GEF

5 Contents UNIT 6 Social Changes of Sustainable Development 1 24 6.1 What Is Sustainable Development? 126 6.2 Poverty, Equality, Environment, and Justice 129 6.3 Population Growth and Energy Use 132 6.4 Health, Education, and Sustainability 135 6.5 Sustainability, Society, and Social Change 138 UNIT 7 The Economics of Sustainability 1 44 7.1 Dominant Global Economic Trends: Economic Growth 146 7.2 Market Failures and Externalities 147 7.3 Public Goods and the Free Rider Problem 150 7.4 Ecological Economics 151 7.5 Placing a Value on Nature 153 7.6 True Cost Accounting 154 7.7 Creating Sustainable Economic Systems 157 UNIT 8 Government and Sustainability 1 64 8.1 The Role of Government in Sustainability 166 8.2 Policy Successes and Challenges 170 8.3 Cap and Trade and Pollution Taxes 173 8.4 Do Businesses Benefit from Regulation? 175 8.5 Challenges of Government Action 176 8.6 Government Intervention, Democracy, and Sustainability 177