"This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the green economy, using a strongly interdisciplinary approach based on natural resource management rather than treating it as a sub-set of economics. Examples of real-world case studies are used to illustrate how sustainable development...

1. Introduction -- 2. Sustainability science -- 3. Climate change and carbon management -- 4. Biodiversity and ecosystem services -- 5. Green technology and renewable energy -- 6. Environmental law and social justice / with Kate Forrester, Chris Shiel and Tilak Ginige -- 7. The green economy in...

The ecological literature suggests that biodiversity reduces the variance of ecosystem services. Thus, conservative biodiversity management has an insurance value to risk-averse users of ecosystem services. We analyze a conceptual ecological-economic model in which such management measures...