Applied ecology Books

Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Dictionary brings together an extensive range of definitive terms in ecological economics. Assembling contributions from distinguished scholars, it provides an intellectual map to this evolving subject ranging from the practical to the philosophical. Following an insightful review of the intellectual and organisational origins of this topic by Joan Martínez-Alier, over 1,100 terms are thoroughly defined with their meanings and uses in ecological economics explained. In addition, most of the terms include recommendations for further reading to provide greater context and understanding, alongside citations to allow for further illustration on how a term is used in the field. Encompassing a broad overview of the field, this Dictionary will be a useful reference for students at all levels, alongside faculty and researchers. It will also be an informative resource for government and NGO professionals in environmental conservation to better understand the crucial vocabulary that governs their field.Trade Review‘The Dictionary of Ecological Economics will prove essential to living in the Anthropocene. The words we use and how we use them affect how we engage with nature and each other. Using more systemic words and giving systemic meaning to old words is essential for the survival of people and other species.’ -- Richard B. Norgaard, University of California, Berkeley, US‘In the age of Google do we really need a dictionary of anything, much less ecological economics? The answer is Yes! If you need consistent, citable definitions from an authoritative source for your next journal article or just to satisfy your curiosity, this is the place to go.’ -- Robert Costanza, University College London, UK

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Book SynopsisIn this authoritative book, leading international experts examine the use of scenario analyses and modelling in environmental assessments, highlighting their potential uses in making evidence-based decisions to address the risks and adverse impacts of rapid environmental change such as global warming and the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. In addition to theoretical and conceptual issues, contributors analyse the latest research on the applications of scenarios and models, and discuss the opportunities and challenges in using them for policy relevant research and action. Chapters include in-depth case studies from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America as well as those with a global or regional focus, providing a comprehensive review of the available tools and frameworks for conducting environmental assessments in diverse contexts. This book offers a roadmap for strengthening the science policy interface for environmental decision-making. Environmental Assessments will be crucial reading for scholars, postgraduate students, practitioners and policy makers working in ecological economics and ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem services, climate change and natural resources. It will be particularly useful for those working for international and intergovernmental agencies, national governments, businesses and NGOs looking to make informed decisions about responses to environmental change.Trade Review‘This book is an important contribution to research on environmental models, providing a comprehensive overview of the literature on building scenarios and how these can contribute in decision-making to reduce risks to planetary health and human well-being.’ -- Purnamita Dasgupta, Ecology, Economy and Society'This is an excellent collection of the latest state-of-the-art work on environmental scenario analysis and long-term modelling from within the social sciences. It provides essential conceptual, methodological and empirical insights to anyone working on understanding the long-term and complex causes and implications of environmental problems.' --Andreas Kontoleon, University of Cambridge, UK'One of the less obvious benefits of international assessments is spin-off books on topics flagged in the assessments. This book picks up on several issues identified in the IPBES methodological assessment of biodiversity scenarios and models. Aside from a very useful set of chapters on methodology, it includes a number of applications to marine, freshwater, terrestrial, and urban systems. Dr Ninan is to be congratulated for bringing together such an interesting and informative collection.' --Charles Perrings, Arizona State University, US'As we move deeper into the Anthropocene, the need deepens for assessments of the complex interactions between man and his environment. This book is a big step towards filling this gap. It provides interesting assessments on a row of important topics from seafoods to forestry, management of invasive species to climate and fisheries or municipal planning. The book draws extensively on good expertise from a range of important countries, including many in the developing world. Strongly recommended reading for everyone interested in ecosystems and global change.' --Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Anne Larigauderie Preface 1 Introduction 1 K.N. Ninan PART I THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 2 Developing national scale integrated social-ecological scenarios for Canada’s oceans and marine fisheries 37 Louise S.L. Teh, William W.L. Cheung and U. Rashid Sumaila 3 Improving estimates of the economic effects of climate change in integrated assessment models 51 Lydia F. Prieg and Dmitry Yumashev 4 Monitoring and projecting land use and land cover change at multiple spatial scales 68 Isabel M.D. Rosa PART II APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES 5 The future value of ecosystem services: global scenarios and national implications 81 Ida Kubiszewski, Robert Costanza, Sharolyn Anderson and Paul Sutton 6 Models and strategies for prioritizing the control of invasive exotic weeds in protected areas: theoretical and pragmatic challenges 109 Clement A. Tisdell, Bruce A. Auld and Stephen B. Johnson 7 Modelling the role of livestock intensification and deforestation in Brazil’s nationally determined contribution on emissions mitigation 126 Rafael De Oliveira Silva, Luis Gustavo Barioni and Dominic Moran 8 Spatial modelling and BAU scenario analysis of Cambodian forest 143 Ram Avtar, Ridhika Aggarwal and Rajesh Bahadur Thapa 9 Climate change and British Columbia’s staple seafood supply and prices 162 U. Rashid Sumaila and Vicky W.Y. Lam 10 Key socio-economic drivers for environmental change in Latin America and the Caribbean since 1960: trends, interactions and impacts 179 Ramón Pichs-Madruga 11 Ecosystem service assessment and mapping for sustainable management of wetlands in Kerala, India 200 Michael Sinclair, Andrea Ghermandi, Sheela A. Moses and Sabu Joseph 12 The Scenario Collaboratory: a framework for integrating environmental assessments and scenarios into municipal planning 215 Liliana Caughman, Noel Plemmons, Fletcher Beaudoin, Michele Crim and Vivek Shandas 13 Participatory modelling in adaptive environmental management: a case study in semi-arid northern Nicaragua 231 Federica Ravera, David Tarrasón, Klaus Hubacek, Roberto Molowny-Horas and Jan Sendzimir Index 249

