Is Economic Growth Sustainable?

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. The Sustainability of Economic Growth

   • Geoffrey Heal

   Pages 1-9

3. What Are the Health Effects of Air Pollution in China?

   • Maureen Cropper

   Pages 10-46

4. Why Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture Could be Economically Substantial

   • Michael J. Roberts, Wolfram Schlenker

   Pages 47-75

5. Wealth, Saving and Sustainability

   • Kirk Hamilton

   Pages 76-91

6. China, the US, and Sustainability: Perspectives Based on Comprehensive Wealth

   • Kenneth J. Arrow, Partha Dasgupta, Lawrence H. Goulder, Kevin Mumford, Kirsten Oleson

   Pages 92-144

7. Counting Nonmarket, Ecological Public Goods: The Elements of a Welfare-Significant Ecological Quantity Index

   • James Boyd

   Pages 145-167

8. The Challenge of Crafting Rules to Change Open-Access Resources into Managed Resources

   • Elinor Ostrom

   Pages 168-205

9. How Does Trade Affect the Environment?

   • Brian R. Copeland

   Pages 206-247

10. Corporate Environmentalism: Doing Well by Being Green

    • Geoffrey Heal

    Pages 248-262

11. Back Matter

    Pages 263-280

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How can we determine if current growth patterns are sustainable, and what changes to we need to make to make them more so? This volume addresses these issues in a rigorous yet accessible fashion, presenting the current research of some of the world's leading scholars.

• agriculture
• air pollution
• China
• climate change
• economic growth
• environment
• growth
• public goods
• sustainability
• welfare

• Columbia Business School, USA

  Geoffrey Heal

GEOFFREY HEAL combines a lifelong interest in nature with a fascination with how societies work. He is the Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility at Columbia Business School. His research ranges from technical aspects of securities markets to understanding the economic consequences of species extinction, with an emphasis on understanding how societies interact with their natural resource bases. A Past President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Heal is the author of many scientific articles and books, including Valuing the Future: Economic Theory and Sustainability, Nature and the Market Place, and When Principles Pay: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line.

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