Though scientists and environmentalists have long expressed concern over the rapid deterioration of the global environment, economists have largely failed to recognize the issues relevance to their field. Salah El Serafy argues for an increased focus on the economic aspects of environmental...

1. An introduction to the theory of social accounting / Thomas Aronsson and Karl-Gustaf Löfgren -- 2. The money metrics problem in dynamic welfare analysis / Karl-Gustaf Löfgren -- 3. Welfare measurement, hyperbolic discounting and paternalism / Kenneth Backlund and Tomas Sjögren -- 4....

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

"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...