Contents: 1. The roads less traveled / Matthias Ruth, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada -- 2. Environmental economics is dead! Long live environmental economics! / Mark Sagoff, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA -- 3. Conceptual and political foundations for examining the...

Investment in natural capital is increasingly necessary and urgent considering the increasing loss of global bio- diversity and the associated social and economic losses. Ecosystem services are tools for quantifying the stock of natural capital and there is great concern about their assessment...

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is an environmental management tool, whose function is to predict and manage possible impacts arising from a given project. With the emergence of new European legislation, there is a need to implement new procedures that make environmental impact assessment...