Ecological Economics : the Science and Management of Sustainability
Ecological economics is a new transdisciplinary approach to understanding and managing the ecology and economics of our world for sustainability on local, regional, and global scales. The previous isolation of these two fields has led to economic and environmental policies that have been mutually destructive rather than reinforcing in the long term. This book brings together these two disciplines in chapters covering the basic worldview of ecological economics; accounting, modeling, and analysis of ecological economicl systems; and necessary institutional changes and case studies
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9780231513241, 9780231075633, 0231513240, 0231075634
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Intro; Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1. Goals, Agenda, and Policy Recommendations for Ecological Economics; Part I. Developing an Ecological Economic World View; 2. What Do We Want to Sustain? Environmentalism and Human Evaluations; 3. Elements of Environmental Macroeconomics; 4. Paramount Positions in Ecological Economics; 5. Sustainability and the Problem of Valuation; 6. Driving Forces, Increasing Returns and Ecological Sustainability; 7. Sustainability and Discounting the Future; 8. Ecological Health and Sustainable Resource Management. 9. Ecological Perception, Environmental Policy and Distributional Conflicts: Some Lessons from History10. A New Scientific Methodology for Global Environmental Issues; 11, Reserved Rationality and the Precautionary Principle: Technological Change, Time and Uncertainty in Environmental Decision Making; Part II. Accounting, Modeling and Analysis; 12. The Environment as Capital; 13. Alternative Environmental and Resource Accounting Approaches; 14. Correcting National Income for Environmental Losses: A Practical Solution for a Theoretical Dilemma. 15. National Accounting, Time and the Environment: A Neo-Austrian Approach16. Accounting in Ecological Systems; 17. Contributory Values of Ecoystem Resources; 18. Ecological-Economic Analysis for Regional Sustainable Development; 19. Natural Resource Scarcity and Economic Growth Revisted: Economic and Biophysical Perspectives; Part III. Institutional Changes and Case Studies; 20. Economic Biases Against Sustainable Development; 21. Assuring Sustainability of Ecological Economic Systems; 22. Local and Global Incentives for Sustainability: Failures in Economic Systems. 23. Intergenerational Transfers and Ecological Sustainability24. Economic Strategies for Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change on Future Generations; 25. The Role for Economic Incentives in International Allocation of Abatement Effort; 26. Rethinking Ecological and Economic Education: A Gestalt Shift; 27. Ecological Economics and Mulidisciplinary Education; 28. Ecological Engineering: Approaches to Sustainability and Biodiversity in the U.S. and China; 29. On the Significance of Open Boundaries for an Ecologically Sustainable Development of Human Socities. 30. Integrated Agro-Industrial Ecosystems: An Assessment of the Sustainability of a Cogenerative Approach to Food, Energy and Chemicals Production by Photosenthesis31. Government Policy and Ecological Concerns: Some Lessons from the Brazilian Experience; 32. Tropical Moist Forest Management: The Urgency of Transition to Sustainability; Index