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This important book highlights the conflicts between economic growth and the conservation of nature in the context of sustainable development. It places particular emphasis on biological diversity and examines possible policies for resolving conflicts which arise from the contrasting goals of...
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Economy and Ecosystems in Change addresses ecological problems from an economic perspective, and provides policy suggestions for resource management and environmental sustainability based on integrated, multidisciplinary information, methods and applications. The book begins by introducing the...
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Economics of Ecological Resources presents new or recently published work on ecological economies, sustainability, poverty, resource degradation and decision-making under uncertainty. The book explores the allocation of resources in jointly determined ecological-economic systems. An introductory...
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Institutional Change for Sustainable Development presents a flexible, accessible, yet robust conceptual framework for comprehending institutional dimensions of sustainability, emphasising the complexity of institutional systems, and highlighting the interdependence between policy learning and...
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. Resources, the environment and economic growth : is natural capital substitutable? -- 4. Preserving natural capital in a world …
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This book discusses important recent developments in the theory, concepts and empirical applications of ecological economics and sustainable development. The editors have assembled a fascinating collection of papers from some of the leading scholars in the field of ecological economics
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This important book presents fresh thinking and new results on the measurement of sustainable development. Economic theory suggests that there should be a link between future wellbeing and current wealth. This book explores this linkage under a variety of headings: population growth,...
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economics in the modern world, welfare and ethical considerations in environmental economics, sustainability concerns, the …
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rest of the natural world. The book is divided into four parts; part one discusses the creation of an ecological economics …
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/ Joshua Farley -- 2. The world in over-shoot: a celebration of Herman Daly's contributions to ecological economics - the … 'full' world / Philip Lawn -- 9. Hicksian income, welfare, and the steady state / Salah El Serafy -- Part IV Changing the … beyond economic growth as the sole panacea for the world's ecological predicament. Grounded in physics, ecology, and the …
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