Ecological Economics

_x000D_ This book analyses energy development in the broader context of economic and social changes, and evaluates the implications of ecological limits to growth on the economic system whilst arguing that the existing capitalist system is fundamentally incompatible with ecological sustainability. T..

The debate on the physical limits and constraints to the economic growth of globalized society is now widespread. This book explores the physical and economic aspects of the conflict between humans, with their thoughtless focus on growth through material production, and environmental constraints...

Approaches to decision making and accounting at the national- and business levels have to be reconsidered in light of climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution of land and water, land-use changes, lack of equality and other problems. Cost-Benefit Analysis is clearly not helping to address these i..

This book identifies several areas in which we must fundamentally rethink our societal organisation. They ask what it means to abandon the objective of economic growth; how we can encourage the emergence of other visions to guide society; how global visions and local transition initiatives should be..

This book critically assesses a broad range of policy mechanisms that are being negotiated for a post Kyoto (post-2012) climate governance regime at international, national and local levels, across both public and private sectors. The author's interdisciplinary angle represents a vastly different ap..

This text presents a unique integration of both mainstream and ecological approaches to environmental economics, introducing relevant mainstream economic theories and methodologies while incorporating the idea that it is essential to focus on the links between economic, social, and ecological system..

Written in a way that facilitates understanding of sometimes difficult concepts and laws, this book discusses the demographic transition and the escape from the Malthusian trap. It also covers the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis that examines the relation between polluting outputs and economi..

Based on the author’s experience working on environmental projects, this book provides a practical guide to environmental remediation and cleanups. It offers guidance on tasks that range from managing contractors to gathering data, selecting a suitable remediation technology, and calculating remedia..

The purpose of this book is to assess the technical, economic and ecologic ability of US forests to meet future US energy needs, especially for transportation fuels and electric power, along with detailed case studies from several US regions...

Since becoming fully established in the late 1980s, ecological economics has combined a questioning of the basis of mainstream economics with a concern for environmental degradation and limits to growth. With contributions from an array of leading international figures, this handbook showcases the d..

To date, no one volume in the Innovations in GIS series has addressed the use of up-to-date GIS-based techniques in a range of socio-economic applications. Socio-Economic Applications of Geographic Information Science begins with a short introductory chapter on the fundamental principles of GIS, fol..

This book looks at agriculture and the environment, placed within the dynamic context of post-communist societal change and entry into the European Union (EU). S. Serban Scrieciu explores developments in eleven Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries and argues for agriculture’s natural place i..