Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 378 pages)
ISBN:
9781782542575
Series Statement:
Advances in ecological economics series
Content:
Frequent references are made to the 'Asian economic miracle' as a means of describing the wave of GDP growth experienced across the Asia-Pacific region over the past twenty years. Implicit in this description is the assumption that the Asia-Pacific region has progressed at the same rate that GDP has risen over the same period. But is this truly the case? Employing a Genuine Progress Indicator as an alternative measure of sustainable welfare, the contributors to this book aim to answer this question by presenting case studies of seven Asia-Pacific nations. The results reveal that all is not as positive as conventional indicators might suggest. The book shows that the three wealthy nations - Australia, New Zealand, and Japan - have long reached a level of GDP beyond which further growth is detrimental to their sustainable welfare while the four poorer nations - China, India, Thailand, and Vietnam - are fast approaching a similar situation, but at much lower per capita levels of sustainable welfare. In view of these results, it is argued that genuine progress in the Asia-Pacific region requires the wealthy nations to focus on qualitative improvement (development) rather than GDP growth. As for the poorer nations, it is argued that population stabilisation demands urgent attention while the GDP growth required over the next two to three decades must be as clean, efficient, and equitable as possible. Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific will appeal to a wide audience of academics and researchers in the areas of ecological, environmental and natural resource economics, development, green national accounting, and environmental management. It will also find a readership in policymakers, environmental managers and NGOs, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents: Preface / Herman Daly -- Part I: Introduction to the Asia-Pacific region and the genuine progress indicator -- 1. An Introduction to the Asia-Pacific region / Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke -- 2. Why is gross domestic product an inadequate indicator of sustainable welfare? / Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke -- 3. What is the genuine progress indicator and how is it typically calculated? / Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke -- 4. In defence of the genuine progress indicator / Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke -- Part II: Measuring the genuine progress of Asia-Pacific nations -- 5. Genuine progress in australia: Time to rethink the growth objective / Philip Lawn -- 6. Calculating the new zealand genuine progress indicator / Vicky Forgie, Garry McDonald, Yanjiao Zhang, Murray Patterson and Derrylea Hardy -- 7. Genuine progress in Japan and the need for an open economy GPI / Matsuyo Makino -- 8. Genuine progress in India: Some further growth needed in the immediate future but population stabilisation needed immediately / Philip Lawn -- 9. From GDP to the GPI: Quantifying thirty-five years of development in China / Zonggou Wen, Yan Yang and Philip Lawn -- 10. Genuine progress in Thailand: A systems-analysis approach / Matthew Clarke and Judith Shaw -- 11. Genuine progress in Vietnam: The impact of the doi moi reforms / Vu Xuan Nguyet Hong, Matthew Clarke and Philip Lawn -- Part III: Genuine progress across the Asia-Pacific region -- 12. Genuine progress across the Asia-Pacific region: Comparisons, trends, and policy implications / Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781847205018
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als ISBN 9781847205018
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sustainable welfare in the Asia-Pacific Cheltenham[u.a.] : Edward Elgar, 2008 ISBN 9781847205018
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1847205011
Language:
English
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