Economist Herman E Daly argues that our future depends on a new economic model, one that needs to be defined by the dynamic balance – the steady state – of the natural world upon which it depends.
… used to produce goods and services) or GDP (gross domestic product – the total volume … Trying to define sustainability in terms of GDP is problematic because GDP conflates qualitative development (an …
As water shortages, and water prices, rocket farmers are leaving fields fallow to sell the irrigation water to cities where it is illegal for restaurants to give customers water unless they ask for it.
… ask for it. According to some measures of GDP California is the seventh largest economy …
Protecting rainforests is now almost as lucrative as cutting them down. Mark Anslow reports on a commodities-centred approach to stopping deforestation
… the size of its new carbon neighbours; its GDP is one-seventh that of China and one-13th …
It’s the battle of the century. In one corner, the Economy – big, bloated, greedy and growing. In the other, the planet Earth – fragile, finite and fighting back.
… tolerate that. We always need more – that’s GDP and ‘growth’. We need always to produce … per hour of work. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would go back to what it was intended to …
Just as Sir Nicholas Stern’s report in October 2006 put a price on the effects of climate change, a new report by the UN has begun to cost out the threat of failing to conserve the world’s biodiversity – a cool £40 billion annually, and rising.
… yardstick that is more effective than GDP for assessing the performance of an …
‘This is the Indian dream!’ shouts Mohit, clutching a tattered plastic bag as he joins the impatient throng gathering at Hall A of the Auto Expo in New Delhi. Around us more than 100,000 Indians are aggressively jostling for space and a precious glimpse of the £1,200 Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car. It is a vehicle that, put simply, costs less than the optional DVD player on the new Lexus LX470 SUV.
… makes up a staggering 67 per cent of GDP in India, much higher than China (42 per …