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Book SynopsisToday, 55% of the world's human population lives in urban areas. By 2030, up to 90% of the global human population will live in cities and the global population is expected to increase by 68% by 2050. Although land cover categorized as "urban" is a relatively small fraction of the total surface of the Earth, urban areas are major driving forces in global environmental change, habitat loss, threats to biodiversity, and the loss of terrestrial carbon stored in vegetation biomass. These and many other factors highlight the need to understand the broad-scale impacts of urban expansion as it effects the ecological interactions between humans, wildlife and plant communities. In a series of essays by leading experts this book defines urban ecology, and provides much-needed focus on the main issues of this increasingly important subdiscipline such as the impacts of invasive species, protecting pollinators in urban environments, the green cities movement and ecological corridors. The book stresses the importance of understanding ecological forces and ecosystem services in urban areas and the integration of ecological concepts in urban planning and design. The creation of urban green spaces is critical to the future of urban areas, enhancing human social organization, human health and quality of life. Urban ecology is becoming a foundational component of many degree programs in universities worldwide and this book will be of great interest to students and researchers in ecology and conservation science, and those involved in urban planning and urban environmental management.Table of Contents1: Urban Ecology: What is it and Why? 2: How Urban Forest Composition Shapes the Structure and Function of Arthropod Communities 3: Wildlife in the City: Human Drivers and Human Consequences 4: Urban Plant Ecophysiology 5: Urban Biodiversity: Between Elsewhere-Nature and the Post-Wild World 6: Protecting Pollinators in the Urban Environment 7: Urban Ecology as an Integrative Science and Practice 8: The Ecology of Urban Climates 9: The Green Cities Movement: Progress and Future Challenges 10: Light pollution: How Urban Conditions Influence Ecological Interactions 11: Citizen Science in Urban Habitats 12: Ecology of Insects and Other Arthropods in Urban Agroecosystems 13: Future Prospects and Challenges in Urban Ecology

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Book SynopsisAn understanding of ecology is an important requirement of a wide range of academic areas, including biology, zoology and environmental science. This book is a study and revision guide for students following programmes of study in which ecology is an important component. It contains 600 multiple-choice questions (and answers) set at three levels - foundation, intermediate and advanced - and grouped into 10 major topic areas: · The history and foundations of ecology · Abiotic factors and environmental monitoring · Taxonomy and biodiversity · Energy flow and production ecology · Nutrient and material cycles · Ecophysiology · Population ecology · Community ecology and species interactions · Ecological genetics and evolution · Ecological methods and statistics The book has been produced in a convenient format so that it can be used at any time in any place. It allows the reader to learn and revise the meaning of ecological terms, the basic processes operating in ecosystems, the dynamics of populations, ecological genetics and the process of evolution, the methods used in ecological surveys, and much more. The structure of the book allows the study of one topic area at a time, progressing through simple questions to those that are more demanding. Many of the questions require students to use their knowledge to interpret information provided in the form of graphs, data or photographs, providing a useful tool for independent study.Table of Contents1: The history and foundations of ecology 2: Abiotic factors and environmental monitoring 3: Taxonomy and biodiversity 4: Energy flow and production ecology 5: Nutrient and material cycles 6: Ecophysiology 7: Population ecology 8: Community ecology and species interactions 9: Ecological genetics and evolution 10: Ecological methods and statistics 11: Answers

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses present-day landscapes, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity as legacies of the past. It implements an interdisciplinary approach to understand how natural or human-impacted ecological systems have changed over time.Historical Ecology combines theory, methods, regional case studies and syntheses to provide a complete up-to-date overview of historical ecology. Beginning with the crucial role of time and inference from observed patterns, the book critically reviews the main methodological approaches, including monitoring of permanent plots, analysis of old maps, repeat photography, remote sensing, soil analysis, charcoal analysis, botanical indicators, and combinations of these methods applied to forest ecosystems.A series of case studies from various biomes shows how historical ecology can help in understanding today’s socio-ecosystems, such as mainland and island forests, orchards, tundra and coastal dunes. The book concludes by showing how historical ecology can answer timely fundamental research questions and provide science-based evidence for landscape and ecosystem management.Table of ContentsChapter 1 A General Introduction to Historical Ecology 1Guillaume DECOCQ 1.1 The roots of historical ecology 2 1.2 A multidisciplinary approach of socio-ecosystems 3 1.3 Recent trends in historical ecology 4 1.4 The way forward 6 1.5 References 7 Chapter 2 Historical Resurveys Reveal Causes of Long-term Ecological Change 11Donald M WALLER 2.1 Serious ecological changes are pervasive 11 2.2 Anthropogenic drivers of ecological change 12 2.2.1 The missing baseline problem 12 2.2.2 Ecological communities are complex 13 2.3 Kinds of ecological change 14 2.3.1 Natural community dynamics 14 2.3.2 Anthropogenic drivers of ecological change 14 2.4 Understanding the forces driving ecological change 18 2.4.1 Natural experiments 18 2.4.2 Metrics of change 19 2.4.3 Can functional traits reveal drivers of change? 