Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go?

R Costanza, R De Groot, L Braat, I Kubiszewski… - Ecosystem …, 2017 - Elsevier
It has been 20 years since two seminal publications about ecosystem services came out: an
edited book by Gretchen Daily and an article in Nature by a group of ecologists and …

Modelling and measuring sustainable wellbeing in connection with the UN Sustainable Development Goals

R Costanza, L Daly, L Fioramonti, E Giovannini… - Ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer a detailed dashboard of
goals, targets and indicators. In this paper we investigate alternative methods to relate the …

[BOOK][B] Theories and Practices of Development

K Willis - 2011 - books.google.com
Global economic crisis and the implications of global environmental change have led
academics and policy-makers to consider how 'development'in all parts of the world should …

Governing the world at a distance: the practice of global benchmarking

A Broome, J Quirk - Review of international studies, 2015 - cambridge.org
Benchmarking practices have rapidly diffused throughout the globe in recent years. This can
be traced to their popularity amongst non-state actors, such as civil society organisations …

[BOOK][B] Africa rising?: BRICS-Diversifying dependency

I Taylor - 2014 - books.google.com
Africa is said to be rising, turning a definitive page in its history, heralding new and exciting
possibilities for the continent. This discourse maintains that with upsurge in economic growth …

[HTML][HTML] Enhance environmental policy coherence to meet the Sustainable Development Goals

L Coscieme, LF Mortensen, I Donohue - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Ensuring policy coherence across environmental, social and economic goals is a key
challenge to sustainable development. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals …

The sustainable development goals and Laudato si': Varieties of post-development?

W Sachs - The Development Dictionary@ 25, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Comparing the Agenda 2030 of the United Nations and the Laudato si'by the Pope, both
authored in 2015, one point stands out: the Development enthusiasm of the twentieth …

Steering capital: The growing private authority of index providers in the age of passive asset management

J Petry, J Fichtner, E Heemskerk - Review of international political …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Since the global financial crisis, there is a massive shift of assets towards index funds.
Rather than picking stocks, index funds replicate stock indices such as the S&P 500. But …

Globalization and the growing defects of international economic statistics

L Linsi, DK Mügge - Review of international political economy, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Official international economic statistics are generally considered accurate and meaningful
gauges of cross-border flows of trade and capital. Most data users also assume that the …

From gross domestic product to wellbeing: How alternative indicators can help connect the new economy with the Sustainable Development Goals

L Fioramonti, L Coscieme… - The Anthropocene …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
In a 2014 issue of Nature, members of our research group called for abandoning the gross
domestic product as the key indicator in economic policymaking. In this new article, we …