Ecological Economics

Ecological Economics

The Science and Management of Sustainability

  • Autor: Costanza, Robert
  • Editor: Columbia University Press
  • ISBN: 9780231075626
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780231513241
  • Lugar de publicación:  New York , Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación digital: 1992
  • Mes: Julio
  • Idioma: Ingles
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • 1. Goals, Agenda, and Policy Recommendations for Ecological Economics
  • Part I. Developing an Ecological Economic World View
    • 2. What Do We Want to Sustain? Environmentalism and Human Evaluations
    • 3. Elements of Environmental Macroeconomics
    • 4. Paramount Positions in Ecological Economics
    • 5. Sustainability and the Problem of Valuation
    • 6. Driving Forces, Increasing Returns and Ecological Sustainability
    • 7. Sustainability and Discounting the Future
    • 8. Ecological Health and Sustainable Resource Management
    • 9. Ecological Perception, Environmental Policy and Distributional Conflicts: Some Lessons from History
    • 10. A New Scientific Methodology for Global Environmental Issues
    • 11, Reserved Rationality and the Precautionary Principle: Technological Change, Time and Uncertainty in Environmental Decision Making
  • Part II. Accounting, Modeling and Analysis
    • 12. The Environment as Capital
    • 13. Alternative Environmental and Resource Accounting Approaches
    • 14. Correcting National Income for Environmental Losses: A Practical Solution for a Theoretical Dilemma
    • 15. National Accounting, Time and the Environment: A Neo-Austrian Approach
    • 16. Accounting in Ecological Systems
    • 17. Contributory Values of Ecoystem Resources
    • 18. Ecological-Economic Analysis for Regional Sustainable Development
    • 19. Natural Resource Scarcity and Economic Growth Revisted: Economic and Biophysical Perspectives
  • Part III. Institutional Changes and Case Studies
    • 20. Economic Biases Against Sustainable Development
    • 21. Assuring Sustainability of Ecological Economic Systems
    • 22. Local and Global Incentives for Sustainability: Failures in Economic Systems
    • 23. Intergenerational Transfers and Ecological Sustainability
    • 24. Economic Strategies for Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change on Future Generations
    • 25. The Role for Economic Incentives in International Allocation of Abatement Effort
    • 26. Rethinking Ecological and Economic Education: A Gestalt Shift
    • 27. Ecological Economics and Mulidisciplinary Education
    • 28. Ecological Engineering: Approaches to Sustainability and Biodiversity in the U.S. and China
    • 29. On the Significance of Open Boundaries for an Ecologically Sustainable Development of Human Socities
    • 30. Integrated Agro-Industrial Ecosystems: An Assessment of the Sustainability of a Cogenerative Approach to Food, Energy and Chemicals Production by Photosenthesis
    • 31. Government Policy and Ecological Concerns: Some Lessons from the Brazilian Experience
    • 32. Tropical Moist Forest Management: The Urgency of Transition to Sustainability
  • Index

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