Economic Indicators of Sustainable Development (Nick Hanley)

Nick Hanley from the University of Stirling presents a seminar on the general topic of operationally measuring sustainable development. . The seminar introduces the main ways economists think about the ideas of "sustainability", Nick explains how economists ideas of substitutability between various measures of capital (physical, resource endowments broadly conceived, human capital, and social capital) used to generate long run consumption lead to conflict with ecological notions of capital where substitutability isn't a key idea, but where boundary and threshold notions...and their impact on consumption possibilities...does make a big difference. The empirical part of the seminar shows that trying to operationalize meaningful measures of sustainability is (1) difficult and (2) leads to differences from theoretical predictions. Enjoy. ps seee some discussion and commentary at http://uctv.canterbury.ac.nz/post/1/316

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Education

Tags:

• economics
• development
• sustainability
• UCseminars
• Hanley

[MrJFLYER]

this is a great video

[fraserdyson]

poudlydismal, thx for the video, the sound is horrible though, any solutions on your end.?

[syujengchyang]

I think it was helpful to Rajabhat University in Udon Thani Thailand.

[mazulazu]

seria posible obtener una traduccion en español

gracias