19 2.4.4 Vectors of change – ordination 20 2.5 Conclusion 22 2.6 References 22 Chapter 3 Getting the Right Answer Can Take a While: Long-term Ecological Field Studies as Historical Ecology 27Frank S GILLIAM 3.1 Introduction 27 3.2 Fernow Experimental Forest 29 3.2.1 Background 29 3.2.2 Site description 30 3.2.3 Field design 30 3.3 Long-term studies at Fernow Experimental Forest, West Virginia 32 3.3.1 Effects of acidification on soil fertility and herb layer cover and foliar nutrients 32 3.3.2 Effects of N addition on soil N dynamics 34 3.3.3 Effects of N addition on herb layer composition and diversity 35 3.3.4 The N homogeneity hypothesis 37 3.3.5 A look at the future: declines in the atmospheric deposition of N 40 3.4 Conclusion 40 3.5 References 41 Chapter 4 Gaps and Cracks in Land Cover Mapping for Historical Ecology 45Francesca Di PIETRO, Roger COLY, Clémence CHAUDRON, Samuel LETURCQ 4.1 Introduction 45 4.2 Three main steps of past land cover mapping 46 4.3 Land cover in the 19th century: the old cadasters 47 4.4 Land cover in the 20th century: aerial photographs 50 4.5 Present land cover: modern databases 52 4.6 From different sources to one land cover typology 53 4.7 Conclusion 55 4.8 References 55 Chapter 5 The Use of Repeat Photography in African Historical Ecology 57Michael Timm HOFFMAN and Rick F ROHDE 5.1 Repeat photography as an emerging tool in African historical ecology 57 5.2 Repeat photography and landscape change in Africa 58 5.2.1 Early contributions 58 5.2.2 Ethiopia 58 5.2.3 Southern Africa 59 5.3 Long-term change in plant populations as revealed by repeat photography 62 5.4 Strengths and limitations 64 5.5 Future directions 65 5.6 References 66 Chapter 6 Remote Sensing for Historical Ecology 71Pierre-Alexis HERRAULT and David SHEEREN 6.1 Introduction 71 6.2 Landscape spatio-temporal changes as a proxy of biodiversity 72 6.3 Mapping landscapes at different dates 73 6.3.1 Airborne laser scanning data 73 6.3.2 Historical maps 74 6.3.3 Old aerial photographs 75 6.3.4 Satellite images 76 6.4 Modeling the effects of spatio-temporal changes on present-day biodiversity 77 6.4.1 Structural spatio-temporal metrics 77 6.4.2 Functional spatio-temporal metrics 79 6.5 References 81 Chapter 7 Soil Archives: Where Soilscape History Meets Present-day Ecosystems 85Boris BRASSEUR, Damien ERTLEN and Vincent ROBIN 7.1 Introduction 85 7.2 Mechanisms of soil archiving and the associated dynamics 86 7.2.1 Pedoturbations of biological and physical origins 86 7.2.2 Eluviation–Illuviation 86 7.2.3 Anthropogenic factors 88 7.2.4 Effects of geomorphological processes on soil archives 88 7.3 Examples of soil archives and their influence on current ecosystems 90 7.3.1 Chemical archives, witnesses of progressive soil transformations 90 7.3.2 Physical archives: reading the soil pit profile and microtopographic features 92 7.3.3 Soil organic matter 93 7.3.4 Botanical remains 94 7.4 Conclusion 95 7.5 References 95 Chapter 8 Continuous and Nested Time in Historical Ecology: Application to Soil Studies 99Damien ERTLEN 8.1 Interdisciplinarity and time in historical ecology 99 8.2 Continuous time 100 8.3 Nested time 102 8.4 Different disciplines, different tools 103 8.5 Examples of nested and continuous time: soils and strata 105 8.6 Conclusion 107 8.7 References 108 Chapter 9 The Analysis of Relic Charcoal Kilns for the Assessment of Forest Trajectories 111Vincent ROBIN, Alexa DUFRAISSE and Claudia OLIVEIRA 9.1 Introduction 111 9.2 Looking at the platform of the kiln 112 9.2.1 Looking at the dimensions of the kiln platforms 112 9.2.2 Platform inventory 113 9.3 Looking at the charcoal pieces 115 9.3.1 Sampling 115 9.3.2 Taxonomic identification 115 9.3.3 Dendro-anthracology 117 9.4 Looking at the ages 117 9.5 Conclusion 119 9.6 References 119 Chapter 10 Ancient Trees and Botanical Indicators as Evidence for Change and Continuity in Landscape Evolution 123Ian D ROTHERHAM 10.1 Introduction 123 10.2 What is ancient woodland? Questions of woods versus old-growth forest, and of continuity versus antiquity 124 10.3 The value of ancient woods 124 10.4 Methodology 125 10.4.1 Evidencing ancient woodlands and the use of indicators 125 10.4.2 Tree form and growth as evidence of antiquity and continuity 128 10.4.3 The importance of ancient and veteran trees in woodland 129 10.4.4 Soils and sediments 130 10.5 An emerging woodland paradigm 131 10.6 A simple new conceptual framework 131 10.7 Conclusion 133 10.8 References 133 Chapter 11 Towards a Methodological Framework for Investigating the Hidden History of Woodland Covers 135Damien MARAGE, Catherine FRUCHART, Isabelle JOUFFROY-BAPICOT, Olivier GIRARDCLOS, Vincent BALLAND 11.1 Why talk about hidden history when studying forest vegetation? 135 11.2 From recent forests: a synecological point of view 136 11.3 From the walls: ancient documents and maps 136 11.4 From the wood: dendrochronology 139 11.5 From the ground: palynology 140 11.6 From the air: LiDAR 142 11.7 Discussion 143 11.8 References 146 Chapter 12 The Gate to the Forest is in its History 151Keith J KIRBY 12.1 Introduction 151 12.2 The ancient woodland idea 152 12.3 Legacies of woodland management 153 12.4 Seeing the trees, not the woods 154 12.5 Exploring the distant past 155 12.6 Trees and woods from the past to the future 157 12.7 References 158 Chapter 13 Plant Assemblages and Ecosystem Functioning, a Legacy of Long-term Interactions with Large Herbivores 163Christophe BALTZINGER and Anders MÅRELL 13.1 Introduction 163 13.2 Large herbivores are ecosystem dominant interactors 164 13.2.1 Large herbivores as ecosystem engineers 164 13.2.2 Large herbivores and plant assemblages 166 13.3 Long-term effects and methodological changes 167 13.3.1 Paleoecological records 167 13.3.2 Modern data 167 13.4 Plant–herbivore interactions over the long-term 168 13.4.1 Quaternary communities of large herbivores and associated flora 168 13.4.2 The forest in the early Holocene 169 13.5 Modern vegetation trajectories driven by large herbivores 170 13.5.1 Herbivory effects 170 13.5.2 Temporal trajectories 170 13.6 Perspectives, rewilding and ecosystem restoration 172 13.7 References 173 Chapter 14 A Historical Ecology of the Compiègne Forest (N France) 177Jérôme BURIDANT, Boris BRASSEUR, Hélène HOREN, Emilie GALLET-MORON and Guillaume DECOCQ 14.1 Introduction 177 14.2 The ancient forest: an intensively managed agricultural landscape? 178 14.3 The Medieval forest: a woodland (re)birth or a savanna-like ecosystem? 