02505cam a22003854a 4500 6105 BD-DhEWU 20171219101200.0 010709r20012007nyua g b 001 0 eng d 2001036597 0199267197 9780199267194 (OCoLC)55535349 DLC DLC DLC BD-DhEWU eng eng HD75.6 .D367 2001 306.22 DAH 2001 Dasgupta, Partha. 16819 Human well-being and the natural environment / Partha Dasgupta. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. xxiv, 351 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. TOC Summary and Guide -- Introduction: Means and ends -- Part I: Valuing and evaluating. Prologue ; The notion of well-being ; Ordering social states ; Why measure well-being? ; Constituents and determinants of well-being -- Part II: Measuring current well-being. Prologue ; Theory ; Current quality of life in poor countries -- Part III: Measuring well-being over time. Prologue ; Intergenerational well-being ; Intergenerational conflicts ; Economic institutions and the natural environment ; Valuing goods ; Wealth and well-being -- Part IV: Evaluating policies in imperfect economies. Prologue ; Policy reforms ; Discounting future consumption ; Institutional responses to policy change -- Part V: Valuing potential lives. Prologue ; Some views ; Classical utilitarianism and the genesis problem ; Numbers and well-being under classical utilitarianism ; Actual vs. potential lives ; Generation-relative utilitarianism -- Appendix. Economists' convexities ; Convex utopias ; Valuation and evaluation in imperfect economies. Summary: This work concerns measurement of the quality of life, and focuses on the ways in which this is now known to be tied to the natural environment. Sociology Saifun Momota Sustainable development. 16820 Natural resources Management. 16821 Human ecology. 16822 WorldCat details https://www.worldcat.org/title/human-well-being-and-the-natural-environment/oclc/55535349&referer=brief_results E-Book Fulltext http://lib.ewubd.edu/ebook/6105 ddc TEXT 6105 6105 6105 | 1 | 1 | 1 6105 | 1 | 1 | 1 6105 | 1 | 1 | 1 6105 | 1 | 1 | 1 0 0 ddc 0 1 NFIC EWU EWU MC 2009-10-18 Karim International 2530.00 0 306.22 DAH 2001 22501 C-1 TEXT 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC EWU EWU EBOOK 2017-12-19 0 306.22 DAH 2001 2017-12-19 2017-12-19 EBOOK