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Blueprint for a Sustainable Economy. By D. W. PEARCE and E. B. BARBIER London: Earthscan, 2000, 273 pp. L12.95 (pbk) ISBN 1 85383 515 3
Just over a decade ago, David Pearce, Anil Markandya and Ed Barbier published Blueprint for a Green Economy (Pearce et al., 1989), a slim paperback volume setting out what was subsequently hailed as an agenda not only for a new type of economics but for a new relationship between the economy, government policy and the environment. The authors of that seminal volume have always been the first to note that much of the contents of what became known as Blueprint One (on account of the series of six further volumes it spawned) was already known within that 'new' discipline of environmental economics. But it was the dissemination and awareness-raising effect of the book which was its great impact; helping define, rather than simply influence, UK environmental policy over the past 10 years. Now, at the start of a century which seems destined to witness the greatest environmental upheavals in human history, Pearce and Barbier have returned to the basic...