Frontiers in Ecological Economic Theory and ApplicationJon David Erickson, John M. Gowdy Edward Elgar, 2007 - 365 síður Research on the cutting edge of economics, ecology, and ethics is presented in this timely study. Building from a theoretical critique of the tradition of cost-benefit analysis, the contributors lay the foundation for a macroeconomics of environmental sustainability and distributive justice. Attention is then turned to three of the most critical areas of social and environmental applied research - biodiversity, climate change, and energy. The contributors redefine progress away from growth and toward development. To this end, the first section of the book tackles the dominant framework used in the US today to evaluate tradeoffs between economic growth and its inherent externalities. Succeeding chapters cover a wide variety of studies related to biodiversity health and energy. Each section is anchored with overviews by top scholars in these areas - including Herman Daly, Carl McDaniel, Stephen Schneider, and Nathan Hagens - and followed by detailed analyses reflecting the transdisciplinary approach of ecological economics. Students and scholars of ecological, environmental, and natural resource economics, sustainability sciences, and environmental studies will find this book of great interest. Non-profit and government agencies in search of methods and cases that merge the study of ecology and economics will also find the analyses of great practical value. |
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... further discussion . A balanced approach to the development of a new macroeconomics should neither reject the insights of mainstream theorists , nor rule out more radical views . It is essential , however , that the theorists and ...
... Further , donors may wish to distribute their aid to those nations that show the most promise to achieve goals that are consistent with their aspirations . At a minimum , appreciating a nation's political , economic and social policies ...
... further restrictions are made . If the constant output case is further restricted to constant cost the SES emerges . But other restrictions are also possible . Mundlak also looks at ' short - run elasticities ' where input quantities ...
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costbenefit analysis of past successes | 7 |
Reorienting macroeconomic theory towards | 36 |
dismantling | 53 |
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