Part I Critical review of the orthodox economy -- 1 paradigms -- 2 the commodification of nature and its consequences -- 3 Foundations and instruments of environmental economics -- 4 Free market and sustainability -- 5 Sustainable development in the Brundtland report and its distortion -- Part...

The sustainability paradox and the conflicts on use of natural resources / E. Gunilla Almered Olsson and Pernille Gooch -- Natural conflicts in the capitalocene / Pernille Gooch, Anders Burman and E. Gunilla Almered Olsson -- Water, conflicts and sustainable development / Sofie Hellberg --...

Environmental problems and their local, national, and global solutions have taken on ever-increasing importance in today's world. Economic analysis of environmental problems is essential, but economic perspectives must be complemented with an understanding of the principles of ecological...