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| Author: | Spangenberg, J. H. Omann, I. Hinterberger, F. |
| Title: | Sustainable growth criteria: Minimum benchmarks and scenarios for employment and the environment |
| Journal: | Ecological Economics
2002 : SEP, VOL. 42:3, p. 429-444 |
| Index terms: | SCENARIOS BENCHMARKING ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY EMPLOYMENT |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The relationship of economic growth and environmental impact has spurred fierce debates between growth optimists referring to the phenomenon of the environmental Kuznets curve, and pessimists referring to the limits to growth. However, no operational set of simple criteria has been developed so far to assess the sustainability of a given growth pattern. This is all the more true for measures combining environmental and social criteria. The paper undertakes to sketch out such criteria, and to assess them by applying them to transdiciplinary sustainability scenarios and model simulations with PANTA RHEI, one of the most complex models of the German economy. |
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