Frontiers in Ecological Economic Theory and ApplicationJon David Erickson, John M. Gowdy Research on the cutting edge of economics, ecology, and ethics is presented in this timely study. Building from a theoretical critique of the tradition of cost-benefit analysis, the contributors lay the foundation for a macroeconomics of environmental sustainability and distributive justice. Attention is then turned to three of the most critical areas of social and environmental applied research - biodiversity, climate change, and energy. The contributors redefine progress away from growth and toward development. To this end, the first section of the book tackles the dominant framework used in the US today to evaluate tradeoffs between economic growth and its inherent externalities. Succeeding chapters cover a wide variety of studies related to biodiversity health and energy. Each section is anchored with overviews by top scholars in these areas - including Herman Daly, Carl McDaniel, Stephen Schneider, and Nathan Hagens - and followed by detailed analyses reflecting the transdisciplinary approach of ecological economics. Students and scholars of ecological, environmental, and natural resource economics, sustainability sciences, and environmental studies will find this book of great interest. Non-profit and government agencies in search of methods and cases that merge the study of ecology and economics will also find the analyses of great practical value. |
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... context , NCE has generated a remarkable variety of analytical contributions that are relevant also to Ecological Economics , despite some surprising methodological paradoxes.2 It is one of the para- doxes of the history of thought that ...
... context - NCE has no scruple to form a single sum of the utility of all humans in present value terms over a time period from now to eternity . At the same time , however , NCE refuses to compare the well - being of two contemporaries ...
... context of SD . The SEE index adds to that framework as an empirical and graphical tool for understanding energy issues in the context of the three dimensions of sustainable development . The objective of this chapter is to integrate ...
Contents
costbenefit analysis of past successes | 7 |
Reorienting macroeconomic theory towards | 36 |
dismantling | 53 |
Copyright | |
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