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An Introduction to Ecological Economics

by: Costanza, Robert; Cumberland, John; Daly, Herman; Goodland, Robert; Norgaard, Richard; Costanza, Robert

An Introduction to Ecological Economics

by: Costanza, Robert; Cumberland, John; Daly, Herman; Goodland, Robert; Norgaard, Richard; Costanza, Robert

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1884015727
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 07/01/1997
Publisher: CRC Pr I Llc
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Summary

This is an official publication of the International Society for Ecological Economics. It is designed to be the first major text merging both ecology and economy. This book provides a complete and comprehensive treatment of this newly emerging field.

Preface

(1)

Acknowledgments

xii

1. Humanity's Current Dilemma

(18)

1.1 The Global Ecosystem and the Economic Subsystem

(1)

1.2 From Localized Limits to Global Limits

(7)

First Evidence of Limits: Human Biomass Appropriation

(1)

Second Evidence of Limits: Climate Change

(2)

Third Evidence of Limits: Ozone Shield Rupture

(1)

Fourth Evidence of Limits: Land Degradation

(1)

Fifth Evidence of Limits: Biodiversity Loss

(1)

1.3 Population and Poverty

(1)

1.4 Beyond Brundtland

(1)

1.5 Toward Sustainability

(1)

1.6 The Fragmentation of Economics and the Natural Sciences

(2)

2. The Historical Development of Economics and Ecology

(58)

2.1 The Early Codevelopment of Economics and Natural Science

(23)

Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand

(2)

Thomas Malthus and Population Growth

(2)

David Ricardo and the Geographic Pattern of Economic Activity

(1)

Sadi Carnot, Rudolf Clausius, and Thermodynamics

(1)

Charles Darwin and the Evolutionary Paradigm

(3)

John Stuart Mill and the Steady-State

(1)

Karl Marx and the Ownership of Resources

(3)

W. Stanley Jevons and the Scarcity of Stock Resources

(1)

Ernst Haeckel and the Beginnings of Ecology

(2)

Alfred J. Lotka and Systems Thinking

(1)

A. C. Pigou and Market Failure

(3)

Harold Hotelling and the Efficient Use of Resources over Time

(4)

2.2 Economics and Ecology Specialize and Separate

(2)

2.3 The Reintegration of Ecology and Economics

(29)

General System Theory

(2)

Open-Access Resource Management and Commons Institutions

(3)

Energetics and Systems

(6)

Spaceship Earth and Steady-State Economics

(1)

Adaptive Environmental Management

(1)

Coevolution of Ecological and Economic Systems

(5)

The Role of Neoclassical Economics in Ecological Economics

(3)

Critical Connections

(3)

Increased Efficiency and Dematerialization

(1)

Ecosystem Health

(1)

Environmental Epistemology

(1)

Political Ecology

(1)

Conclusions

(2)

3. Problems and Principles of Ecological Economics

(100)

3.1 Sustainable Scale, Fair Distribution, and Efficient Allocation

(12)

From Empty-World Economics to Full-World Economics

(1)

Reasons the Turning Point Has Not Been Noticed

(1)

Complementarity vs. Substitutability

(1)

Policy Implications of the Turning Point

(5)

Initial Policy Response to the Historical Turning Point

(1)

3.2 Ecosystems, Biodiversity, and Ecological Services

(8)

Biodiversity and Ecosystems

(1)

Ecosystems and Ecological Services

(1)

Defining and Predicting Sustainability in Ecological Terms

(3)

Ecosystems as Sustainable Systems

(1)

3.3 Substitutability vs. Complementarity of Natural, Human, and Manufactured Capital

100

(8)

Growth vs. Development

102

(2)

More on Complementarity vs. Substitutability

104

(1)

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