Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment

By A. Batabyal, Partha Dasgupta. 2002

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Navigating the Back Loop: Fostering Social Innovation and Transformation in Ecosystem Management (2010, background): “…government-mediated factors that can strongly influence innovation in ecosystem management are: (1) the creation of markets for ecosystem services (Dasgupta 2001, Daily and Ellison 2002), (2) the provision of capital, education, and infrastructure (Homer-Dixon 1995), and political stability…”
On Welfare Frameworks and Catastrophic Climate Risks (2013, neutral): “11 Dasgupta [12] is critical of the use of models with many possible pure rates of time preference such as those in Weitzman [67] and Li and Löfgren [45].”
Beyond GDP? Welfare Across Countries and Time (2016, background): “See, for example, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (1994), Dasgupta (2001) and Arrow et al. (2004).”
Renewable Energy in the Context of Sustainable Development (2011, background): “Aggregate indicators of weak sustainability include green net national product, genuine savings (Hamilton, 1994; Hamilton and Clemens, 1999; Dasgupta, 2001), the index of sustainable economic welfare (ISEW) and the genuine progress indicator (GPI) (e.”
The effect of natural disasters on economic activity in US counties: A century of data (2020, background): “Second, our measure of disaster severity is based on a 22 In the climate change literature, there is a broad consensus that the wealthy can access a wide range of adaptation strategies – of which migration may be one – to protect themselves from shocks (Dasgupta 2001, Barreca, et. al.”
Human well-being: Concepts and measures (2006, background): “Despite these weaknesses. though, income "continues to be regarded as the 'quintessential' well-being indicator" (Dasgupta, 2001: 53).”
Corruption, Institutions, and Economic Development (2009, background): “It is widely recognized that GDP per capita is not a measure of this.22 In recent years, progress has been made in constructing empirical measures of sustainability and in developing the underlying theory (Dasgupta, 2001, chapter 9; Hamilton and Clemens, 1999).”
Weak and strong sustainability in the SEEA: concepts and measurement (2007, background): “Dasgupta (2001) and Arrow et al. (2003) treat population as a capital asset, rathe than simply dividing through by population.”
Valuing Objects and Evaluating Policies in Imperfect Economies (2001, background): “45 For a justi®cation, see Dasgupta (2001).”
Doing the right thing: Measuring wellbeing for public policy (2011, background): “As pointed out by the economist Partha Dasgupta (2001), ‚GNP per capita continues to be regarded as the quintessential indicator of a country's living standard‛ (p. 53).”
Challenges and Opportunities for Resource Rich Economies (2006, neutral): “…wealth per capita is the correct measure of social welfare if the population growth rate is constant, per capita consumption is independent of population size and production has constant returns to scale and current saving is the present value of future changes in consumption (Dasgupta, 2001).”
Green growth and climate change: conceptual and empirical considerations (2016, neutral): “The debate on growth-versus-environment is old and continues to the present day (Arrow et al., 1995; Beckerman, 1974; Daly, 1996; Dasgupta, 2001; Jackson, 2009; Meadows, Meadows, Randers, & Behrens III, 1972; Mishan, 1967; Victor, 2008).”
The Welfare Economic Theory of Green National Accounts (2008, methodology): “For illustrations of those possibilities using crude data from contemporary national accounts, see Dasgupta (2001b), Dasgupta (2007) and Arrow et al. (2007), Arrow et al. (2008).”