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Investing in natural capital : the ecological economics approach to sustainability / edited by AnnMari Jansson [and others] ; technical editor, Sandra Koskoff ; foreword by Olof Johansson.

Contributor(s): Jansson, A.-M | Koskoff, Sandra | Johansson, Olof
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [1994]Copyright date: ©1994Description: xvi, 504 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1559633166 (pbk. : alk paper)Subject(s): Sustainable development -- Congresses | Natural resources -- Management -- Congresses | Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses | Environmental economics -- CongressesDDC classification: 333.7 LOC classification: HD75.6 | .I59 1994Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Local Note: From the Glenmary Research Center Library.Differentiable Local Note:
Contents:
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 and Bengt-Owe Jansson -- Biotic diversity, sustainable development, and natural capital / Charles Perrings -- 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 and 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 and I. Kaganovich -- Multiple use of environmental resources : a household production function approach to valuing natural capital / Karl-Goran Maler, Ing-Marie Gren, and Carl Folke -- Strategies for environmentally sound economic development / Faye Duchin and Glenn-Marie Lange.
Sea-level rise and coastal wetlands in the U.K. : mitigation strategies for sustainable management / R. K. Turner, P. Doktor, and 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 and Gordon R. Munro -- Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity : measuring the natural capital requirements of the human economy / William E. Rees and 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 and Jeffrey P. Kash -- Public policy : challenge to ecological economics / Stephen Viederman -- Investing in natural and human capital in developing countries / Olman Segura and James K. Boyce.

Contributions to a workshop held in August 1992 near Stockholm, Sweden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 and Bengt-Owe Jansson -- Biotic diversity, sustainable development, and natural capital / Charles Perrings -- 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 and 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 and I. Kaganovich -- Multiple use of environmental resources : a household production function approach to valuing natural capital / Karl-Goran Maler, Ing-Marie Gren, and Carl Folke -- Strategies for environmentally sound economic development / Faye Duchin and Glenn-Marie Lange.

Sea-level rise and coastal wetlands in the U.K. : mitigation strategies for sustainable management / R. K. Turner, P. Doktor, and 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 and Gordon R. Munro -- Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity : measuring the natural capital requirements of the human economy / William E. Rees and 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 and Jeffrey P. Kash -- Public policy : challenge to ecological economics / Stephen Viederman -- Investing in natural and human capital in developing countries / Olman Segura and James K. Boyce.

From the Glenmary Research Center Library.

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