Environmental Sustainability: A Consumption Approach [Hardcover]

Raghbendra Jha (Author), K.V. Bhanu Murthy (Author)

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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Aug 2 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415363462
ISBN-13: 978-0415363464
Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.6 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 522 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,033,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'This book is particularly recommendable to scholars interested in the driving forces of global environmental degradation, South-North environmental relations, and alternative approaches to address the relationship between economic development and the environment.' - Development and Change

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With globalization fast becoming an irreversible process, it is necessary to pay increased attention to the implications for environmental sustainability. However, the so-called environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) argument implies that rapid economic growth in many developing countries should be environmentally unsustainable.

Environmental Sustainability addresses this dichotomy and articulates a notion of consumption sustainability that is both universal and pertains to the indefinite future. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of addressing a broad spectrum of sources of environmental degradation and relates this measure to an index of economic achievement more complete than per capita income.

As well as the EKC, authors Jha and Murthy also critique the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) and empirically substantiate the proposition that a certain type of development in the presently high-income countries is primarily responsible for global environmental degradation. Several policy conclusions for global environmental management are also advanced.

Throughout, Jha and Murthy comprehensively evaluate existing approaches to environmental sustainability and critically review empirical studies of environmental degradation, and economic development, making this an invaluable source of information for those concerned with environmental economics and political economy.

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