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Dedication
For Sylvie, for Lila, for Jonas, with everlasting love
The New Environmental Economics
Sustainability and Justice
Éloi Laurent
polity
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Figures
Graphs
1.1 Three ages of human development
5.1 Oil prices, 2008–2018
6.1 Renewable internal fresh-water resources per capita
7.1 European Union emissions of GHG in production and consumption
11.1 Globalization in the last 50 years
12.1 Percentage of population residing in urban areas by country, 1950–2050
Boxes
2.1 The population (on-going) problem
3.1 John Muir: Preservation and healing
3.2 The rules of the game of environmental cooperation
4.1 The top 20 of the “Toxic 100”
4.2 The ecological debt
4.3 The Cochabamba Declarations
4.4 Air (ine)quality
4.5 Environmental justice before the law
5.1 Kenneth Boulding
5.2 The monetary cost of air pollution