184 14.4 The contemporary forest (19th century onward): a closed-canopy multifunctional woodland 188 14.5 Conclusion 190 14.6 References 191 Chapter 15 The Chestnut Orchards in the Bolognese Apennines: A Vanishing Socio-ecological Habitat 195Giovanna PEZZI, Fabrizio FERRETTI, Alberto MALTONI, Patrik KREBS, Marco CONEDERA and Giorgio MARESI 15.1 Introduction 195 15.2 The traditional chestnut orchards 197 15.3 The chestnut groves of the Bolognese Apennines 198 15.4 A changing world: abandonment, diseases and other problems 199 15.5 The turning point of the 1980s 199 15.6 Current constraints and future perspectives 200 15.7 References 203 Chapter 16 Claudius’ Coin in the Forest – Niche Construction and Strategies by Early Colonizers of Boreal Inlands in Central Scandinavia 207Ove ERIKSSON and Karl-Johan LINDHOLM 16.1 Introduction 207 16.2 Concepts and theoretical framework 210 16.3 A historical overview of the colonization 211 16.4 A structured landscape 212 16.4.1 Constructing the environment 212 16.4.2 Managing livestock 213 16.4.3 Shielings (secondary farms) 214 16.5 Concluding remarks 216 16.6 References 217 Chapter 17 Recent History of Vegetation Changes in the Arctic 221Antoine BECKER-SCARPITTA, Bastien PARISY and Tomas ROSLIN 17.1 Introduction 221 17.2 The Arctic tundra biome 222 17.3 The Arctic historical ecological archive 222 17.3.1 Remote sensing over time 223 17.3.2 Field-based records 223 17.4 Changes over time in tundra vegetation 225 17.4.1 Changes in vegetation productivity 225 17.4.2 Changes in vegetation phenology 226 17.4.3 Changes in plant community structure, composition and diversity 227 17.5 Synthesis and perspectives 229 17.6 References 230 Chapter 18 Reconstructing the Impact of Humans on Aotearoa New Zealand’s Biodiversity 233Nicolas J RAWLENCE, Alexander J.F VERRY, Karen GREIG, Justin J MAXWELL, Lara D SHEPHERD and Richard WALTER 18.1 Introduction 233 18.2 Archaeological evidence for anthropogenic impact in New Zealand 234 18.3 Paleovegetation change in pre- and post-European contact New Zealand 237 18.4 Utilizing Aotearoa’s natural resources: Māori cultivation and translocation of flora and fauna 239 18.5 Evolutionary consequences of Polynesian and European arrival 240 18.6 Conclusion 243 18.7 References 243 Chapter 19 Historical Ecology of the Coastal Aeolian Sedimentary Systems of the Canary Islands 247Aarón Moisés SANTANA-CORDERO, Antonio Ignacio HERNÁNDEZ-CORDERO, Néstor MARRERO-RODRÍGUEZ, Leví GARCÍA-ROMERO, Elisabet FERNÁNDEZ-CABRERA, Carolina PEÑA-ALONSO, Emma PÉREZ-CHACÓN ESPINO and Luis HERNÁNDEZ-CALVENTO 19.1 Introduction 247 19.2 Study sites 248 19.3 Historical evolution of the coastal aeolian sedimentary systems of the Canary Islands 251 19.3.1 19th century: territorial consolidation and spread of the agrarian socioeconomic system 252 19.3.2 20th century to the present day: the tourism transformation 253 19.4 Conclusion 255 19.5 References 256 Chapter 20 Historical Forest Microclimates 259Emiel DE LOMBAERDE, Karen DE PAUW, Pallieter DE SMEDT, Jonathan LENOIR, Camille MEEUSSEN, Thomas VANNESTE, Kris VERHEYEN, Florian ZELLWEGER and Pieter DE FRENNE 20.1 Drivers of microclimate at the plot, forest and landscape scale 261 20.2 Methods to infer microclimate from the past and predict into the future 265 20.3 Why do historical microclimates matter? Impacts on biodiversity from the plot to landscape scale 268 20.4 Conclusion 270 20.5 References 270 Chapter 21 Causes and Consequences of Extinction Debts: Perspectives for Historical Ecology and Biological Conservation 273Grégoire BLANCHARD and François MUNOZ 21.1 Introduction 273 21.2 Causes and processes entailing extinction debts 274 21.3 Studying and detecting extinction debts from ecosystem history 276 21.4 Implications for biodiversity conservation and management 280 21.5 Conclusion 281 21.6 References 282 Chapter 22 Historical Ecology for the Past and the Future: Organizing at Local and Regional Scales 285Carole L CRUMLEY 22.1 Introduction 285 22.2 Founding IHOPE 286 22.3 Integrating the social sciences and humanities 287 22.4 Historical ecology 288 22.5 Conclusion 290 22.6 References 291 List of Authors 295 Index 301

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Book SynopsisClimate disruption, overpopulation, biodiversity loss, the threats of financial collapse, large-scale damage to our natural and social environments and eroding democracy are all becoming critically important concerns. The editors of this timely book assert that these problems are not separate, but all stem from our overreliance on an out-dated approach to economics that puts growth of production and consumption above all else. Ecological economics can help create the future that most people want - a future that is prosperous, just, equitable and sustainable. This forward-thinking book lays out an alternative approach that places the sustainable wellbeing of humans and the rest of nature as the overarching goal. Each of the book s chapters, written by a diverse collection of scholars and practitioners, outlines a research and action agenda for how this future can look and possible actions for its realization. Sustainable Wellbeing Futures will be of value to academics and students researching environmental and ecological economics, as well as individuals interested in gaining a greater understanding of the concept of a wellbeing future and how we might act to achieve it. Contributors include: M. Abrams, J. Adams, G. Alperovitz, J. Ament, D. Baker, L. Barbeiri, D. Barmes, S. Bliss, R. Boumans, K. Brevik, P. Brown, M. Burke, B.S. Caniglia, C. Carmichael, J.C. Castilla-Rho, R. Costanza, A. Damiano, T. Dietz, E.M.B. Doran, B. Dube, M. Egler, J.D. Erickson, S.C. Farber, J. Farley, L. Fioramonti, M.-J.V. Fox, K. Gallagher, T. Gladkikh, R.K. Gould, J. Gourevitch, J. Gowdy, C. Guay-Boutet, M. Hensher, R.B. Howarth, T. Jackson, X. Ji, D.C. Kenny, K. Kish, C. Koliba, J. Kolodinsky, N. Kosoy, I. Kubiszewski, M.T. Lucas, V. Luzadis, D. Markowitz, S. Marshall, J. McGlade, M. Moser, S. O'Hara, C. Orr, P. Perez, K. Pickett, S. Posner, S. Quilley, T.H. Ricketts, A.B. Schneider, D. Spethmann, R. Svartzman, S. Telle, K. Trebeck, J. Valcour, M. Venkatesan, P.A. Victor, A. Voinov, S. Wallis, R. Wilkinson, G. Yahya Haage, Y. Yoshida, E. Zencey, A. Zia Trade Review'There is no way to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals without a systemic approach to economic, environmental and social policies. This is why this is one of the most comprehensive, advanced and useful books I have ever seen to address the huge challenges humanity faces in the XXI Century. This book is a ''must'' for policy makers and analysts, for academic and applied economists and statisticians, as well as for modellers to provide innovative answers to questions coming from the unsustainability of our socio-economic systems.' --Enrico