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Sustainable Development and Economic Growth
1995Since its introduction into mainstream environmental thought via the Brundtland Commission report (Brundtland 1987), the meaning of the term ‘sustainable development’ has seemingly acquired several connotations based on its broad definition. One is that, to many environmentalists, sustainable development is desirable only if it means economic ...
Joel E. Reichart, Patricia H. Werhane
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Economic Growth and Sustainable Development
2012The ongoing climate and resource and financial crises underscore the failure of a prosperity model based on growth and dependency on consumption. No ecological uncoupling of economic growth measured in money is in sight. In an expanding economy, “rebound effects” wipe out advances in dematerialisation or ecologisation as result of growing demand ...
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Economics, Sustainable Growth, and Community
Environmental Values, 1993Sustainable growth is emerging as a normative concept in recent work in economics and environmental philosophy. This paper examines several kinds of growth, seeking to identify a sustainable form which could be adopted as normative for human society. The conceptions of growth expressed in standard economic theory, in the writings of John Dewey, and ...
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Defining Sustainable Economic Growth
This chapter aims to unravel the various, and at times contradictory, definitions of sustainable development that have been used over the years. The primary motivating factor for this analysis is that if we, as a society, truly believe that sustainability for current and future generations is indeed a desirable outcome, then it makes sense to ...openaire +1 more source
Sustaining Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
2009Theoretical Analyses of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.- Introduction: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Germany and India.- The Contribution of Entrepreneurship to Economic Growth.- Efficient Transfer of Public Scientific R&D to Private Firms.- Investing in Labor and Technology: Two "Faces" in India. Comparison of SMEs in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.-
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Economic Governance and Sustainable Growth
This chapter looks at how economic governance and specifically in the case of the European Union (EU) how the new fiscal rules could either help or hinder Europe from achieving sustainable economic growth in the context of global developments and the new geopolitical order that is unfolding, as well as the demands being made by European businesses to ...openaire +1 more source