TY  - RPRT
U1  - Arbeitspapier
A1  - Bartelmus, Peter
T1  - Dematerialization and capital maintenance : two sides of the sustainability coin
T2  - Wuppertal papers
N2  - The reductionist trend of equalizing sustainable development with CO2 control needs to be reversed - notwithstanding the significance of climate change. Conventional, "compartmentalized" data systems impede an integrated vision and treatment of the paradigm. New accounts and balances focus on the interaction between environment and economy. "Greened" national accounts measure economic sustainability in terms of (produced and natural) capital maintenance; balances of material flows assess ecological sustainability as the dematerialization of production and consumption. Both concepts aim to preserve environmental assets. They differ however with regard to the scope, strength and evaluation of sustainability. First results for Germany indicate weak sustainability of the economy, owing to an increasing capital base. Strong sustainability is not in sight, though, since material throughput has not been reduced sufficiently. An "Alliance for Sustainable Development" is proposed to implement and sustain the paradigm.
Y1  - 2002
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-13592
UN  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-13592
VL  - 120
SP  - 31
S1  - 31
PB  - Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie
CY  - Wuppertal
PB  - Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie
CY  - Wuppertal
ER  -