Ecological economics : the science and management of sustainability /
Ecological economics is a new transdisciplinary approach to understanding and managing the ecology and economics of our world for sustainability on local, regional, and global scales. The previous isolation of these two fields has led to economic and environmental policies that have been mutually de...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[1991], ©1991
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| Summary: | Ecological economics is a new transdisciplinary approach to understanding and managing the ecology and economics of our world for sustainability on local, regional, and global scales. The previous isolation of these two fields has led to economic and environmental policies that have been mutually destructive rather than reinforcing in the long term. This book brings together these two disciplines in chapters covering the basic worldview of ecological economics; accounting, modeling, and analysis of ecological economicl systems; and necessary institutional changes and case studies |
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| Item Description: | Based on papers presented at a workshop held May 24-26, 1990 at the Aspen Institute This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 525 p. : ill. ; 26 cm xiii, 525 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm xiii, 525 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm xiii, 525 p. ; ill. ; 26 cm xiii, 525 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm xiii, 525 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0231075626 (casebound : alk. paper) : 0231075626 (casebound : alk. paper) 0231075626 0231075634 (pbk.) 0231075634 9780231075626 (casebound : alk. paper) 9780231075626 9780231075633 |