Giovannini, University of Rome ''Tor Vergata'', Italy'Ecological Economics has given us the vision of an economy in service to sustainable wellbeing for over three decades. This essential volume combines the best ideas from the leaders in the field with the thinking of young emerging scholars to set forth the research and action needed to make a finer future a reality.' --Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism Solutions, US'This book beautifully demonstrates that ecological economics, now grown beyond its teenage years, has plenty more to say about human wellbeing and sustainability than the obsolete bodies of knowledge it is replacing. By recognizing our ecological context, it becomes possible to find solutions that serve human wellbeing that can last. This book is the living proof that ecological economics has the power to guide us to a better future.' --Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint NetworkTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Jacqueline McGlade xii Preface xv In memoriam: Eric Zencey 1953–2019 xvii 1 Introduction: what is ecological economics and why do we need it now more than ever 1 Robert Costanza, Jon D. Erickson, Joshua Farley, and Ida Kubiszewski PART I THE FUTURE WE WANT 2 Creating positive futures for humanity on earth 17 Robert Costanza, Elizabeth M. B. Doran, Tatiana Gladkikh, Ida Kubiszewski, Valerie A. Luzadis, and Eric Zencey 3 Work, labour, and regenerative production 27 Kaitlin Kish and Stephen Quilley 4 The role of technology in achieving the future we want 45 Stewart Wallis, Lindsay Barbieri, Alice Damiano, and Matthew Burke 5 Ecological economics in China: from origins, to inertia, to rejuvenation 61 Xi Ji 6 Taking evolution seriously: the role of ecological economics in escaping the Anthropocene and reaching for the Ecozoic 90 Peter G. Brown and John Gowdy PART II MEASURING AND ACHIEVING WELLBEING 7 Frameworks and systems thinking for measuring and achieving sustainable wellbeing 103 Elizabeth M. B. Doran, Lindsay Barbieri, Ida Kubiszewski, Kate Pickett, Thomas Dietz, Michael Abrams, Richard Wilkinson, Robert Costanza, Stephen C. Farber, and Jeannine Valcour 8 How ecosystem services research can advance ecological economics principles 127 Rachelle K. Gould, Taylor H. Ricketts, Richard B. Howarth, Svenja Telle, Tatiana Gladkikh, Stephen Posner, Jesse Gourevitch, and Yuki Yoshida 9 Wellbeing in the more-than-human world 151 Kristian Brevik, John Adams, Benjamin Dube, Lindsay Barbieri, and Gabriel Yahya Haage 10 From measurement to application: wellbeing indicators in socio-ecological systems 167 Kati Gallagher, Michael Moser, Mairi-Jane V. Fox, and Jane Kolodinsky 11 The struggle for equality and sustainability 179 Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett 12 Human health and ecological economics 188 Martin Hensher PART III THE INSTITUTIONS WE REQUIRE 13 Cultural evolution, multi-level selection, and institutions for cooperation 210 Joshua Farley, John Gowdy, and Stephen Marshall 14 Moral and ethical foundations for ecological economics 229 Dan Spethmann and Valerie A. Luzadis 15 Governing for sustainable development: rethinking governance and ecological economics 243 Christopher Koliba, Megan Egler, and Stephen Posner 16 Money, interest rates and accumulation on a finite planet: revisiting the ‘monetary growth imperative’ through institutionalist approaches 266 Romain Svartzman, Joseph Ament, David Barmes, Jon D. Erickson, Joshua Farley, Charles Guay-Boutet, and Nicolas Kosoy 17 The nature and role of business in an ecological economy 284 Mairi-Jane V. Fox, Abigail B. Schneider, Marilyn T. Lucas, and Beth Schaefer Caniglia 18 Principles of stakeholder engagement for ecological economics 300 Madhavi Venkatesan, Jon D. Erickson, and Christine Carmichael PART IV INTEGRATED, DYNAMIC ANALYSIS AND MODELLING OF SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS 19 Integrated ecological economic modeling: what is it good for? 316 Alexey Voinov, Pascal Perez, Juan Carlos Castilla-Rho, and Daniel C. Kenny 20 Designing participatory decision support systems: towards meta-decision making analytics in the next generation of ecological economics 342 Asim Zia and Roel Boumans 21 A research agenda for ecological macroeconomics 357 Peter A. Victor and Tim Jackson PART V MAKING THE TRANSITION 22 Local economies: leading the way to an ecological economy 374 Sabine O’Hara and Daniel Baker 23 Systemic design and systemic crisis in the United States: the pluralist Commonwealth 386 Gar Alperovitz and Joseph Ament 24 Creating a Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) to motivate and facilitate the transition 399 Robert Costanza, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Ida Kubiszewski, Deborah Markowitz, Christopher Orr, Katherine Trebeck, and Stewart Wallis PART VI SURVEYS OF THE LARGER COMMUNITY ABOUT THE RESEARCH AGENDA 25 Ecological economic goals from emerging scholars 409 Kaitlin Kish and Sam Bliss 26 Assessing ecological economics at 30: results from a survey of ISEE members 427 Benjamin Dube Index 445

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Book SynopsisWith diverse contributions from over 100 authors around the globe, this comprehensive Encyclopedia summarises the developments of ecological economics from the fundamental contributions to the more recent methodological debates in the field.This Encyclopedia further reflects the relevant state of research including past and present major debates about particular concepts, theories, actors and issues at hand. It provides an expansive list of topics including sustainable development, the limits to growth, agroecology, implications of thermodynamic laws for economics, integrated ecologic-economic modelling, valuation of natural resources and services, and renewable and non-renewable resources management. With a strong normative focus, entries include theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions, as the field orientates its efforts to improve environmental policy and governance to enhance wellbeing, environmental quality, and social justice.This unique reference will be a key tool to students, scholars, policy makers and anyone else seeking to understand the link between economic systems and the environment from the perspective of ecological economics, business management, environmental and urban studies.Key Features: Entries include selected references for further study Entries by both leading scholars and up-and-coming voices Addresses the links between the ecological crisis and economic activity Over 90 entries with accessible explanations of key concepts and methods Multi-disciplinary approach across the fields of economics, ecology, sociology, geography, and also political science and history. Trade Review‘Economics for the twenty-first century? This is what this book is all about. It will become the definitive international reference. Top scholars in the field provide thoughtful summaries of key concepts in ecological economics. By doing this, they offer insights and tools on how to reconcile human development with planetary boundaries, arguably the most important challenge of our time.’ -- Federico Demaria, University of Barcelona, Spain‘This amazing volume reflects that ecological economics has become a mature transdisciplinary field, with consolidated concepts, methods and analytical frameworks. The Editors have done an impressive job in mobilizing contributors to offer stepping stones to those interested in learning how to reconcile our economy with a living planet.’ -- Roldan Muradian, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), BrazilTable of ContentsContents: Preface xvii 1 Agent-based modelling 1 Ivan Savin 2 Agroecology 8 Manuel González de Molina 3 Agrowth 14 Jeroen van den Bergh 4 Anthropocene 21 Jon D. Erickson 5 Biodiversity conservation 25 Eduardo García-Frapolli 6 Bounded openness over natural information 32 Joseph Henry Vogel, María Eugenia Santori-Aymat, Óscar Tomaiconza, Bryan Steven Cortés-Lumbi, and Miguel Fernández-Maldonado 7 Bounded rationality 40 Stefan Drews 8 Carbon taxes 43 Andrea Baranzini and Sylvain Weber 9 Circular economy 49 Ignasi Puig Ventosa and Verónica Martínez Sánchez 10 Climate change and social justice 57 Éloi Laurent 11 Coevolution (socio-biophysical coevolution) 65 Miquel A. Gual and Richard B. Norgaard 12 Common property and environmental governance 70 Sergio Villamayor-Tomás 13 Complex social-ecological systems 75 Pedro L. Lomas 14 Consumption 81 Doris Fuchs and Inge Røpke 15 Cost shifting, competition and economic structure 87 Clive L. Spash and Amelia Fuselier 16 Critical materials 94 Alicia Valero, Guiomar Calvo, and Antonio Valero 17 Degrowth 97 Sam Bliss and Giorgos Kallis 18 Deliberative ecological economics 102 Jasper Kenter 19 Discounting and climate change 111 Cédric Philibert 20 Ecofeminisms 117 Corinna Dengler 21 Ecological distribution conflicts 123 Joan Martínez-Alier 22 Ecological macroeconomics 125 Peter A. Victor 23 Ecological unequal exchange 132 Mario Pérez-Rincón 24 Economic anthropology 138 Clemens M. Grünbühel 25 Economic system 145 José Manuel Naredo 26 Economy as an open system 151 Óscar Carpintero and Jaime Nieto 27 Ecosystem services 157 Brigitte L.G. Baptiste 28 Emergy accounting 161 Silvio Viglia and Sergio Ulgiati 29 Energy return on investment: a unifying principle for socio-ecological sustainability 168 Rigo E.M. Melgar and Charles A.S. Hall 30 Energy transition(s) 179 Mar Rubio-Varas 31 Entropy 186 Alicia Valero, Antonio Valero, and Guiomar Calvo 32 Environmental accounting 189 Maddalena Ripa and Sergio Ulgiati 33 The environmental consequences of inequality 198 James K. Boyce 34 Environmental ethics 202 Joaquín Valdivielso 35 Environmental footprints 208 Kai Fang 36 Environmental governance 214 Jouni Paavola 37 Environmental input– output analysis 220 Mònica Serrano 38 Environmental justice 228 Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos 39 The environmental Kuznets curve 234 David I. Stern 40 Environmental limits 238 Erik Gómez-Baggethun 41 Environmental stewardship 243 Jennifer Welchman 42 Environmental tax reform 245 Paul Ekins 43 Environmental taxation and the double dividend 249 William K. Jaeger 44 Environmentally extended multi-region input–output analysis 255 Klaus Hubacek and Kuishuang Feng 45 Ethics of quantification 261 Andrea Saltelli and Monica Di Fiore 46 Fetish, commodity fetishism and ecosystem services 266 Nicolas Kosoy 47 Future generations 269 Richard B. Howarth 48 Georgescu-Roegen’s bioeconomics 273 Kozo Torasan Mayumi 49 Green economy 280 Jonathan M. Harris 50 Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) 285 Helmut Haberl, Karl-Heinz Erb, and Fridolin Krausmann 51 The human ecological footprint 294 William E. Rees 52 Incommensurable values 301 Jonathan Aldred 53 Industrial ecology 305 Anke Schaffartzik 54 Institutions 309 Arild Vatn 55 Joint production 315 Johannes Schiller and Stefan Baumgärtner 56 Kapp, Karl William 322 Tommaso Luzzati 57 Land grabbing 326 Arnim Scheidel 58 Land-time budget analysis 332 Clemens M. Grünbühel 59 Languages of valuation 338 Christos Zografos 60 The laws of thermodynamics 345 Gabriel A. Lozada 61 Material flow accounting 353 Fridolin Krausmann 62 The maximum power principle 359 Mark T. Brown 63 Metabolic flow 364 Mario Giampietro 64 Methodological pluralism 372 Richard B. Norgaard 65 Multi-criteria evaluation 375 Giuseppe Munda 66 Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM) 381 Mario Giampietro 67 National accounts and macroeconomic indicators 386 Jordi Roca Jusmet 68 Natural capital 390 Robert Costanza 69 Nature-based solutions 393 Francesc Baró and Erik Gómez-Baggethun 70 Nexus approaches in socio-metabolic research 399 Helmut Haberl 71 Payments for ecosystem services 406 Esteve Corbera and Santiago Izquierdo-Tort 72 Peak oil 412 Christian Kerschner 73 Political and institutional ecological economics 421 Peter Söderbaum 74 Population and environment 427 Hernán G. Villarraga 75 Post-normal science 433 Silvio Funtowicz and Jerome R. Ravetz 76 The precautionary principle 436 Andy Stirling 77 Production and economic development 443 José Manuel Naredo 78 Rebound effect and the Jevons paradox 449 Jaume Freire-González 79 Sensitivity analysis 456 Andrea Saltelli, Arnald Puy, and Samuele Lo Piano 80 Sensitivity auditing 463 Andrea Saltelli, Samuele Lo Piano, and Arnald Puy 81 Social ecological economics 468 Clive L. Spash, Adrien Guisan, and Carlotta Verita 82 Social metabolism 475 Manuel González de Molina 83 Spaceship Earth 482 Óscar Carpintero and Jaime Nieto 84 Steady-state economics 487 Herman Daly 85 Sustainability versus monetary reductionism 492 Peter Söderbaum 86 Sustainable development indicators 495 Philip Lawn 87 Uncertainty, risk and ignorance 503 Andrea Saltelli and Jerome R. Ravetz 88 Uncomfortable knowledge 505 Mario Giampietro 89 Unequal caloric exchange 510 Fander Falconí 90 Water footprint 513 Cristina Madrid-López Index 518

