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21. Hybrid Economic-Environmental Accounts

    Edited by Valeria Costantini, Massimiliano Mazzanti, Anna Montini

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

    National Accounting Matrices of Environmental Accounts (NAMEA) tables are used to analyze a range of environmental pressures and economic data resulting from consumption and production patterns – helping us gain a far better notion of the consequences of individuals’, households’ and firms’ actions...

    Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
22. Sustainable Development

    Capabilities, Needs, and Well-being

    Edited by Felix Rauschmayer, Ines Omann, Johannes Frühmann

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

    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...

    Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
23. Energy Security for the EU in the 21st Century

    Markets, Geopolitics and Corridors

    Edited by José María Marín Quemada, Javier García-Verdugo, Gonzalo Escribano

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

    Recent developments like the rising trend in crude oil price, the international economic crisis, the civil revolts in Northern Africa and the Middle East, the nuclear threat in Japan after the tsunami, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the economic growth of emerging countries like China and...

    Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge
24. The Metabolic Pattern of Societies

    Where Economists Fall Short

    By Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi, Alevgül Sorman

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

    It is increasingly evident that the conventional scientific approach to economic processes and related sustainability issues is seriously flawed. No economist predicted the current planetary crisis even though the world has now undergone five severe recessions primed by dramatic increases in the...

    Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
25. Frontiers of Environmental Input-Output Analysis

    By Shigemi Kagawa

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

    Input-Output Analysis (IOA) is widely used in the field of ecological economics, industrial ecology, and environmental sciences. Industrial Ecology (IE) and Ecological Economics (EE) are promising and growing fields. IOA plays a crucial role in analyzing the related environmental and resource...

    Published August 25th 2011 by Routledge
26. Sustainability Networks

    Cognitive Tools for Expert Collaboration in Social-Ecological Systems

    By Janne Hukkinen

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

    Sustainability is a word that means different things depending on who is using it, thus underlining the potential problems involved in experts from different fields teaming up to tackle sustainability problems. In this book, Janne Hukkinen argues for a reflexive approach to sustainability as a...

    Published June 14th 2011 by Routledge
27. From Bioeconomics to Degrowth

    Georgescu-Roegen's 'New Economics' in Eight Essays

    By Nicolas Georgescu-Roegen

    Edited by Mauro Bonaiuti

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

    Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's (1906-94) most original contribution is his bioeconomic theory. Based on a profound rethinking of the foundations of neoclassical economics, bioeconomics represents a completely new paradigm compared to both the standard and the Marxist approach. Opening economics to...

    Published March 31st 2011 by Routledge
28. Waste and Recycling

    Theory and Empirics

    By Takayoshi Shinkuma, Shunsuke Managi

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

    As "business as usual" has become the mantra of today's world, it's unlikely to see a decrease in hazardous waste generated from greater economic growth. Written by renowned experts, the book suggests a solution, supported by theoretical arguments to this waste problem. The book discusses how main...

    Published March 24th 2011 by Routledge
29. Resilience, Reciprocity and Ecological Economics

    Northwest Coast Sustainability

    By Ronald Trosper

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

    How did one group of indigenous societies, on the Northwest Coast of North America, manage to live sustainably with their ecosystems for over two thousand years? Can the answer to this question inform the current debate about sustainability in today’s social ecological systems? The answer to the...

    Published March 9th 2011 by Routledge
30. Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts on Agriculture in the New Europe

    Post-Communist Transition and Accession to the European Union

    By Serban Scrieciu

    Series: Routledge Studies in 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). Scrieciu explores developments in eleven Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries and argues for agriculture’s natural place in these...

    Published February 22nd 2011 by Routledge