Authors of Original Articles | |
Series Introduction | |
Preface | |
Note to the Reader | |
Historical Roots for Ecological Economics - Biophysical Versus Allocative Approaches | p. 6 |
The Teleological View of Wealth: A Historical Perspective | p. 10 |
The Convergence of Neo-Ricardian and Embodied Energy Theories of Value and Price | p. 15 |
Energy and Energetics in Economic Theory: A Review Essay | p. 18 |
Introduction to Ecological Economics: Energy, Environment and Society | p. 21 |
The History of the Future | p. 25 |
Biophysical and Marxist Economics: Learning from Each Other | p. 27 |
Biophysical Economics: Historical Perspective and Current Research Trends | p. 29 |
World Environmental History and Economic Development | p. 33 |
The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis | p. 36 |
The Case That the World Has Reached Limits | p. 40 |
One Part Wisdom: The Great Debate | p. 43 |
Environmental Significance of Development Theory | p. 46 |
Toward an Ecological Economics | p. 55 |
Foundations of an Ecological Economics | p. 58 |
The Case for Methodological Pluralism | p. 62 |
Economics and Ecology: A Comparison of Experimental Methodologies and Philosophies | p. 66 |
Interdisciplinary Research Between Economists and Physical Scientists: Retrospect and Prospect | p. 70 |
Rethinking Ecological and Economic Education: A Gestalt Shift | p. 73 |
Industrial Ecology: Reflections on a Colloquium | p. 77 |
Sustainable Development: A Co-Evolutionary View | p. 80 |
Sustainable Development: A Critical Review | p. 83 |
Recovering the Real Meaning of Sustainability | p. 86 |
The Difficulty in Defining Sustainability | p. 88 |
Sustainable Development: What Is to Be Done? | p. 91 |
The Concept of Sustainability: Origins, Extensions, and Usefulness for Policy | p. 93 |
On the Ideological Foundations of Environmental Policy | p. 106 |
Towards an Ecological Economics of Sustainability | p. 108 |
Alternative Approaches to Economic-Environmental Interactions | p. 112 |
Introduction to the Steady-State Economy | p. 116 |
Allocation, Distribution, and Scale: Towards an Economics That Is Efficient, Just, and Sustainable | p. 121 |
The Economic Growth Debate: What Some Economists Have Learned but Many Have Not | p. 125 |
The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth | p. 129 |
Steady-State Economies and the Command Economy | p. 131 |
Allocation, Distribution, and Scale as Determinants of Environmental Degradation: Case Studies of Haiti, El Salvador, and Costa Rica | p. 135 |
On Economics as a Life Science | p. 138 |
The Entropy Law and the Economic Process in Retrospect | p. 140 |
Thermodynamic and Economic Concepts as Related to Resource-Use Policies | p. 142 |
Thermodynamic and Economic Concepts as Related to Resource-Use Policies: Comment and Reply | p. 146 |
Economics, Ethics, and the Environment | p. 149 |
Neoclassical and Institutional Approaches to Development and the Environment | p. 152 |
Economics as Mechanics and the Demise of Biological Diversity | p. 155 |
Reserved Rationality and the Precautionary Principle: Technological Change, Time, and Uncertainty in Environmental Decision Making | p. 158 |
Conservation Reconsidered | p. 162 |
The Human Firm in the Natural Environment: A Socio-Economic Analysis of Its Behavior | p. 165 |
The Entropy Law and the Economic Problem | p. 177 |
Selections from "Energy and Economic Myths" | p. 180 |
Consumption, Production, and Technological Progress: A Unified Entropic Approach | p. 183 |
Is the Entropy Law Relevant to the Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity? | p. 186 |
Is the Entropy Law Relevant to the Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity?: Comment | p. 190 |
Is the Entropy Law Relevant to the Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity? - Yes, of Course It Is! | p. 191 |
Recycling, Thermodynamics, and Environmental Thrift | p. 194 |
Thermodynamics and Economics | p. 197 |
Energy Costs: A Review of Methods | p. 201 |
Energy and Money | p. 204 |
Embodied Energy and Economic Valuation | p. 206 |
Energy and the U.S. Economy: A Biophysical Perspective | p. 211 |
Natural Resource Scarcity and Economic Growth Revisited: Economic and Biophysical Perspectives | p. 214 |
The Biophysical Systems World View | p. 219 |
Energy, Labor, and the Conserver Society | p. 222 |
Industrial Metabolism | p. 225 |
Industrial Input-Output Analysis: Implications for Industrial Ecology | p. 227 |
Implementing Industrial Ecology | p. 229 |
Environmental and Resource Accounting: An Overview | p. 240 |
Three Dilemmas of Environmental Accounting | p. 243 |
Correcting National Income for Environmental Losses: A Practical Solution for a Theoretical Dilemma | p. 246 |
GNP and Market Prices: Wrong Signals for Sustainable Economic Success That Mask Environmental Destruction | p. 250 |
A Survey of Resource and Environmental Accounting in Industrialized Countries | p. 252 |
Toward an Exact Human Ecology | p. 256 |
Energy Analysis and Economic Valuation | p. 259 |
Integrated Environmental-Economic Accounting, Natural Resource Accounts, and Natural Resource Management in Africa | p. 262 |
Development, the Environment, and the Social Rate of Discount | p. 266 |
Economic Indicators of Resource Scarcity: A Critical Essay | p. 271 |
Valuing Environmental Damage | p. 273 |
Some Problems with Environmental Economics | p. 276 |
The Worth of a Songbird: Ecological Economics as a Post-Normal Science | p. 280 |
Ten Reasons Why Northern Income Growth Is Not the Solution to Southern Poverty | p. 295 |
International Assistance: A Problem Posing as a Solution | p. 299 |
The Case for Free Trade | p. 302 |
The Perils of Free Trade | p. 304 |
Trading Off the Future: Making World Trade Environmentally Sustainable | p. 306 |
Development, Poverty, and the Growth of the Green Movement in India | p. 311 |
Third World Development and Population | p. 314 |
Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique | p. 317 |
Environmental Change and Violent Conflict | p. 320 |
Introduction - Global Commons: Site of Peril, Source of Hope | p. 323 |
Intergenerational Justice as Opportunity | p. 335 |
Introduction: The Ethics of Sustainable Development | p. 339 |
The Age of Plenty: A Christian View | p. 343 |
The Search for an Environmental Ethic | p. 344 |
Should Trees Have Standing? - Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects | p. 347 |
Legal Rights for Nature: The Wrong Answer to the Right(s) Question | p. 351 |
Intergenerational Justice in Energy Policy | p. 353 |
Sustainable Rural Development in Latin America: Building from the Bottom Up | p. 356 |
Global Institutions and Ecological Crisis | p. 360 |
Subject Index | p. 365 |
Name Index | p. 381 |
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