Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment
Partha Dasgupta
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23398576 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Partha Dasgupta (University of Cambridge) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Pages | 305 |
| Publication date | 2001-11-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Human well-being and the natural environment (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/0199247889.001.0001 |
| Open Library | OL17038651M |
| ISBN | 9780199247882 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 98 |
| References cited | 228 |
This book explores ways to measure the quality of life, a problem pervading a number of academic disciplines, but not confined to the academic realm. Indices of human well‐being in current use are insensitive to human dependence on the natural environment, both at a moment in time and across generations. Moreover, international discussions on economic development in poor regions frequently ignore the natural resource base. In developing quality‐of‐life measures, the author pays particular attention to the natural environment, illustrating how it can be incorporated, more generally, into economic reasoning. The discussion offers a comprehensive account of the newly emergent subject of ecological economics. Connections between biodiversity, ecosystem services, resource scarcities, and economic possibilities for the future are developed in a quantitative but accessible language. Familiar terms such as ‘sustainable development’, ‘social discount rates’ and Earth's ‘carrying capacity’ are given a firm theoretical underpinning. The theory developed is used in extended commentaries on the economics of population, poverty traps, global warming, structural adjustment programmes and free trade. The author shows that, whether for valuing the state of affairs in a country or evaluating economic policy there, the index that should be used is the economy's wealth, which is the social worth of its capital assets. The concept of wealth adopted is comprehensive, including not only manufactured assets but also human capital, knowledge, and the natural environment. Wealth is contrasted with popular measures of human well‐being, such as gross national product and the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Index. The theory is applied repeatedly to data on poor countries, revealing a picture that contrasts sharply with that portrayed in the contemporary literature on economic development.
Environmental economics · Environmental quality · Human beings · Human ecology · Management · Natural resources · Philosophy of nature · Quality of life · Sustainable development
Of ends and means
Paying for Ecosystem Services—Promise and Peril
Applying the ecosystem services concept to poverty alleviation
C Haracterizing and M Easuring S Ustainable D Evelopment
Sustainability and the measurement of wealth
Economic Analysis for Ecosystem Service Assessments
Discounting climate change
Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature
Future People
The Social Cost of Carbon
Agriculture and the threat to biodiversity in sub-saharan africa
Mathematical modelling of urban sprawl
Demography and well-being
Government efficiency, natural resources management and economic performance
Changing contexts of common and collective in goodness, a continuing thread in socio-economic-ecological thought in the triple bottom-line for sustainability
Ecosystem changes and community wellbeing
Green Energy and Land Resources
Wealth of Peruvian fishery
Intergenerational equity and sustainability
Self‐control protects Tibetan adolescent orphans from mental problems
What the Demands of Sustainability Can(not) Be
Sustainability thinking in environmental assessment
Engagement to Enhance Community
Prosperity, Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth
Determinants of Large City Slum Incidence in India
Easterlin-paradox
Economic Evaluation in an Age of Uncertainty
Women as marginal workers in informal mining and quarrying, India
Conceptual practice of ‘rural wellbeing’ in Uzbekistan
Sustainability
Evaluation of sustainable happiness with Sustainable Development Goals
Poorer without It? The Neglected Role of the Natural Environment in Poverty and Wellbeing
Sustainable development policy
Regarding Optimum Population
Facts, Theories, Values and Destitution in the Works of Sir Partha Dasgupta
Environment and Development
Causes of Forest Encroachment
L a soutenabilité du développement en R ussie durant la décennie 1998-2008
La soutenabilité du développement en Russie durant la décennie 1998-2008
Environmental issues
The Construction of a Synthetic Index Comparing Multidimensional Well-Being in the European Union
Measuring World Better Life Frontier
Incorporating Sustainability Concerns in the Better Life Index
An Assessment of the Quality of Life in the European Union Based on the Social Indicators Approach
The Cost of Well-Being
Measuring longevity achievements under welfare interdependencies
The Electoral Dynamics of Human Development
A personal view
Self, Nature and Well-Being
The natural capital framework for sustainably efficient and equitable decision making
Modifying national accounts for sustainable ocean development
Towards a multidimensional biodiversity index for national application
Climate change, intergenerational equity and the social discount rate
Turismo e paesaggio. Le prospettive del Masterplan del turismo culturale nel trapanese1
Regional comparison of the structure of human well-being related to ecosystem services in coastal areas of Japan
The idea of sustainable development
Inclusive wealth footprint for cities in Japan
Mixed impacts of protected areas and a cash crop boom on human well‐being in North‐Eastern Madagascar
A well‐being framework for cross‐cultural assessment of development scenarios
On the theory-practice gap in the environmental realm
Development of a multidisciplinary approach to assess regional sustainability
Sustainability and the measurement of future paths in genuine savings
Measuring future paths of alternative sustainability indicators
Solving the human predicament
New and Emerging Challenges to Heritage and Well-Being
Sustainability
A study on forecasting paths of genuine savings and wealth without and with carbon dioxide constraints
Measuring sustainable development for the future with climate change mitigation; a case study of applying an integrated assessment model under IPCC SRES scenarios
Measuring future dynamics of genuine saving with changes of population and technology
