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Chapter Thirty- Three: Growth and Sustainabilit y in the Twenty-First Century

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Page 1: Chapter Thirty- Three: Growth and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter Thirty-Three:

Growth and Sustainability in the Twenty-First

Century

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Climate Change

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Figure 33.1: Global Temperature Trends, 1900-2100

Source: U.S. Global Change Research Program, www.globalchange.gov .

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Economic Growth and the Environment

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Source: Panayotou, T., "Empirical Tests and Policy Analysis of Environmental Degradation at Different Levels of Development,” 1993.

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Figure 33.2: Environmental Kuznets Curve for Sulfur Dioxide Emissions

Source: T. Panayotou, “Empirical Tests and Policy Analysis of Environmental Degradation at Different Levels of Development,” International Labour Office Working Paper, 1993.

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Brunei

United Arab Emirates

United States

India

China

Bahrain

Saudi Arabia

Kazakhstan

Gabon

Sweden

Switzerland

Norway

Figure 33.3: Carbon Dioxide Emissions vs GDP per Capita, 2009

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators Database 2013.

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Source: OECD, OECD/EEA Instruments Database 2007

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Table 33.1: Global Population Classification by Income and Environmental Impacts, 2013

Source: World Bank, Little Green Data Book 2013; World Development Indicators 2013.

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United States

Europe

Figure 33.5: A Consumption Possibilities Frontier

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Are Stabilization and Sustainability in Conflict?

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Steady State

Time

Resource-usingEconomic Activities

Figure 33.6: Growth Reaching a Steady-State

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Figure 33.7: A No-Growth Scenario for the Canadian Economy

Source: Adapted from Peter Victor, Managing Without Growth: Slower by Deisgn, not Disaster. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2008, p. 182.

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Appendix: Demographic Challenges

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Table 33.2: Stages of Demographic Transition

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(a) 1900 (b) 2000

(c) 2040, projected

Figure 33.8: Population by Age and Sex, United States, 1900, 2000, and 2040 (projected)

Source: Wan Wan He, Manisha Sengupta, Victoria A. Velkoff, and Kimberly A. DeBarros, U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, P23–209, “65+ in the United States: 2005”, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

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Figure 33.9: Old-Age Dependency Ratios, 1950-2050

Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision, Population Database. Figure based on mediumvariant projections.