Sustainability and environmental issues, including the threat of global warming, are at the core of the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals. The agreement reached at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris is encouraging. Yet at the same time, political commitment...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Key Findings -- Why Should We Measure Wealth? -- What Is New in This Version of The Changing Wealth of Nations? -- Global and Regional Trends from 1995 to 2014 -- Natural Capital and Development --...