Kant Shashi and Berry R.Albert

Economics, sustainability, and natural resources : economics of sustainable forest management / edited by Shashi Kant and R. Albert Berry. - Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer, c2005. - xviii, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Economic s, Sustainability, and Natural Resources . - Sustainability, economics, and natural resources ; . - Sustainability, economics, and natural resources ; 1. .

Table of Contents

Figure and tables ix

About the contributors xi

Preface and Acknowledgement xvii

1. Sustainability, Economics, and Forest Management 1

PART ONE: COMPLEXITY, ETHICS, AND THE ECONOMIC OF SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT
2. Complexity, Muddling Through, and sustainable forest management 23
3. Inter- temporal Ethics, modern capital Theory and the Economics of sustainable forest management 39
PART TWO: CONSUMER CHOICE THEORY AND THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT
4. Post- Keynesian consumer choice Theory for the Economics of sustainable forest management 67
5. Behavioral Economics and sustainable forest management 91
6. How sustainable is discounting? 105
PART THREE: SOCIAL CHOICE THEORY AND THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT
7. Intergenerational Equity and the forest management problem 137
8. Can stock- specific sustainability constraints be justified? 175
PART FOUR: NON –LINEARITIES, MULTIPLE EQUILIBRIA AND THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEGEMENT
9. Complexities of Dynamic of forest management policies 191
10. Nonlinearities, Biodiversity Conservation, and sustainable forest management 207
11. Join Forest Management : Experience and modeling 223
PART FIVE: Epilogue
Post-Newtonian Economics and sustainable forest management 253
Index 269


Companion volume to: Institutions, sustainability, and natural resources : institutions for sustainable forest management.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Barry R. Robert


Sustainable forestry.
Forest management--Economic aspects.
Forest management--Environmental aspects.
Foresterie durable.
Forêts--Gestion--Aspect économique.
Forêts--Gestion--Aspect de l'environnement.

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