Economic Evaluation Of Sustainable Development

Author : Vinod Thomas,Namrata Chindarkar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811363894

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Economic Evaluation of Sustainable Development by Vinod Thomas,Namrata Chindarkar Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents methods to evaluate sustainable development using economic tools. The focus on sustainable development takes the reader beyond economic growth to encompass inclusion, environmental stewardship and good governance. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a framework for outcomes. In illustrating the SDGs, the book employs three evaluation approaches: impact evaluation, cost-benefit analysis and objectives-based evaluation. The innovation lies in connecting evaluation tools with economics. Inclusion, environmental care and good governance, thought of as “wicked problems”, are given centre stage. The book uses case studies to show the application of evaluation tools. It offers guidance to evaluation practitioners, students of development and policymakers. The basic message is that evaluation comes to life when its links with socio-economic, environmental, and governance policies are capitalized on.

Author : Vinod Thomas,Namrata Chindarkar
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811363919

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Economic Evaluation of Sustainable Development by Vinod Thomas,Namrata Chindarkar Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents methods to evaluate sustainable development using economic tools. The focus on sustainable development takes the reader beyond economic growth to encompass inclusion, environmental stewardship and good governance. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a framework for outcomes. In illustrating the SDGs, the book employs three evaluation approaches: impact evaluation, cost-benefit analysis and objectives-based evaluation. The innovation lies in connecting evaluation tools with economics. Inclusion, environmental care and good governance, thought of as “wicked problems”, are given centre stage. The book uses case studies to show the application of evaluation tools. It offers guidance to evaluation practitioners, students of development and policymakers. The basic message is that evaluation comes to life when its links with socio-economic, environmental, and governance policies are capitalized on.

Author : Ian Goldin,L. Alan Winters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521469570

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The Economics of Sustainable Development by Ian Goldin,L. Alan Winters Pdf

This book applies rigorous economic analysis to the question of sustainable development. It considers the inter-relationship between growth and sustainability showing that one does not necessarily exist to the detriment of the other. Sustainability may be measured and defined in national accounting terms and the contributors explore a potentially powerful theoretical definition. Case studies on Morocco and China examine some of the domestic policy requirements of sustainability, revealing the desirability of quite complex combinations of policies. International policy aspects of sustainability are considered, such as technology transfers and the establishment of workable agreements to reduce global pollution. The volume demonstrates the need to build the sustainability debate on sound economic foundations, and the ability of economists to provide such foundations.

Author : Anneke von Raggamby,Frieder Rubik
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781953525

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Sustainable Development, Evaluation and Policy-Making by Anneke von Raggamby,Frieder Rubik Pdf

This pathbreaking book contributes to the discourse of evidence-based policy-making. It does so by combining the two issues of policy evaluation and sustainable development linking both to the policy-cycle. It covers contributions: · examining the perception of sustainability problems, which analyse the relationship between sustainability and assessment; · highlighting the role of evaluation and impact assessment studies during policy formulation; · looking at policy implementation by examining sustainability and impact assessment systems in different application areas; · addressing policy reformulation presenting monitoring and quality improvement schemes; · discussing quality of sustainability evaluations studies. Providing theoretic insights, reflections and case studies, this novel study will prove essential to postgraduate students, practitioners, policymakers and researchers in the area of sustainable development, policy-making and evaluation.

Author : Giuseppe Munda
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540737032

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Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation for a Sustainable Economy by Giuseppe Munda Pdf

One of the main novelties of this book is its establishment of a clear relationship between social and public choice on one hand and multiple criteria decision analysis on the other. This relationship leads to the new concept of Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation (SMCE). SMCE is proposed as a policy framework to integrate different scientific languages, for example, when concerns about civil society and future generations have to be considered along with policy imperatives and market conditions.

Author : John Pezzey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : OCLC:1132100969

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Sustainable Development Concept by John Pezzey Pdf

Author : John Pezzey
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : World Bank
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008637915

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Sustainable Development Concepts by John Pezzey Pdf

Concepts; The growing recognition of sustainable development as a policy goal; Purpose of this paper; Methodology used; Structure of the paper; Some issues to be addressed; Measuring the economy and the environment; Definitions of growth, development, and sustainability concepts; Optimal control and sustainability; Applications; Economic growth and the environment - balancing consumption and clean-up expenditure; Non-renewable resources I: sustainability and the discount rate; Non-renewable resource II: sustainability and environmental dependence combined; Non-renewable resources III: the role of investment, and technological limits to growth; Renewable resources: poverty, survival, and outside assistance; Income distribution and sustainable development; Are discount rates too high? Information and uncertainty; Operationality: putting the ideas into practice; Conclusions and suggestions for further work.

Author : Judy Brown,Peter Soderbaum,Malgorzata Dereniowska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351798020

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Positional Analysis for Sustainable Development by Judy Brown,Peter Soderbaum,Malgorzata Dereniowska Pdf

Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution of land and water, land-use changes, lack of equality and other problems at local, national and global levels represent a challenge for economics as a social science. Mainstream neoclassical economics may be able to contribute to a more sustainable society but it has also played a dominant role in a period where problems have been aggravated. A pluralist and democratic view of economics is therefore very much warranted. This book presents a multidimensional and ideologically more open view of economics: understanding economics in multidimensional terms is in accordance with the 17 sustainable development goals recognized by nations at the UN-level in 2015. Accordingly, approaches to decision making and accounting at the national- and business levels have to be reconsidered. Neoclassical Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) with focus on the monetary dimension and an assumed consensus about a specific market ideology to be applied is not compatible with democratic societies where citizen and actors in other roles normally differ with respect to ideological orientation. Environmental Impact Statements and Multi-Criteria methods are used to some extent to broaden approaches to decision-making. In this book, Positional Analysis is advocated as a multidimensional and ideologically open approach. Positional Analysis is based on a political economic conceptual framework (as part of ecological economics) that differs from neoclassical ideas of individuals, firms and markets. And since approaches to decision-making and to accounting are closely connected, a new theoretical perspective in economics similarly raises issues of how national and business accounting can be opened up to meet present demands among various actors in society. This perspective raises also numerous ethical questions at the science and policy interface that need to be properly addressed for sustainability decision making.

