Ecological economics : the science and management of sustainability / edited by Robert Costanza ; technical editor, Lisa Wainger.
Publication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c1991.Description: xiii, 525 p. : ill., map ; 26 cmISBN:- 0231075626 (casebound : alk. paper) :
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Table of Contents
Preface xi
Contributors xiii
1. Goals, Agenda and Policy Recommendations for Ecological Economics 1
Part I. Developing an Ecological Economic World View
2. What do we want to sustain?: Environmentalism and Human Evaluations 22
3. Elements of Environmental Macroeconomics 47
4. Paramount positions in Ecological Economics 47
5. Sustainability and problem of valuation 58
6. Driving forces, Increasing Returns and Ecological Sustainability 75
7. Sustainability and Discounting the future 88
8. Ecological Health and Sustainable Resource Management 102
9. Environmental policy and Distributional Conflicts 118
10. A New scientific methodology for global Environmental Issues 137
11. Reserved Rationality and the Precautionary principles: Technological change, time and Uncertainty in Environmental Decision Making 153
Part II. Accounting, Modeling and Analysis
12. The Environment as Capital 168
13. Alternative Environmental and Resource Accounting Approaches 176
14. Correcting National Income for Environmental Losses: A Practical solution for a Theoretical Dilemma 194
15. National Accounting, Time and the Environment: A Neo- a Neo- Austrian Approach 214
16. Accounting for Ecological Systems 234
17. Contributory Values of Ecosystem Resources 253
18. Ecological Economic analysis for Regional Sustainable Development 269
19. Natural Resource Scarcity and Economic Growth Revisited: Economic and Biophysical Perspectives 289
Part III. Institutional Changes and Case Studies
Incentives and Instruments:
20. Economic Biases against Sustainable Development 319
21. Assuring Sustainability of Ecological Economic Systems 331
22. Local and Global Incentives for Sustainability: Failures in Economic Systems 344
23. Intergenerational Transfers and Ecological Sustainability 355
24. Economic Strategies for Mitigating the Impacts of Climate change on Future Generations 367
25. The Roles of Economic Incentives in International Allocation of Abatement Effort 384
Education:
26. Rethinking Ecological and Economic Education: A Gestalt Shift 400
27. Ecological Economics and Multidisciplinary Education 416
Case Studies
28. Ecological Engineering: Approaches to Sustainability and Biodiversity in the US and China 428
29. On the Significance of Open Boundaries for an Ecologically sustainable development of Human Societies 449
30.. Integrated agro-Industrial Ecosystems: An Assessment of the Sustainability of a Cogenerative Approach to food, Energy and Chemicals production by Photosynthesis 459
31. Government Policy and Ecological Concerns: Some Lessons from the Brazilian Experience 474
32. Tropical Moist Forest management: The Urgency of Transition to Sustainability 486
Index 517
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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