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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| An introduction to ecological economics | |
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| What is ecological economics? | |
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| A brief history of the environment in economics | |
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| Science and ethics | |
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| Sustainability and sustainable development | |
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| The relationship between ecological and neoclassical economics | |
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| A guided tour | |
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| Keywords | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Interdependent Systems | |
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| The environment | |
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| Planet earth | |
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| Thermodynamics | |
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| Ecosystems | |
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| Nutrient cycles | |
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| Evolution | |
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| Summary | |
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| Keywords | |
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| Doubling times with exponential growth | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Humans in the environment - some history | |
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| Human evolution | |
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| The history of human numbers | |
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| Hunter-gatherers | |
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| The transition to agriculture | |
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| The second transition | |
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| Energy and agriculture | |
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| The extent of the human impact on the biosphere | |
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| Summary | |
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| Keywords | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| The economy in the environment - a conceptual framework | |
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| The big picture | |
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| Stocks and flows | |
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| The economy | |
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| Resource extraction | |
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| Waste insertion | |
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| Implications of the laws of thermodynamics | |
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| Recycling | |
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| Amenity services | |
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| Life support services | |
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| Interactions | |
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| Threats to sustainability | |
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| Summary | |
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| Keywords | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Economic Activity | |
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| Economic accounting | |
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| Input-output accounting | |
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| National income accounting conventions | |
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| National income as the measure of economic performance | |
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| National income accounting and the environment | |
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| Summary | |
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| Keywords | |
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| Input-output algebra | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Economic growth and human well-being | |
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| The rich and the poor | |
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| Why are some countries rich and some poor? | |
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| What drives economic growth? | |
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| The desirability of economic growth | |
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| Non-economic indicators of well-being | |
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| Human needs and desires - what makes people happy? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Keywords | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Economic growth and the environment | |
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| The IPAT identity | |
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| Modelling growth and the environment | |
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| Limits to Growth? | |
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| Growth as the solution to environmental problems? | |
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| Sustainable development? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Keywords | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Exchange and markets | |
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| Exchange and specialisation | |
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| How markets work | |
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| Applications of market analysis | |
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| Lending and borrowing, saving and investing | |
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| Summary | |
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| Keywords | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Limits to markets | |
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| Markets and efficiency | |
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| Market failure and its correction | |
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| Markets and equity | |
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| Markets and the environment | |
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| Markets and sustainability | |
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| Summary | |
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| Keywords | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Websites | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Governance | |
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| Determining policy objectives | |
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| The history of the sustainable development principle | |
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| Operationalising the principle | |
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| Decision making under imperfect knowledge | |
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| The Precautionary Principle and safe minimum standards | |
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| Science and precaution | |
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| From policy principles to policy objectives | |
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| Summary | |
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| Keywords | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Environmental policy instruments | |
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| Choice of environmental policy instruments | |
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| Moral suasion | |
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| Command-and-control instruments | |
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| Creation of property rights | |
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| Taxation | |
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| Tradable permits | |
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| The least cost theorem | |
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| Environmental performance bonds | |
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| Interdependence of policy goals | |
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| Summary | |
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| Keywords | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Input-output analysis of carbon taxation | |
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| The International Dimension | |
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| A world of nation states | |
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| The case for international trade | |
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| Patterns of international trade | |
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| International trade and sustainable development | |
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| Institutions regulating international trade | |
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| Towards trade rules for sustainability | |
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| Globalisation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Keywords | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Climate change | |
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| The nature and extent of the problem | |
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| Why the problem is difficult | |
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| Mitigation targets and instruments | |
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| What is being done about the problem? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Keywords | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Biodiversity loss | |
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| The biodiversity-loss problem | |
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| Why it is a difficult problem | |
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| Conservation policy | |
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| The Convention on Biological Diversity | |
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| Summary | |
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| Keywords | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| References | |