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Chapter 23: Economics, Environment, and Sustainability
Chapter 23: Economics, Environment, and Sustainability
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Perverse subsidies
Lead to environmental damage and should be phased out.
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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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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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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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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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Developed countries
spend 0.7% of the national budget toward these goals
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Economic succession
New and more innovative businesses
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Centrally Planned Economy
the government determines production and distribution
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Free Market Economy
private individuals and companies determine production and distribution
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Neoclassical Economists
view the earth's natural capital as a subset of a human economic system