Description |
xxxiii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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New horizons in environmental economics |
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New horizons in environmental economics.
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Contents |
Pt. I. The Control and Sustainability of Ecological-Economic Systems. 1. Conservation of mass and the time behaviour of ecological-economic systems. 2. Ecological sustainability and environmental control. 3. Ecological resilience in the sustainability of economic development. 4. Towards an ecological economics of sustainability (with M.S. Common) -- Pt. II. The Economic Environment and Ecological Change. 5. An optimal path to extinction? Poverty and resource degradation in the open agrarian economy. 6. Industrial growth, rural income and the overexploitation of land in the dual economy. 7. Stress, shock and the sustainability of resource use in semi-arid environments -- Pt. III. Uncertainty, Innovation and Choice. 8. Reserved rationality and the precautionary principle: technological change, time and uncertainty in environmental decision-making. 9. Environmental bonds and environmental research in innovative activities |
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10. Biodiversity, sustainable development and natural capital -- Postscript: ecology, economics and ecological economics |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
Environmental economics.
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Sustainable development.
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Natural resources -- Management.
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Biotic communities -- Economic aspects.
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Protected areas -- Economic aspects.
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Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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LC no. |
96052255 |
ISBN |
1858984734 |
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