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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... high integrity conditions to examine changes in integrity over time . We also used analysis of variance to determine whether increased development under each of the five alter- natives represented in Scenario 3 resulted in statistical ...
... integrity condition , while high integrity would be rep- resented by approximately 1550 km2 . Under the resource management alter- native , low integrity area would grow from 3950 km2 to 5400 km2 , while high integrity lands would ...
... integrity decreases from 16,000 to 15,275 km2 , and high integrity decreases from 1550 to 825 km2 . Though most high integrity atlas blocks are located in areas of resource , wilderness and wild forest land , there are a small number ...
Efni
costbenefit analysis of past successes | 7 |
Reorienting macroeconomic theory towards | 36 |
dismantling | 53 |
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