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Green Accounting: Balancing Environment and Economy

In: Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future Insights from 45 global thought leaders

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The High-Level Meeting on Happiness and Well-Being at the United Nations on 2 April 2012, called for “realizing the world we all want.” But what is it we all want? Is it maximum well-being or happiness, or is it just meeting our needs, as proclaimed by the popular definition of sustainable development?1 Happiness, needs, and development goals are holistic and, to a great extent, nonmaterial. They are also hard to define, measure, and implement…

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  • Peter Bartelmus, 2014. "Green Accounting: Balancing Environment and Economy," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Robert Costanza & Ida Kubiszewski (ed.), Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future Insights from 45 global thought leaders, chapter 24, pages 175-184, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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