TY  - BOOK
AU  - Costanza, Robert
AU  - Alperovitz, Gar
AU  - Daly, Herman
AU  - Farley, Joshua
AU  - Franco, Carol
AU  - Jackson, Tim
AU  - Kubiszewski, Ida
AU  - Schor, Juliet
AU  - Victor, Peter
AB  - The world has changed dramatically. We no longer live in a world relatively empty of humans and their artifacts. We now live in the “Anthropocene,” era in a full world where humans are dramatically altering our ecological life-support system. Our traditional economic concepts and models were developed in an empty world. If we are to create sustainable prosperity, if we seek “improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities,” we are going to need a new vision of the economy and its relationship to the rest of the world that is better adapted to the new conditions we face. We are going to need an economics that respects planetary boundaries, that recognizes the dependence of human well-being on social relations and fairness, and that recognizes that the ultimate goal is real, sustainable human well-being, not merely growth of material consumption. This new economics recognizes that the economy is embedded in a society and culture that are themselves embedded in an ecological life-support system, and that the economy cannot grow forever on this finite planet. In this report, we discuss the need to focus more directly on the goal of sustainable human well-being rather than merely GDP growth. This includes protecting and restoring nature, achieving social and intergenerational fairness (including poverty alleviation), stabilizing population, and recognizing the significant nonmarket contributions to human well-being from natural and social capital. To do this, we need to develop better measures of progress that go well beyond GDP and begin to measure human well-being and its sustainability more directly.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_462196
ID  - OAPEN ID: 462196
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030815851
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33515
KW  - environmental policy
KW  - economic development--environmental aspects
KW  - Ecosystem
KW  - Ecosystem services
KW  - Gross domestic product
KW  - Natural capital
KW  - Quality of life
KW  - Social capital
KW  - Well-being
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33515/1/462196.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33515/1/462196.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33515/1/462196.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35140
PB  - ANU Press
PP  - Canberra
PY  - 2013
SN  - 9781921862052
TI  - Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature : Report to the United Nations for the 2012 Rio+20 Conference
ER  - 
