Unveiling Wealth On Money, Quality of Life and Sustainability /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bartelmus, Peter. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Subjects: Environment.; Accounting.; Bookkeeping.; Environmental management.; Pollution prevention.; Environmental economics.; Environmental Management.; Environmental Economics.; Industrial Pollution Prevention.; Accounting/Auditing.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Does money blur perspectives for a better life? Lifting the money veil from our yardsticks of progress, income and wealth, reveals the trade-offs of economic growth. The book presents new indicators of the social, economic and ecological impacts of our lifestyles and production techniques. The indic...

Table of Contents:

• Unveiled wealth takes environmental cost into account
• Unveiling wealth Ớ accounting for sustainability
• Discussion
• On expectations and efforts Ớ some introductory observations
• Indicators for sustainable development Ớ a systems analysis approach
• Economic, ecological and social indicators
• Acquisition and numerical hocuspocus Ớ profits and costs are misleading targets and indicators
• The debate about sustainability in industry
• Indicators of sustainable employment
• Discussion
• Dematerialisation and energy efficiency Ớ the message of ecoindicators
• Material Flow Analysis Ớ unveiling the physical basis of economies
• Emergy accounting
• Assessment of sustainability in growth and developmentỚ approaches and policy applications
• Questions and Answers
• How can sustainability become a measure of success in politics ?
• Economic growth models and the role of physical resources
• Post-fossil development patterns in the North
• Outlook: From paradigm to policy.