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Volume 1: A Survey of Ecological Economics

Edited by: Krishnan, Rajaram; Harris, Jonathan M.; Goodwin, Neva R.

Series Editor: Neva R. Goodwin

Published by: Island Press, Washington, DC 1995

ISBN: 1-55963-410-3

  Authors of Original Articles
  Series Introduction
  Preface

PART I
Historical Perspectives

  Overview Essay
  Historical Roots for Ecological Economics: Biophysical Versus Allocative Approaches
  The Teleological View of Wealth: A Historical Perspective
   The Convergence of Neo-Ricardian and Embodied Energy Theories of Value and Price
  Energy and Energetics in Economic Theory: A Review Essay
  Introduction to Ecological Economics: Energy, Environment and Society
  The History of the Future
  Biophysical and Marxist Economics: Learning From Each Other
  Biophysical Economics: Historical Perspective and Current Research Trends
  World Environmental History and Economic Development
  The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis
  The Case That the World Has Reached Limits
  One Part Wisdom: The Great Debate
  Environmental Significance of Development Theory

PART II
Definition, Scope, and InterDiscplinary Issues

  Overview Essay
  Toward an Ecological Economics
  Foundations of an Ecological Economics
  The Case for Methodological Pluralism
  Economics and Ecology: A Comparison of Experimental Methodologies and Philosophies
  Interdisciplinary Research Between Economists and Physical Scientists: Retrospect and Prospect
  Rethinking Ecological and Economic Education: A Gestalt Shift
  Industrial Ecology: Reflections on a Colloquium
  Sustainable Development: A Co-Evolutionary View
  Sustainable Development: A Critical Review
  Recovering the Real Meaning of Sustainability
  The Difficulty in Defining Sustainability
   Sustainable Development: What is to be Done?
  The Concept of Sustainability: Origins, Extensions, and Usefulness for Policy

PART III
Theoretical Frameworks and Techniques

  Overview Essay
  On the Ideological Foundations of Environmental Policy
  Towards an Ecological Economics of Sustainability
  Alternative Approaches to Economic-Environmental Interactions
  Introduction to the Steady-State Economy
  Allocation, Distribution, and Scale: Towards an Economics that is Efficient, Just, and Sustainable
  The Economic Growth Debate: What Some Economists Have Learned But Many Have Not
  The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth
  Steady-State Economies and the Command Economy
  Allocation, Distribution and Scale as Determinants of Environmental Degradation: Case Studies of Haiti, El Salvador, and Costa Rica
  On Economics as a Life Science
  The Entropy Law and the Economic Process in Retrospect
  Thermodynamic and Economic Concepts as Related to Resource-Use Policies
  Thermodynamic and Economic Concepts as Related to Resource-Use Policies: Comment and Reply
  Economics, Ethics, and the Environment
  Neoclassical and Institutional Approaches to Development and the Environment
  Economics as Mechanics and the Demise of Biological Diversity
  Reserved Rationality and the Precautionary Principle: Technological Change, Time, and Uncertainty in Environmental Decision Making
  Conservation Reconsidered
  The Human Firm in the Natural Environment: A Socio-Economic Analysis of Its Behavior

PART IV
Energy and Resource Flow Analysis

  Overview Essay
  The Entropy Law and the Economic Problem
   Energy and Economic Myths
  Consumption, Production, and Technological Progress: A Unified Entropic Approach
  Is the Entropy Law Relevant to the Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity?
  Is the Entropy Law Relevant to the Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity?: Comment
  Is the Entropy Law Relevant to the Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity? – Yes, of Course It Is!
  Recycling, Thermodynamics, and Environmental Thrift
  Thermodynamics and Economics
  Energy Costs: A Review of Methods
   Energy and Money
  Embodied Energy and Economic Valuation
  Energy and the U.S. Economy: A Biophysical Perspective
  Natural Resource Scarcity and Economic Growth Revisited: Economic and Biophysical Perspectives
  The Biophysical Systems World View
  Energy, Labor, and the Conserver Society
  Industrial Metabolism
  Industrial Input-Output Analysis: Implications for Industrial Ecology
  Implementing Industrial Ecology

PART V
Accounting and Evaluation

  Overview Essay
  Environmental and Resource Accounting: An Overview
   Three Dilemmas of Environmental Accounting
  Correcting National Income for Environmental Losses: A Practical Solution for a Theoretical Dilemma
  GNP and Market Prices: Wrong Signals for Sustainable Economic Success That Mask Environmental Destruction
  A Survey of Resource and Environmental Accounting in Industrialized Countries
  Toward an Exact Human Ecology
  Energy Analysis and Economic Valuation
   Integrated Environmental-Economic Accounting, Natural Resource Accounts, and Natural Resource Management in Africa
  Development, the Environment, and the Social Rate of Discount
  Economic Indicators of Resource Scarcity: A Critical Essay
  Valuing Environmental Damage
  Some Problems with Environmental Economics
  The Worth of a Songbird: Ecological Economics as a Post-Normal Science

PART VI
International Economic Relations, Development and The Environment

  Overview Essay
  Ten Reasons Why Northern Income Growth Is Not the Solution to Southern Poverty
  International Assistance: A Problem Posing as a Solution
  The Case for Free Trade
  The Perils of Free Trade
  Trading Off the Future: Making World Trade Environmentally Sustainable
   Development, Poverty, and the Growth of the Green Movement in India
  Third World Development and Population
  Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique
  Environmental Change and Violent Conflict
  Global Commons: Site of Peril, Source of Hope

PART VII
Ethical and Institutional Issues in Ecological Economics

  Overview Essay
  Intergenerational Justice as Opportunity
  Introduction: The Ethics of Sustainable Development
   The Age of Plenty: A Christian View
  The Search for an Environmental Ethic
  Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects
   Legal Rights for Nature: The Wrong Answer to the Right(s) Question
  Intergenerational Justice in Energy Policy
  Sustainable Rural Development in Latin America: Building from the Bottom Up
  Global Institutions and Ecological Crisis


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