assessment of Alternative Measures of Sustainable Economic WelfarePhilip Lawn8. Policy Implications of the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare: Thailand as a Case StudyMatthew Clarke9. Some Constructive Criticisms of the Index of Sustainable Economic WelfareSimon Dietz and Eric NeumayerPart IV: Sustainable Development and Natural Capital Accounting 10. Measurement of the Natural Capital Stock: Conceptual Foundations and Preliminary EmpiricsRichard W. England11. Indicators and Measures of Critical Natural CapitalRudolf de Groot, Lars Hein, Carolien Kroeze, Rik Leemans and David Niemeijer12. Ecological Footprint Accounts for Advancing Sustainability: Measuring Human Demands on NatureMathis Wackernagel, Dan Moran, Sahm White and Michael Murray13. Managing for Sustainability: Ecological Footprints, Ecosystem Health and the Forest Capital IndexDavid Rapport and Ola Ullsten Part V: Sustainable Development and Indicators of Human–Environment Interaction 14. Sustainability Scenarios as Interpretive Frameworks for Indicators of Human–Environment InteractionJanne Hukkinen15. Getting the Most Out of Eco-Efficiency Indicators for PolicyNigel Jollands16. Eco-Efficiency Indicators Applied to Australia and their Policy RelevancePhilip Lawn17. Material Flow-Based Indicators for Evaluation of Eco-Efficiency and Dematerialisation PoliciesStefan Giljum Part VI: Concluding Assessments of Sustainable Development Indicators18. Sustainable Development Indicators and Human NeedsJohn Peet19. Selecting Headline Indicators for Tracking Progress to Sustainability in a Nation StateMurray PattersonIndex

'The book covers a wide range of concepts pertaining to the sustainable development and successfully captures the inter-connectivity of environmental preservation and sustainable development.'