Sustainability in question : the search for a conceptual framework /
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| Format: | Book |
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Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar,
c1999
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| Series: | Advances in ecological economics
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I. Introduction: 1. The imperative of sustainability
- Part II. Conceptual frameworks revised: 2. Sustainability concepts: from theory to practice 3. What type of Economic Theory Dealing with the environment do we need? 4. Principles for sustainability: protection, investment, cooperation and innovation 5. Hierarchies in human affairs: microfoundations and environmental sustainability 6. System hierarchy, change and sustainability 7. Organising diversity 8. Throughput, scale, material input 9. Reflections upon the role of moral sentiments in economics
- Part III. Sustainable production: 10. Environmental and economic benefits of sustainable agriculture 11. Balancing private rights and public interests: lessons from Pacific Salmon and global fishery crises 12. Firms and dematerialisation 13. Sustainability and joint abatement strategies under multiple pollutants and multiple targets: the case of tropospheric ozone and acidification in Europe
- Part IV. Sustainable consumption: 14. Consumer behavior, a modeling perspective in the context of integrated assessment of global change 15. Some themes in the discussion of the quality of life 16. Sustainable consumption: a research agenda
- Part V. Sustainability and political economy: 17. Politics and economics relation to environment and development: on participation and responsibility in the conceptual framework of economics 18. A distributional barrier to ecological modernization 19. Some methodological reflections: a plea for a constitutional ecological economics
- Subject index