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Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment

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This book is easy to understand. The language is very simple. This book contains the work of Partha Dasgupta and -mainly- Karl Goran Maler during years about several issues, as "genuine investment", "why the NNP is not a good measure to evaluate sustainability?", etc. It is a very good book to understand these issues (and others).

Dasgupta reviews and establishes the intellectual foundations for evaluating changes in the environment and the impact on human well-being. He has written extensively on this topic and this book synthesizes that research. He is particularly concerned with the natural resources available to a population. His argument is that as natural resources are depleted human welfare declines even if the day-to-day living of people has not changed. He provides the mathematical and philosophical basis of how to account for such changes. (The math is at a basic level with a smattering of calculus.)

Economists, policy-makers, political theorists, and philosophers are the intended audience, though it is so well written that layman could profitably read the work skipping the math.
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