Welfare, Inequality, and Resource Depletion : A Reassessment of Brazilian Economic Growth (Hardcover)

Contents: Sustainable development: an introduction; The political economy of growth and deforestation in Brazil; Measuring sustainable development: definitional issues and competing perspectives; Green income accounting: the commodity value of natural resources; Green income accounting: the conservation value of natural resources; Sustainable development reassessment: application of the distribution weights framework; Conclusion: requiem for GDP?; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.