Author : Nan Chai
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048130122

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Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government by Nan Chai Pdf

Progressing towards sustainable development raises important challenges to conducting performance evaluations in governments because there are neither generally accepted methods nor specific standards to be met at present. Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government, makes a conceptual contribution to public sustainability performance evaluation and develops a set of framework indicators with the help of the strategic and comprehensive approach “Sustainability Balanced Scorecard”. As a conceptual basis for the further research and application, this volume will be of great interest to researchers and practitioners at many levels of environmental / sustainability, public management and strategic control studies. Evaluators will find methodological approaches and applied tools for their work. Decision-makers and managers will find it valuable to manage the social, economic and environmental issues in a balanced and integrated manner. Governments will also find it helpful in assisting them in establishing an evaluation system towards sustainable development.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264047266

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OECD Sustainable Development Studies Conducting Sustainability Assessments by OECD Pdf

Reviews the state of the art in conducting sustainability assessments, including the range of methodologies and tools available.

Author : Clive George,Colin H. Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847205407

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Impact Assessment and Sustainable Development by Clive George,Colin H. Kirkpatrick Pdf

'Impact assessment of various types is now a widely used policy tool. This volume helpfully brings together conceptual discussions and case-studies to illustrate how impact assessment can be used to address issues of sustainability. It should be of considerable interest both to academic researchers and to practitioners concerned with the implementation of policies to support sustainable development.' - John Weiss, University of Bradford, UK The translation of the principle of sustainable development into policy and practice, and the evaluation of the outcomes of these strategic interventions, are some of the most pressing challenges facing policymakers in Europe and beyond. By exploring the conceptual and methodological issues relating to the evaluation of sustainable development, and analysing European practice and experience, the sixteen chapters in this volume provide a coherent and integrated contribution to our understanding of these issues. This volume will be of interest to researchers, policy analysts and practitioners in the area of impact assessment and sustainable development.

Author : J. T. Winpenny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Cost effectiveness
ISBN : MINN:31951D00511970O

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Values for the Environment by J. T. Winpenny Pdf

Time and resources are often limiting factors to the project analyst, so practicality forms an integral part of this guide to the economic evaluation of the impact of projects on the environment. It makes use of case material, using cost-benefit analysis as the decision framework.

Author : Giuseppe T. Cirella
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811530494

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Sustainable Human–Nature Relations by Giuseppe T. Cirella Pdf

This book addresses sustainability thinking and the bigger picture, by taking into consideration how and from where contemporary schools of thought emerged approximately a quarter-century ago. Evidence from the literature illustrates a number of key concepts and techniques that have been tested and continue to be tested, within various multi-disciplinary fields, on societal functionality. Research into sustainable societies needs to be sound, ethical, and creative. A cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary examination of challenges and strategies is used to interlink sustainability thinking and human-nature relations. With an ever-growing number of people now concentrated within urban areas, providing not only environmental quality and livable space, but also security and resilient urban systems, is becoming increasingly important. This urbanization trend has overlapped with environmental degradation, consumption of natural resources, habitat loss, and overall ecosystem change. Consequently, the goal is for cleaner, safer societies – with higher standards of living – to excel in support of current and future generational communities. The book tackles these challenges by integrating environmental scholarship, economic evaluation, and urban strategies under one umbrella of thought. The relational paradigms presented include examples that correlate developed and developing countries, socioeconomics and community development, and governance of knowledge and education. As such, the book argues, furthering of knowhow should be accessible and shared in order to achieve maximum innovation and benefit. Sustainability thinking, after all, is a metric for intrinsic human-nature relations in terms of past performance, present development, and future goals. This book discusses this metric and offers novel approaches to growing societies and what we can do next.

Author : Karl W. Steininger,Martin König,Birgit Bednar-Friedl,Lukas Kranzl,Wolfgang Loibl,Franz Prettenthaler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319124575

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Economic Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts by Karl W. Steininger,Martin König,Birgit Bednar-Friedl,Lukas Kranzl,Wolfgang Loibl,Franz Prettenthaler Pdf

This volume deals with the multifaceted and interdependent impacts of climate change on society from the perspective of a broad set of disciplines. The main objective of the book is to assess public and private cost of climate change as far as quantifiable, while taking into account the high degree of uncertainty. It offers new insights for the economic assessment of a broad range of climate change impact chains at a national scale. The framework presented in the book allows consistent evaluation including mutual interdependencies and macroeconomic feedback. This book develops a toolbox that can be used across the many areas of climate impact and applies it to one particular country: Austria.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264984028

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Applying Evaluation Criteria Thoughtfully by OECD Pdf

Relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability are widely used evaluation criteria, particularly in international development co-operation. They help to determine the merit or worth of various interventions, such as strategies, policies, programmes or projects. This guidance aims to help evaluators and others to better understand those criteria, and improve their use.