Getting Down to Earth: Practical Applications of Ecological EconomicsGetting Down to Earth brings together scientists, managers, and national and international policy makers to identify practical strategies for implementing sustainability based on ecological economic principles. The book, joining a shared vision of a sustainable and desirable world with adequate analysis and innovative implementation, promises to be the "full package" necessary to achieve sustainability. Ecological economics, a transdisciplinary approach focusing on the problems facing humanity and the life-supporting ecosystems on which we depend, is helping to foster the dialogue necessary to pull the package together and move toward newly articulated goals. |
Contents
SocioEcological Principles for a Sustainable Society | 17 |
Value Added Physical Transformation | 49 |
Complexity Problem Solving and Sustainable Societies | 61 |
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