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Book SynopsisIn this controversial book Herman Daly, a leading commentator on the environment, offers lively criticism of existing work on ecological economics and the economics of ecology. The theme throughout the book is about changes in perspective, attitudes and policies required to avoid uneconomic growth - that is, the impoverishment that results when the environmental and social costs of growth exceed the benefits.Key issues addressed include: growth economics misunderstandings of thermodynamics economic development and population globalization money humans in the ecosystem. >This major new book will be of interest to economists, ecologists, environmentalists, public policy scholars and activists as well as social philosophers.Trade Review'This book will be essential reading for anyone who seeks answers to resolve the traditionally recognized conflicts between the economy and the environment. The answers this work proposes are not simple, but are well presented and necessary.' -- Bernardo Aguilar-Gonzalez, The Quarterly Review of Biology'Daly's book is an excellent and illustrating confrontation of the two important paradigms of scientific economics. It leaves the reader with the conviction that the still prevailing paradigm of neo-classical economics will have to be replaced if sustainability is to become a real objective of economic policy.' -- Gunther Weinschenck, Quarterly Journal of International AgricultureTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: On the Roots of Error in Growth Economics Part II: On Some Specific Errors in Growth Economics Part III: On Economists’ Misunderstanding of Thermodynamics Part IV: On Economic Development and Population Part V: On Globalization as Growth Economics’ Last Gasp Part VI: On Money Part VII: On Purpose Index

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative book presents the results of important new research into the economics of biodiversity conservation in sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors offer case studies of the economic causes of biodiversity loss in a range of ecosystem types - wetlands, montane forests, tropical moist forests, semi-arid savannas and lakes - and discuss the policy options for biodiversity conservation in each case. They also provide an in-depth analysis of the environmental consequences of policy reform at the macro- and micro- levels and offer practical recommendations for the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity.The Economics of Biodiversity Conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa will prove invaluable to scholars and policymakers working within the areas of environmental economics, environmental science and sustainable development.Table of ContentsContents: Preamble 1. The Biodiversity Convention and Biodiversity Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa Part I: The Microeconomics of Biodiversity Loss: Case Studies from Nigeria, Malawi, Kenya and Namibia 2. The Value of Biodiversity in the Hadejia-Nguru Wetlands of Northern Nigeria 3. The Loss of Biodiversity in Aquatic Ecosystems 4. Costs and Benefits of Protected Areas 5. Biodiversity Conservation and Land-Use Options in Semi-Arid Lands Part II: Macroeconomics and Biodiversity Loss: Structural Adjustment, Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss in Ghana 6. Forestry, Deforestation and Biodiversity in Ghana 7. The Structural Adjustment Programme and Deforestation in Ghana 8. Estimating the Biodiversity Effects of Structural Adjustment in Ghana 9. Policies for Biodiversity Conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa Index

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Book SynopsisWhat are the best land use combinations to meet the social and economic needs of developing nations without jeopardising the ability of natural systems to deliver their life-support functions? Based on theoretical analysis and original case study material, this book attempts to answer this question by studying the interactions between economic forces which can lead to land use changes and the subsequent loss of biodiversity. Raffaello Cervigni examines the policy options and management practices that may counteract these losses and encourage the development of sustainable land use and biodiversity conservation. Biodiversity in the Balance summarises the scientific and economic debate and highlights disagreements about the definitions of biodiversity management objectives. The author goes on to develop an original analytical treatment of the incremental cost financing mechanisms adopted by the Convention on Biological Diversity. Significantly, he undertakes a microeconomic study of land use change in a biosphere reserve in South-East Mexico. Based on an original data set, the author presents a detailed modelling exercise of resource and land use choices at the individual farm level with related projections of the impact at both community and regional levels. Techniques used include multi-period linear programming and dynamic stock-flow simulation. The book concludes by addressing policy implications and options for future research. This book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers and professionals in a variety of disciplines including economics, natural resource studies, social studies, geography and land planning. The book will also be of value to the large environmental NGO community.Trade Review'Recognising that international policymakers are increasingly shifting away from the approach to biodiversity conservation that seeks to protect large, relatively undisturbed ecosystems, Raffaello Cervigni offers us a way to think about land use change and biodiversity loss in managed ecosystems. His very constructive and practical contribution to the economics of biodiversity loss is a step forward from the obsession with species preservation in biodiversity hotspots. It is well worth reading.' -- Charles Perrings, University of York, UK'No-one combines the practical experience with analytical expertise in biodiversity conservation better than Raffaello Cervigni. He has worked at so many levels on this problem - local, national, and global. This volume demonstrates the manner in which real world experience can inform the better understanding of biodiversity problem solving. I consider it essential reading for all academics and policymakers interested in the economic nature of the solution to this problem.' -- Timothy M. Swanson, University College London, UK'The book proposes an original analysis of key aspects of the biodiversity debate and puts the major Mexican case study in context. It deals with some issues that have not been treated well analytically in the general literature, including incremental cost, land use gradients etc. The end result is that the story is a complex one, but we should not be too surprised that complex issues don't have simple answers. There are very few studies that are so thorough or well researched, so it is going to repay careful reading.' -- David Pearce, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Biodiversity Conservation and Loss: The Background Part II: Theoretical Issues 2. Land Use Change, Biodiversity Loss, and Economic Analysis 3. Financing Conservation: Theoretical Aspects Part III: Biodiversity Loss and Conservation in Practice: A Case Study in Mexico 4. The Area: Sierra de Santa Marta, Veracruz, Mexico 5. The Process of Land Use Change: Modelling Farm Behaviour 6. Land Use Changes: Model Predictions and Policy Design References Index

