Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of tables, figures and text boxes -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 WHAT ON EARTH IS WRONG? -- 1.1 Development and environment: from global discussion to global frustration -- 1.2 Diagnosis: a planet at risk -- 1.3 Evaluation: how bad is it? -- 2 ACCOUNTING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- 2.1 Environment and economic process -- 2.2 A system for integrated environmental and economic accounting -- 2.3 Pricing the priceless: the limits of monetary valuation -- 2.4 Case-studies -- 3 ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT-A MATTER OF SUSTAINABILITY? -- 3.1 Sustainability criteria -- 3.2 Definitions of sustainable growth and development -- 3.3 Sustainability and optimality -- 4 PLANNING AND POLICIES I: SUSTAINABLE GROWTH AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE -- 4.1 Policy framework -- 4.2 Eco-variables in macroeconomics -- 4.3 Cost internalization and structural change -- 5 PLANNING AND POLICIES II: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- 5.1 Integrated planning and policies -- 5.2 Grass-roots strategies: ecodevelopment -- 5.3 Implementation: towards a national action plan for sustainable development -- 6 OUTLOOK: FROM NATIONAL TO GLOBAL COMPACTS -- 6.1 Towards global sustainability -- 6.2 Earth Summit: an agenda for the twenty-first century -- 6.3 From national to global compacts -- References -- Index.

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