Chapter 23: Economics, Environment, and Sustainability

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Genuine progress indicator
GDP plus the estimated value of beneficial transactions that meet basic needs, but in which no money changes hands, minus the estimated harmful environmental, health, and social costs of all transactions.
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Market price
Does not include indirect, external, or hidden costs.
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Perverse subsidies
Lead to environmental damage and should be phased out.
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Greenwashing
Deceptive practice and spin of environmentally harmful products as green.
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Economic succession
New and more innovative businesses.
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Economic growth
Increased capacity to supply goods and services, requires increased production and consumption, requires more consumers.
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Green taxes
So that harmful products and services are at the true cost.
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Gross domestic product
Annual market value of all goods and services produced by all firms and organizations, foreign and domestic, operating within a country.
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Discount rate
Estimate of a resources future economic value compared to its present value.
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Natural capital
Includes resources and services produced by the earth's natural processes, which support all economies and all life.
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Natural capital
Includes resources and services produced by the earth's natural processes, which support all economies and all life
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Human capital, human resources
Includes people's physical and mental talents that provide labor, organizational and management skills, and innovation
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Manufactured capital, manufactured resources
Includes people's physical and mental talents that provide labor, organizational and management skills, and innovation
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Economic growth
Increased capacity to supply goods and services, requires increased production and consumption, requires more consumers
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Economic development
Improvement of living standards
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Neoclassical economists
View the earths natural capital as part of a human economic system
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Ecological economists
View human economic systems as subsystems of the biosphere, and believe that conventional economic growth will become unsustainable
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Discount rate
Estimate of a resources future economic value compared to its present value
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Market price
Does not include indirect, external, or hidden costs
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Full-cost pricing
Includes estimated costs of harmful environmental and health effects of production
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Perverse subsidies
Lead to environmental damage and should be phased out
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Gross domestic product (GDP)
Annual market value of all goods and services produced by all firms and organizations, foreign and domestic, operating within a country
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Per capita GDP
Annual gross domestic product (GDP) of a country divided by its total population at midyear
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Genuine progress indicator (GPI)
GDP plus the estimated value of beneficial transactions that meet basic needs, but in which no money changes hands, minus the estimated harmful environmental, health, and social costs of all transactions
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Green taxes
So that harmful products and services are at the true cost
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Greenwashing
Deceptive practice and spin of environmentally harmful products as green
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Environmental regulation
Control pollution and reduce environmental degradation
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Poverty
People cannot meet basic needs
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Developed countries
spend 0.7% of the national budget toward these goals
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