Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
The Economics of Climate Change and the Change of Climate in Economics
1st Edition
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By Kevin Maréchal
May 16, 2014
Climate change is without question the single most important issue the world faces over the next hundred years. The most recent scientific data have led to the conclusion that the globally averaged net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming and that continued greenhouse gas ...
Greening the Economy: Integrating economics and ecology to make effective change
1st Edition
By Robert Williams
November 08, 2013
Professor Bob Williams examines the essential elements that give ecosystems their durability. These key characteristics are: self-regulating cycles of key materials, a plentiful and durable energy source, an ability to adjust to changing circumstances, and the capacity for resiliency in the face of...
Environment and Employment: A Reconciliation
1st Edition
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By Philip Lawn
November 20, 2012
Mounting evidence suggests that GDP growth is damaging the natural environment and unlikely to be ecologically sustainable in the long-run. At the same time, an annual GDP growth rate of around three percent is regarded as the minimum necessary to prevent unemployment from escalating. Clearly, a ...
Ecology and Power: Struggles over Land and Material Resources in the Past, Present and Future
1st Edition
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By Alf Hornborg, Brett Clark, Kenneth Hermele
October 19, 2012
Power and social inequality shape patterns of land use and resource management. This book explores this relationship from different perspectives, illuminating the complexity of interactions between human societies and nature. Most of the contributors use the perspective of "political ecology" as a ...
Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange: Fetishism in a Zero-Sum World
1st Edition
By Alf Hornborg
October 18, 2012
In modern society, we tend to have faith in technology. But is our concept of ‘technology’ itself a cultural illusion? This book challenges the idea that humanity as a whole is united in a common development toward increasingly efficient technologies. Instead it argues that modern technology ...
The Planet in 2050: The Lund Discourse of the Future
1st Edition
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By Jill Jäger, Sarah Cornell
July 23, 2012
In 2050, the billions of people living on Earth have found a way to manage the planetary system effectively. Everyone has access to adequate food, shelter, and clean water. Human health is no longer considered outside of the health of the ecosystems in which people live. Ecological awareness is an ...
Philosophical Basics of Ecology and Economy
1st Edition
By Malte Faber, Reiner Manstetten
June 28, 2012
In today's world – despite the dramatic anthropogenic environmental changes – a proper understanding of the relationship between humanity and nature requires a certain detachment. The pressing problems in their whole extent will only be fully understood and solved with comprehensive and patient ...
Environmental Social Accounting Matrices: Theory and applications
1st Edition
By Pablo Martínez de Anguita, John E. Wagner
May 09, 2012
In this book Professors Pablo Martínez de Anguita and John E. Wagner put two disciplines together, regional and ecological economics, presenting a way to understand ecological economic concerns from a regional perspective, and providing a mathematical tool to measure their interrelationships. This ...
Carbon Responsibility and Embodied Emissions: Theory and Measurement
1st Edition
By João F. D. Rodrigues, Tiago M. D. Domingos, Alexandra P.S. Marques
December 15, 2011
Climate change policy and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions are currently discussed at all scales, ranging from the Kyoto Protocol to the increasingly frequent advertisement of ''carbon neutrality'' in consumer products. However, the only policy option usually considered is the reduction of...
Sustainable Development: Capabilities, Needs, and Well-being
1st Edition
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By Felix Rauschmayer, Ines Omann, Johannes Frühmann
November 24, 2011
This groundbreaking new work establishes links between sustainable development, needs, well-being, and the capabilities approach that is central to human development and the United Nations Development Programme. By challenging the role of people in sustainability policy, this collection’s argument ...
Sustainability Networks: Cognitive Tools for Expert Collaboration in Social-Ecological Systems
1st Edition
By Janne Hukkinen
June 15, 2011
Sustainability is a word that means different things depending on who is using it, thus underlining the potential problems involved in experts from different fields teaming up to tackle sustainability problems. In this book, Janne Hukkinen argues for a reflexive approach to sustainability as a ...
Resilience, Reciprocity and Ecological Economics: Northwest Coast Sustainability
1st Edition
By Ronald Trosper
March 11, 2011
How did one group of indigenous societies, on the Northwest Coast of North America, manage to live sustainably with their ecosystems for over two thousand years? Can the answer to this question inform the current debate about sustainability in today’s social ecological systems? The answer to the ...