Front Cover -- Handbook of Environmental Economics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction to the Series -- Preface -- 1 Modeling coupled climate, ecosystems, and economic systems -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Coupled Ecological/Economic Modeling for Robustness -- 2.1 Robust Control...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Observations on social capital -- Notes on social capital and economic performance -- Social capital in the creation of human capital -- Defining social capital: an integrating view -- Formal and informal institutions -- Creating and harnessing social capital --...

We develop a consistent and comprehensive theoretical framework for assessing whether economic growth is compatible with sustaining well-being over time. The framework focuses on whether a comprehensive measure of wealth - one that accounts for natural capital and human capital as well as...