ABSTRACT
A good deal has been said already about the role of the economy in sustainable development as it relates to higher education. This has been inevitable given the unbreakable linkages between the environment, societies and their economies. In particular, we have seen that economists have tended to frame debate about environmental sustainability in terms of the replacement over time of natural with human-made capital. In Chapter 1 we introduced the idea of investment as a metaSKRUIRUKLJKHUHGXFDWLRQDQGLQ&KDSWHUZHEULHÀ\GLVFXVVHGWKHQRWLRQRI natural capital. Now we explore some of the implications and opportunities offered by these ways of thinking.
