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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... mind and bodies is something that stems from Descartes's dualism. For Spinoza causation requires force. Bodies have forces to move other bodies or to stop them from moving; and human minds also have force with the help of whi minds ...
... mind that is divided between two alternatives with respect to its specific object” is the definition of doubt. The basis for definition is a mind thinking: “Are there former and later lives or are there not?” A mind that has doubt means ...
... mind directly as an object among other objects ; ( ii ) we cannot infer mind from observation of bodies ; ( iii ) supposing we can become aware of our own mind , yet our awareness of our own mind will not help us to make in- ferences ...
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costbenefit analysis of past successes | 7 |
Reorienting macroeconomic theory towards | 36 |
dismantling | 53 |
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