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Ecological economics is a new transdisciplinary approach to understanding and managing the ecology and economics of the world for sustainability, on local, regional, and global scales. This volume defines the basic world-view of ecological economics, contrasting it with conventional approaches; addresses the accounting, modeling, and analysis of ecological economic systems; and explores institutional changes necessary to achieve sustainability, with case studies of ecological economics in the US, China, Brazil, and elsewhere. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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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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