The Development of Ecological Economics (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series, 75) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 185898386X ISBN 13: 9781858983868

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997

Synopsis

Contains reprints of 43 excerpts and articles published between 1955 and 1995. Contributions include Kenneth Boulding's classic, "The Economics of Coming Spaceship Earth" (1966), Herman E. Daly's "Allocation, Distribution, and Scale: Towards an Economics that is Efficient, Just, and Sustainable" (1992), and Charles Perring's "Conservation of Mass and Instability in a Dynamic Economy-Environment System" (1986). Six sections cover historical roots and motivations; basic organizing principles of ecological economics; material and energy flows in ecological and economic systems: theory and applications; accounting for natural capital, ecological limits and sustainable scale; valuation of ecological services; and integrated ecological economic modelling and assessment. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author:

Edited by Robert Costanza, Professor and Chair in Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Charles Perrings, Professor of Environmental Economics, Vice-Chair, Diversitas, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, US and Cutler J. Cleveland, Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Boston University, US

Review:

` . . . by including a vast number of papers that are generally reflective of the historical and the current state of the subject, the editors have - for the most part - succeeded in providing a useful reference on the development of ecological economics. The acquisition of this book is likely to benefit libraries and active researchers in ecological economics the most.' -- Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Kyklos

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 185898386X
• ISBN 13: 9781858983868
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 816
• Editor: Costanza Robert, Perrings Charles, Cleveland Cutler J.