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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... Whole , not as a Part of some larger Whole . For them , nature is not a containing envelope , but just a sector of the macroeconomy - mines , wells , croplands , pastures , and fisheries . When the Whole grows , in this view , it ...
... whole is approaching global ecological limits and thresholds , some scientists fear Table 4.2 Distribution of world income in 1993 Population Share of world Per capita income Total Share of income world pop . ( US $ ) ( bil . US ...
... whole , in the order of tens of bil- lions of dollars . At the high end , what do these numbers tell us ? The costs of extinction measured in lost utility will be quite large if Americans as a whole consider the wild fish as ' belonging ...
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costbenefit analysis of past successes | 7 |
Reorienting macroeconomic theory towards | 36 |
dismantling | 53 |
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