Citation:
Sustainable Investment and Resource Use: Equity, Environmental Integrity, and Economic Efficiency, Volume 9 in Man and the Biosphere Series, M. D. Young, (Paris: UNESCO, 1992) 171pp.
Sustainable Investment and Resource Use: Equity, Environmental Integrity, and Economic Efficiency is an examination of three overall topics. The author considers investing for a future, concepts, conditions and principles affecting that investment, and opportunities for change.
Sustainable Investment and Resource Use: Equity, Environmental Integrity, and Economic Efficiency will be of interest to those who seek market approaches for solving the problems of resource use. The text is divided into three sections. The first of these addresses investing for a future. The author considers differing views, government policy, natural resources, and sustainable development.
Section two addresses concepts, conditions and principles which must attend any consideration of natural resource use. The author first considers ecological and social concepts andunderlying assumptions. Necessary conditions and policy principles for sustainable resource use and investment are next considered.
Section three examines opportunities for change. This section begins with consideration of the design of resource-right systems and allocating opportunities for sustainable investment and resource use. Next building a sustainable economy through macro-economic policy opportunities are examined. Finally, the author discusses micro-economic policy opportunities for putting the environment into the market.
Sustainable Investment and Resource Use: Equity, Environmental Integrity, and Economic Efficiency will be useful to those who seek only market approaches to the present difficulties surrounding natural resource allocation and use.