An Introduction to Ecological Economics,9781884015724

An Introduction to Ecological Economics

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ISBN13: 9781884015724
ISBN10: 1884015727
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-07-01
Publisher(s): CRC Pr I Llc
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Summary

This is an official publication of the International Society for Ecological Economics. It is designed to be the first major text merging both ecology and economy. This book provides a complete and comprehensive treatment of this newly emerging field.

Table of Contents

Preface xi(1)
Acknowledgments xii
1. Humanity's Current Dilemma
1(18)
1.1 The Global Ecosystem and the Economic Subsystem
6(1)
1.2 From Localized Limits to Global Limits
7(7)
First Evidence of Limits: Human Biomass Appropriation
8(1)
Second Evidence of Limits: Climate Change
9(2)
Third Evidence of Limits: Ozone Shield Rupture
11(1)
Fourth Evidence of Limits: Land Degradation
12(1)
Fifth Evidence of Limits: Biodiversity Loss
13(1)
1.3 Population and Poverty
14(1)
1.4 Beyond Brundtland
15(1)
1.5 Toward Sustainability
16(1)
1.6 The Fragmentation of Economics and the Natural Sciences
17(2)
2. The Historical Development of Economics and Ecology
19(58)
2.1 The Early Codevelopment of Economics and Natural Science
23(23)
Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand
23(2)
Thomas Malthus and Population Growth
25(2)
David Ricardo and the Geographic Pattern of Economic Activity
27(1)
Sadi Carnot, Rudolf Clausius, and Thermodynamics
28(1)
Charles Darwin and the Evolutionary Paradigm
29(3)
John Stuart Mill and the Steady-State
32(1)
Karl Marx and the Ownership of Resources
33(3)
W. Stanley Jevons and the Scarcity of Stock Resources
36(1)
Ernst Haeckel and the Beginnings of Ecology
36(2)
Alfred J. Lotka and Systems Thinking
38(1)
A. C. Pigou and Market Failure
39(3)
Harold Hotelling and the Efficient Use of Resources over Time
42(4)
2.2 Economics and Ecology Specialize and Separate
46(2)
2.3 The Reintegration of Ecology and Economics
48(29)
General System Theory
51(2)
Open-Access Resource Management and Commons Institutions
53(3)
Energetics and Systems
56(6)
Spaceship Earth and Steady-State Economics
62(1)
Adaptive Environmental Management
63(1)
Coevolution of Ecological and Economic Systems
64(5)
The Role of Neoclassical Economics in Ecological Economics
69(3)
Critical Connections
72(3)
Increased Efficiency and Dematerialization
72(1)
Ecosystem Health
73(1)
Environmental Epistemology
74(1)
Political Ecology
75(1)
Conclusions
75(2)
3. Problems and Principles of Ecological Economics
77(100)
3.1 Sustainable Scale, Fair Distribution, and Efficient Allocation
80(12)
From Empty-World Economics to Full-World Economics
83(1)
Reasons the Turning Point Has Not Been Noticed
84(1)
Complementarity vs. Substitutability
85(1)
Policy Implications of the Turning Point
86(5)
Initial Policy Response to the Historical Turning Point
91(1)
3.2 Ecosystems, Biodiversity, and Ecological Services
92(8)
Biodiversity and Ecosystems
94(1)
Ecosystems and Ecological Services
95(1)
Defining and Predicting Sustainability in Ecological Terms
96(3)
Ecosystems as Sustainable Systems
99(1)
3.3 Substitutability vs. Complementarity of Natural, Human, and Manufactured Capital
100(8)
Growth vs. Development
102(2)
More on Complementarity vs. Substitutability
104(1)
More on Natural Capital
104(2)
Sustainability and Maintaining Natural Capital
106(2)
3.4 Population and Carrying Capacity
108(3)
3.5 Measuring Welfare and Well-Being
111(29)
The GNP and Its Political Importance
112(2)
GNP: Concepts and Measurement
114(6)
From GNP to Hicksian Income and Sustainable Development
120(7)
From GNP to a Measure of Economic Welfare
127(5)
The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare
132(3)
Toward a Measure of Total Human Welfare
135(4)
Alternative Models of Wealth and Utility
139(1)
3.6 Valuation, Choice, and Uncertainty
140(16)
Fixed Tastes and Preferences and Consumer Sovereignty
141(1)
Valuation of Ecosystems and Preferences
142(2)
Uncertainty, Science, and Environmental Policy
144(4)
Technological Optimism vs. Prudent Skepticism
148(3)
Social Traps
151(1)
Escaping Social Traps
152(2)
The Dollar Auction Game
154(2)
3.7 Trade and Community
156(21)
Free Trade?
157(1)
Community and Individual Well-Being
158(1)
Community, Environmental Management, and Sustainability
159(5)
Globalization, Transaction Costs, and Environmental Externalities
164(3)
Policy Implications
167(10)
4. Policies, Institutions, and Instruments
177(66)
4.1 The Need to Develop a Shared Vision of a Sustainable Society
177(3)
4.2 History of Environmental Institutions and Instruments
180(5)
4.3 Success, Failures, and Remedies
185(7)
The Policy Role of Non-Government Organizations
186(1)
Adaptive Ecological Economic Assessment and Management
187(2)
Habitat Protection, Intergenerational Transfers, and Equity
189(3)
4.4 Policy Instruments
192(51)
Regulatory Systems
195(2)
Incentive-Based Systems: Alternatives to Regulatory Control
197(9)
The Role of Economic Efficiency
198(1)
Pollution Fees and Subsidies
199(1)
Popular Critiques of the Incentives for Efficiency Approach
200(4)
Advantages and Disadvantages of Incentive-Based Systems of Regulation
204(3)
Three Policies to Achieve Sustainability
206(11)
Natural Capital Depletion (NCD) Tax
207(2)
The Precautionary Polluter Pays Principle (4P)
209(6)
Ecological Tariffs: Making Trade Sustainable
215(1)
Toward Ecological Tax Reform
215(2)
A Transdisciplinary Pollution Control Policy Instrument
217(5)
Implementation and Operational Considerations
221(1)
Appropriate Policies, Instruments, and Institutions for Governance at Different Levels of Spatial Aggregation
222(21)
The Local Level
222(6)
Land Purchasing and Conservation Easements
226(1)
Full-Cost Pricing
227(1)
The Regional Level: Reducing Counterproductive Interregional Competition for Growth
228(2)
The National Level: Toxic Release Inventory and the Public's Right to Know
230(4)
The EIS as a National Policy Instrument
231(1)
Ecological Labeling
232(1)
Other National Policies
232(2)
The International Level and the Third World
234(2)
The Global Level
236(3)
Conclusions
239(4)
Further Reading 243(2)
References 245(22)
About the Authors 267(2)
Index 269

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