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Building a Green Economy : Perspectives from Ecological Economics /

"Humanity is at a crossroads in our pathway to future prosperity, and our next steps will impact our long-term sustainability immensely. In this timely volume, leading ecological economics scholars offer a variety of perspectives on building a green economy. Grounded in a critique of convention...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Richardson, Robert B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Building a green economy: the case for an economic paint job / Robert B. Richardson
  • Taking ecological economics seriously: it's the biosphere stupid / David Korten
  • Beyond the ivory tower: why progress needs more ecological economists to actively engage / Kristen A. Sheeran
  • Ruin and recovery: the economics of Michigan's natural resources / David Dempsey
  • Noble savages or consummate consumers: the behavioural ecology of building a green conservation future / Bobbi S. Low
  • Green Keynesianism: beyond standard growth paradigms / Jonathan Farley and Skyler Perkins
  • The evolution of ego n' empathy: progress in forming the centrepeice for ecological economic theory / William M. Hayes and Gary D. Lynne
  • Civic empowerment in an age of corporate excess / Ed Lorenz
  • Environmental justice challenges for ecosystem service valuation / Matthew A. Weber
  • Assessing the trade-offs for an urban green economy / Myrna Hall (and 3 others)
  • Green jobs: who benefits? Demographic forecasting of job creation in U.S. gren job studies / Kyle Gracey
  • Great lakes, great debates: facilitating public engagement on offshore wind energy using the delphi inquiry approach / Erik Nordman (and 3 others)
  • Endogenous environmental discounting and climate-economy modelling / Philip Sirianni
  • A genuine metric for assessing business sustainability / Matthew P.H. Taylor (and 4 others)
  • The case for "improvement" in corporate sustainability indicators / Richard Grogan
  • Evolutions in methods and technology for research in pro-environmental behaviour / Douglas L. Bessette and Robert B. Richardson.