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Sustainable Development [electronic resource]: Critical Issues / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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Paris : OECD Publishing, 2001.
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2001.
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1 online resource (490 p.)
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""FOREWORD""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""Section I""; ""Chapter 1.""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""Chapter 1. ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL TRENDS""; ""Introduction""; ""Economic growth, technology and globalisation""; ""Figure 1.1. Long-term trends in real GDP per capita in major world regions""; ""...
""Figure 1.4. Annual freshwater withdrawals, 1997""""Figure 1.5. Trends in environment and natural resources in OECD countries""; ""Table 1.3. Environmental factors affecting health""; ""Figure 1.6. Economic losses from large weather-related disasters""; ""Figure 1.7. World population projections"";...
""REFERENCES""""Chapter 2.""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""Chapter 2. KEY FEATURES AND PRINCIPLES""; ""Introduction""; ""Historical background""; ""Interactions among key dimensions of sustainable development""; ""Figure 2.1. Some interactions between economic, social and environmental factors""; ""Need...
""Valuation and aggregation of different types of capital""""Internalising externalities and providing public goods""; ""Figure 2.3. Total value of natural capital""; ""Population size and per capita well-being""; ""Future generations: time horizons and discount rates""; ""Risks and uncertainties"";...
""Introduction""""Measurement considerations""; ""Box 3.1. OECD work relevant to sustainable development measurement""; ""Assessing overall sustainability""; ""Box 3.2. Genuine savings as an indicator of sustainable development""; ""Figure 3.1. Genuine savings rates, 1998""; ""Frameworks for measuri...
""Table 3.1. Resource indicators""
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How can we meet the needs of today without diminishing the capacity of future generations to meet theirs? This is the central question posed by "sustainable development". OECD countries committed themselves to sustainable development at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio, yet - almost ten years later - progress accomplishe...
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Sustainable Development [electronic resource]: Critical Issues / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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Sustainable development
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92-64-19318-9
1-280-08343-3
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333.72
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991023942558802626
