Keywords:
Ecology - Economic aspects.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Provides an urgently needed alternative to the dominant neoclassical paradigm of the free market, which has focused fatally on the boundless production and consumption of goods and services without heed to environmental consequences.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (408 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780231540421
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=2121576
DDC:
333.7
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword, by Jon D. Erickson -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Unfinished Journey of Ecological Economics, by Peter G. Brown and Peter Timmerman -- Part I. Proposed Ethical Foundations of Ecological Economics -- Introduction and Chapter Summaries -- 1. The Ethics of Re-Embedding Economics in the Real: Case Studies, by Peter Timmerman -- 2. Ethics for Economics in the Anthropocene, by Peter G. Brown -- 3. Justice Claims Underpinning Ecological Economics, by Richard Janda and Richard Lehun -- Part II. Measurements: Understanding and Mapping Where We Are -- Introduction and Chapter Summaries -- 4. Measurement of Essential Indicators in Ecological Economics, by Mark S. Goldberg and Geoffrey Garver -- 5. Boundaries and Indicators: Conceptualizing and Measuring Progress Toward an Economy of Right Relationship Constrained by Global Ecological Limits, by Geoffrey Garver and Mark S. Goldberg -- 6. Revisiting the Metaphor of Human Health for Assessing Ecological Systems and Its Application to Ecological Economics, by Mark S. Goldberg, Geoffrey Garver, and Nancy E. Mayo -- 7. Following in Aldo Leopold's Footsteps: Humans-in-Ecosystem and Implications for Ecosystem Health, by Qi Feng Lin and James W. Fyles -- Part III. Steps Toward Realizing an Ecological Economy -- Introduction and Chapter Summaries -- 8. Toward an Ecological Macroeconomics, by Peter Victor and Tim Jackson -- 9. New Corporations for an Ecological Economy: A Case Study, by Richard Janda, Philip Duguay, and Richard Lehun -- 10. Ecological Political Economy and Liberty, by Bruce Jennings -- 11. A New Ethos, a New Discourse, a New Economy: Change Dynamics Toward an Ecological Political Economy, by Janice Harvey -- Conclusion. Continuing the Journey of Ecological Economics: Reorientation and Research -- List of Contributors -- Index.
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