Analysis of genuine saving and potential green net national income: Portugal, 1990–2005

Mota, Rui; Domingos, Tiago; Martins, Víctor Emanuel Pessoa

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.04.026

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“…The key idea is that different forms of capital may be substituted to sustain development. Theoretical papers such as Hamilton and Clemens (1999), Arrow et al (2004) and Mota et al (2010) demonstrate that, under certain conditions, a positive GS at time t indicates that for future periods t +1, t + 2, well-being, as represented by utility per capita, will be non-declining. An even stronger result has been obtained by Hamilton and Withagen (2007), who illustrate that a positive rate of GS will lead to increasing per capita consumption over time (for a constant population).…”

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Sustainability in the making? A historical estimate of Swedish sustainable and unsustainable development 1850–2000

Lindmark

Acar

2013

Ecological Economics

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Sustainability in the making? A historical estimate of Swedish sustainable and unsustainable development 1850–2000

Lindmark

Acar

2013

Ecological Economics

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“…An alternative hypothesis for further investigation is that some countries reduced their catches to rebuild previously overfished stocks as a way of increasing their natural capital through genuine savings (see e.g. [9] [21] and [22]). The OECD has recently investigated and compared cases of rebuilding fisheries in an attempt to achieve an overview of some success stories [23] and to facilitate change in the member countries [24] and [25].…”

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Institutional quality and catch performance of fishing nations

Flaaten

2013

Marine Policy

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The relationship between annual growth in the catches of fishing nations and the quality of the institutions of those nations is analyzed. Catch volumes are used as a proxy for development, since economic performance indicators based on a common set of definitions do not exist. 49 major fishing nations were selected for this study, including 22 OECD countries and several developing countries. Three general good governance indices, for government-efficiency (World Bank), corruption (Transparency International) and competitiveness (World Economic Forum) and one fishery specific FAO Code of Conduct compliance index were used. The correlation between fisheries' performance and the indices proved to be spurious, but OECD members achieved a statistically significant negative growth in catches between 1987 and 2007. The countries are divided into five groups, including 'Winners' and 'Losers', with reference to catch growth rates over two decades. Most of the OECD countries fell into the category 'Losers', whereas "Winners" includes many developing countries with lower quality institutions. Some countries had experienced an amazing growth in catches, while others had experienced a decline. The future prospects for both categories are discussed.

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“…Studies have applied various indicators for the purpose of assessing sustainability (for example, Singh and others, 2009;Lawn and Clarke, 2010). Some of the most widely used indicators on the income-environment nexus are genuine savings, otherwise known as adjusted net savings (Hamilton and Clemens, 1999;Nourry, 2008;Mota, Domingos and Martins, 2010;Asici, 2013;Kubiszewski and others, 2013;Greasley and others, 2014); green national net product (Nourry, 2008;Mota, Domingos and Martins, 2010); the system of environmental-economic accounting (Dietz and Neumayer, 2007); the index of sustainable and economic welfare (Nourry, 2008); the ecological footprint (Parker, 1998;Wackernagel and others, 2004a;Lammers and others, 2008;Nourry, 2008;Hubacek and others, 2009;Begum and others, 2009;Galli and others, 2012;Wang, Chou and Lee, 2012); the environmental sustainability index (Pillarisetti and van den Bergh, 2007;Hara and others, 2009); the environmental performance index (Yale Centre for Environment Law and Policy, 2010); the environmental vulnerability index (Kaly, Pratt and Mitchell, 2004;Barnett, Lambert and Fry, 2008), etc.…”

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Strong or weak sustainability: A case study of emerging Asia

Barua¹,

Khataniar²

2016

Asia-Pacific Development Journal

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Sustainability can be weak or strong, depending on the nature of capital accumulation. Weak sustainability is characterized by a non-declining combined stock of capital and assumes that man-made capital can be replaced with natural capital. Strong sustainability, on the other hand, implies that natural capital cannot be replaced by any other capital. Based on this understanding, the present study analysed the growth patterns of 10 emerging Asian economies using time-series data over a 20-year period. For this purpose, the study used genuine savings as an indicator of weak sustainability and ecological footprint as an indicator of strong sustainability. The study found that the selected Asain economies, particularly the middle-income countries, are following a path of weak sustainability. While the high-income countries are gradually making an attempt, through various policy interventions, to move from a path of weak to strong sustainability, despite genuine savings having stabilized their ecological footprint per capita continues to show an increasing trend.

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Analysis of genuine saving and potential green net national income: Portugal, 1990–2005

Cited by 30 publications

References 19 publications

Sustainability in the making? A historical estimate of Swedish sustainable and unsustainable development 1850–2000

Sustainability in the making? A historical estimate of Swedish sustainable and unsustainable development 1850–2000

Institutional quality and catch performance of fishing nations

Strong or weak sustainability: A case study of emerging Asia

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