Ecological Economics

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..

_x000D_ Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare raises the issue of what is required to make welfare societies ecologically sustainable. Consisting of three parts, this book regards the current financial, economic and political crisis in welfare state institutions and addresses methodolo..

_x005F_x005F_x000D_ Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare raises the issue of what is required to make welfare societies ecologically sustainable. Consisting of three parts, this book regards the current financial, economic and political crisis in welfare state institutions and address..

The book is a concise introduction to an emerging field within economics. Drawing on numerous disciplines, including environmental science, environmental and ecological economics and optimal growth theory, the result is a fully international study that should bridge the gap between disciplines and p..

This groundbreaking new work establishes links between sustainable development, needs, well-being, and the capabilities approach that is central to human development and the United Nations Development Programme. By challenging the role of people in sustainability policy, this collection’s argument r..

This groundbreaking new work establishes links between sustainable development, needs, well-being, and the capabilities approach that is central to human development and the United Nations Development Programme. By challenging the role of people in sustainability policy, this collection’s argument r..

This book by leading green economist Molly Scott Cato sets out a visionary and yet rigorous account of what a bioregional approach to the economy would mean — and how to get there from here...

This book by leading green economist Molly Scott Cato sets out a visionary and yet rigorous account of what a bioregional approach to the economy would mean — and how to get there from here...

This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes...

In this book, Kevin Maréchal shows how themes and approaches from evolutionary and ecological economics can be united to provide a theoretical framework that is better suited to tackle the problem of global climate change...

This book investigates the possibility of creating an integrated indicator covering three pillars of sustainable development: economy, society and the environment. Its objective is to change the direction of economic growth towards one which is more sustainable by introducing new indicators relevant..

More and more people believe there must be a path to a good life beyond growth. But how do the economic crisis and the vision of a post-growth-society change the debate about the good life? This volume addresses the complex relations between the crisis of the growth paradigm and conceptions of the g..