On shadow prices for the measurement of sustainability
Genuine savings as a test of New Zealand weak sustainability
A novel and holistic model to quantify the impact of anthropogeomorphic process in any ecumene
A Review of the Elements of Human Well-Being with an Emphasis on the Contribution of Ecosystem Services
Welfare, Growth and Environment
Measuring Political Commitment to Reducing Hunger and Under-nutrition
How does urban policy influence quality of life? The case of Canberra, Australia
Looted artifacts and museums' perpetuation of imperialism and racism
Shades of red and blue
Sustainable Development in an N-Rich/N-Poor World
State Involvement and Forest Co-Governance
Well-Being as an Object of Science
Poverty as social deprivation
Can the Science of Well-Being Be Objective
On Population and Resources
Building a Multidimensional Wellbeing Index for Rural Populations in Northeastern Namibia
Toward an improved, holistic understanding of ‘meaningful destination
The Italian Regional Well-Being in a Multi-expert Non-additive Perspective
The (im)possibility of development studies
Children and the Rights of Citizens
Well-being and Philosophy of Science
Demography and Policy
A'uwẽ (Xavante) Social Constructions of Well-Being in Central Brazil
Sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Growth and Development
Genuine Savings
Suma qamañain Bolivia
On "Affluent Philosophy" and Future Generations
Employing the Capability Approach in Conceptualizing Sustainable Development
Governing the Commons
Ethics out of Economics
World Conservation Strategy
Height, Health and History
The Rise of the Western World
Optimum Growth in an Aggregative Model of Capital Accumulation
Genuine Savings Rates in Developing Countries
Equity, Arrow's Conditions, and Rawls' Difference Principle
Land Rights Systems and Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Optimal Depletion of Exhaustible Resources
Anomalies in Intertemporal Choice
Stationary Ordinal Utility and Impatience
Reciprocity as a Contract Enforcement Device
Environmental taxation and the double dividend
Notes on the measurement of inequality
A Reformulation of Certain Aspects of Welfare Economics
Human Appropriation of the Products of Photosynthesis
Natural resources, national accounting and economic depreciation
Environmental Preservation, Uncertainty, and Irreversibility
Uncertain Lifetime, Life Insurance, and the Theory of the Consumer
V.—utilitarianism and New Generations
Land Tenure and Property Rights
On the Intergenerational Allocation of Natural Resources
Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment
Intergenerational Equity and Exhaustible Resources
The New Growth Evidence
Democracy and growth
Thresholds and breakpoints in ecosystems with a multiplicity of stable states
Risk and Insurance in a Rural Credit Market
Agricultural Intensification and Ecosystem Properties
Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting
The Bargaining Problem
Problems of Population Theory Obligations to Future Generations . R. I. Sikora , Brian Barry
Net national product, wealth, and social well-being
Gamma Discounting
On Second-Best National Saving and Game-Equilibrium Growth
Freedom, growth, and the environment
Standardization, Compatibility, and Innovation
Back to Bentham? Explorations of Experienced Utility
Policies to foster human capital
A Set of Independent Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Simple Majority Decision
Prices vs. Quantities
Land Reform, Poverty Reduction, and Growth
On the Welfare Significance of National Product in a Dynamic Economy
A New Set of International Comparisons of Real Product and Price Levels Estimates for 130 Countries, 1950–1985
Value and Population Size
An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation
Risk Aversion in the Small and in the Large
Positive Mathematical Programming
Deforestation and the Rule of Law in a Cross-Section of Countries
On economic causes of civil war
Impact of Population Growth
The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
Economic Growth and the Environment
Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems
The Quality of Growth
Mao's War against Nature
On the measurement of inequality
Social Norms and Economic Incentives in the Welfare State
Can Anyone Hear Us
An Economic Analysis of Air Pollution and Health
Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function
Inequality and Economic Growth
The Tragedy of the Commons
Population, consumption and resources
Links between rural poverty and the environment in developing countries
Brazilian policies that encourage deforestation in the Amazon
On measuring the quality of life
The impact of inequality, gender, external assistance and social capital on local-level cooperation
Widowhood and poverty in rural India
Data base for development analysis Data base for development analysis
Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict
Valuing the benefits of health and safety regulation
Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility
Social Cost of Environmental Quality Regulations
Any Non‐welfarist Method of Policy Assessment Violates the Pareto Principle
The Theory of Optimum Population for a Closed Economy
Inequality, Control Rights, and Rent Seeking
The Fishery
Catching Up, Forging Ahead, and Falling Behind
Why Have Some Indian States Done Better than Others at Reducing Rural Poverty
The Valuation of the Social Income
Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment
Problems of Industrialisation of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
The Economic Aspects of Slowing Population Growth
Nutrition, Non-Convexities and Redistributive Policies
Valuing Objects and Evaluating Policies in Imperfect Economies
Happiness, Economy and Institutions
Well-Being and the Extent of its Realisation in Poor Countries
The Place of Marshall's Principles in the Development of Economic Theory
Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment
What Explains the Success or Failure of Structural Adjustment Programmes
A Mathematical Theory of Saving
On Aggregate Empirical Studies Relating Population Variables to Economic Development
A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth
Rawlsian Global Justice
Savings and Fertility
A Theory of Full International Cooperation
Success on the Commons
Why do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output Per Worker than Others
| Unique citing works | 98 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,92 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 98 |