Sustainability economics -- General versus specific, and conceptual versus practical

Stefan Baumgärtner and Martin Quaas

Ecological Economics, 2010, vol. 69, issue 11, 2056-2059

Abstract: We clarify the definition and interpretation of "sustainability economics" (Baumgärtner and Quaas, 2010) in response to recent comments by van den Bergh (2010), Bartelmus (2010) and others. For that sake, we distinguish between general and specific definitions of sustainability and sustainability economics, as well as between conceptual and practical approaches.

Keywords: Economic; and; environmental; accounting; Efficiency; Externality; Joint; production; Justice; Stocks; Sustainability; economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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