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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... impacts of global climate change . For Nordhaus the impact is of minor importance compared to other changes and he dismisses long - term impli- cations as follows : Simply put , humans live , move , and die faster than climatic impacts ...
... impacts of climate change remain highly speculative . Outside of agriculture and sea - level rise the number of scholarly studies of the economic impacts of climate change remains small ' ( p . 98 ) . Some of the shortcomings of the 1-2 ...
... impacts may well generate large costs , including snowpack loss impacts on hydroelectric production , recre- ation , flooding , and municipal and commercial water supplies ; loss of recre- ational beaches and damage to coastal ...
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costbenefit analysis of past successes | 7 |
Reorienting macroeconomic theory towards | 36 |
dismantling | 53 |
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