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| Author: | Bartelmus, P. |
| Title: | Dematerialization and capital maintenance: two sides of the sustainability coin |
| Journal: | Ecological Economics
2003 : AUG, VOL. 46:1, p. 61-81 |
| Index terms: | Capital Environmental accounting Sustainable development |
| Freeterms: | Dematerialization |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The reductionist trend of equating sustainable development with sustained economic growth needs to be reversed. New accounts and balances help to operationalize the elusive notion of sustainability: they provide a coherent picture of the interaction between environment and economy. "Greened" national accounts measure economic sustainability in terms of capital maintenance; balances of material flows assess ecological sustainability as the dematerialization of production and consumption. Both concepts aim to preserve environmental assets, but differ in scope, strength and evaluation of sustainability. |
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