Weak Versus Strong Sustainability: Exploring the Limits of Two Opposing Paradigms, Fourth EditionThis fourth edition of an enduring and popular book has been fully updated and revised, exploring the two opposing paradigms of sustainability in an insightful and accessible way. Eric Neumayer contends that central to the debate on sustainable developmen |
Contents
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Conceptual Ethical and Paradigmatic Issues | 8 |
Is Natural Capital Substitutable? | 49 |
4 Preserving Natural Capital in a World of Risk Uncertainty and Ignorance | 102 |
5 Measuring Weak Sustainability | 132 |
6 Measuring Strong Sustainability | 169 |
7 Conclusions | 191 |
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