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Investing in natural capital : the ecological economics approach to sustainability /

Natural capital - both nonrenewable resources and the renewable resources that make up ecosystems - is potentially endangered by the human process of adapting and modifying the world around us. The results of a workshop held following the second biannual conference of the International Society for E...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jansson, A.-M
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©1994.
Colección:International Society for Ecological Economics series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Investing in natural capital--why, what, and how? / Carl Folke, et al.
  • Operationalizing sustainable development by investing in natural capital / Herman E. Daly
  • Ecological economics and the carrying capacity of earth / Paul R. Ehrlich
  • New science and new investments for a sustainable biosphere / C.S. Holling
  • Ecosystem properties as a basis for sustainability / AnnMari Jansson, Bengt-Owe Jansson
  • Sustenance and sustainability : how can we preserve and consume without major conflict? / Ralph C. d'Arge
  • Investing in cultural capital for sustainable use of natural capital / Fikret Berkes, Carl Folke
  • Environmental functions and the economic value of natural ecosystems / Rudolf S. de Groot
  • Rebuilding a humane and ethical decision system for investing in natural capital / Frank B. Golley
  • Re-allocating work between human and natural capital in agriculture : examples from India and the United States / Cutler J. Cleveland
  • The emergy of natural capital / Howard T. Odum
  • Modeling of ecological and economic systems at the watershed scale for sustainable development / V. Krysanova, I. Kaganovich
  • Multiple use of environmental resources : a household production function approach to valuing natural capital / Karl-Goran Maler, et al.
  • Strategies for environmentally sound economic development / Faye Duchin, Glenn-Marie Lange.
  • Sea-level rise and coastal wetlands in the U.K. : mitigation strategies for sustainable management / R.K. Turner, P. Doktor, N. Adger
  • Natural capital and the economics of environment and development / Edward B. Barbier
  • Can we justify sustainability? New challenges facing ecological economics / Dennis M. King
  • Renewable resources as natural capital : the fishery / Colin W. Clark, Gordon R. Munro
  • Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity : measuring the natural capital requirements of the human economy / William E. Rees, Mathis Wackernagel.
  • Three general policies to achieve sustainability / Robert Costanza
  • Implementing environmental policies in Central and Eastern Europe / Tomasz Zylicz
  • Energy production, consumption, environment, and sustainability / James J. Zucchetto
  • Economic conversion, engineers, and sustainability / Martha W. Gilliland, Jeffrey P. Kash
  • Public policy : challenge to ecological economics / Stephen Viederman
  • Investing in natural and human capital in developing countries / Olman Segura, James K. Boyce.