The Economics of Nature and the Nature of Economics
Edited by
Cutler J. (Cleveland Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Boston University, USA)
David I. Stern (Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian; National University, Australia)
Robert Costanza (Center for Environmental Science and Biology Department and University of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics, USA)
In association with the International Society for Ecological Economics
ADVANCES IN ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
Introduction: the changing nature of economics – towards an ecological economics 1
Cutler J. Cleveland, Robert Costanza and David I. Stern
PART I THE NATURE OF ECONOMICS
1 Early links between sciences of nature and economics: historical perspectives for ecological and social economics 15
Paul P. Christensen
2 Theories and methods in ecological economics: a tentative classification 34
Joan Martinez-Alier, Giuseppe Munda and John O’Neill
3 The improvisation of discordant knowledges 57
Richard B. Norgaard
4 Searching for sustainability: the poverty of spontaneous order 74
Daniel W. Bromley
5 The challenges of valuation: ecological economics between matter and meaning 89
Sabine U. O’Hara
PART II THE ECONOMICS OF NATURE
6 The need for a new growth paradigm 111
Robert U. Ayres
7 Implementing sustainable development: a practical framework 134
Mohan Munasinghe
8 The environmental Kuznets curve: a review 193
David I. Stern
9 Alternatives to gross domestic product: a critical survey 218
Richard W. England
10 Natural resource scarcity indicators: an ecological economic synthesis 238
Cutler J. Cleveland and David I. Stern
11 Green national accounting: goals and methods 262
Robert Costanza, Steve Farber, Beatriz Castaneda and Monica Grasso
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