Unveiling Wealth On Money, Quality of Life and Sustainability /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bartelmus, Peter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• 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.

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 — accounting for sustainability
• Discussion
• On expectations and efforts — some introductory observations
• Indicators for sustainable development — a systems analysis approach
• Economic, ecological and social indicators
• Acquisition and numerical hocuspocus — profits and costs are misleading targets and indicators
• The debate about sustainability in industry
• Indicators of sustainable employment
• Discussion
• Dematerialisation and energy efficiency — the message of ecoindicators
• Material Flow Analysis — unveiling the physical basis of economies
• Emergy accounting
• Assessment of sustainability in growth and development—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.