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Book SynopsisBiological invasions - the introduction of living organisms beyond their original range - are one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss. They are a major threat to human health and a source of pests and pathogens in the world's farms, forests and fisheries.The growth of international trade and travel means that more species are being introduced to more places than ever before. This book represents the first concerted effort to understand the economic causes and consequences of biological invasions. The volume discusses the theoretical and methodological issues raised by invasion, including control strategies, modelling options, and a study of the economic, institutional and policy conditions that predispose countries to biological invasions. Also included are case studies of fisheries, agricultural systems, tropical forests and protected areas affected by invasive species in locations such as the Black Sea, Australia and Africa, and an evaluation of control programmes.The Economics of Biological Invasions provides an important first step towards codification of the advice needed to develop decision rules, tools and protocols for the effective management of invasive biological species.This volume will be a fascinating read for researchers, academics and students in ecology, economics and environmental science with an interest in the biodiversity problem. The book will also prove to be essential reading for policymakers responsible for health, agriculture, forestry, fisheries and the environment in both developed and developing countries.Trade Review'. . . anyone interested in biological invasions will learn from this book, and many readers may be inspired to further consideration of economic aspects of invasions.' -- Daniel Simberloff, Biodiversity and Conservation'An interesting book catering perhaps for a more specific audience. It does however provide a somewhat new view of the problems of the field of biological invasions and is worth the effort.' -- Ann Sundqvist, M2 Best Books'Once again, Charles Perrings and colleagues have broken new ground by applying economic and ecological analysis to the very real problem of biological invasions. This is path-breaking work in what promises to be a new sub-discipline within environmental economics.' -- David Pearce, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction Part I: Analysis 2. Economic Factors Affecting Vulnerability to Biological Invasions 3. Infectious Diseases as Invasives in Human Populations 4. Risk Reduction Strategies Against the ‘Explosive Invader’ 5. The Economics of an Invading Species 6. Weed Invasions of Australian Farming Systems Part II: Case Studies 7. An Introduced Disease in an Invasive Host 8. Invasive Species in Tropical Rain Forests 9. Economic Consequences of Alien Infestation of the Cape Floral Kingdom’s Fynbos Vegetation 10. The Impact of Invasive Species in African Lakes 11. Economic Evaluation in Classical Biological Control Part III: Conclusions 12. Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisIndustrial ecology is coming of age and this superb book brings together leading scholars to present a state-of-the-art overviews of the subject.Each part of the book comprehensively covers the following issues in a systematic style: the goals and achievements of industrial ecology and the history of the field methodology, covering the main approaches to analysis and assessment economics and industrial ecology industrial ecology at the national/regional leve industrial ecology at the sectoral/materials level applications and policy implications. The authors are all experts at the cutting edge of the field and the bibliography alone will prove useful as a comprehensive guide to the literature. This outstanding handbook will be an indispensable reference for students and scholars working in environmental management, industrial ecology and environmental and ecological studies.Trade Review'This book is, without a doubt, a seminal work on industrial ecology and has drawn together some of the best thinkers on the topic to share their views and experiences.' -- Eagle Bulletin'. . . academics, researchers, and practitioners with an interest in the subject will find this book useful as a "one-stop shop" for information relating to industrial ecology. . . it is certain that it will take pride of place on my bookshelf, among the other books relating to industrial ecology, and will be consulted regularly whenever I need to find information, a fact, reference, or whatever relating to industrial ecology.' -- Colin G. Francis, Journal of Industrial Ecology'The editors of this handbook have brought together 58 of the world's greatest environmental systems experts. These professionals have, in 46 specific topic headings, divided into six major sections, provided very insightful information and guidance as to what industrial ecology entails, how it can be implemented, and its benefits . . . a very valuable tool . . . This book provides essential information to mid- and top-level management that can enable industry to make more prudent business decisions regarding the manufacturing of its products.' -- Robert John Klancko, Environmental PracticeTable of ContentsPart 1 Context and history: industrial ecology - goals and definitions, Reid Lifset and Thomas E. Graedel; exploring the history of industrial metabolism, Marina Fischer-Kowalski; the recent history of industrial ecology, Suren Erkman; industrial ecology and cleaner production, Tim Jackson; on industrial ecosystems, Robert U. Ayres; industrial ecology - governance, laws and regulations, Braden R. Allenby; industrial ecology and industrial metabolism - use and misuse of metaphors, Allan Johansson. Part 2 Methodology: material flow analysis, Stefan Bringezu and Yuichi Moriguchi; substance flow analysis (SFA) methodology, Ester van der Voet; physical input-output accounting, Gunter Strassert; process analysis approach to industrial ecology, Urmila Diwekar and Mitchell Small; industrial ecology and life cycle assessment, Helias A. Udo de Haes; impact evaluation in industrial ecology, Bengt Steen. Part 3 Economics and industrial ecology: environmental accounting and material flow analysis, Peter Bartelmus; materials flow analysis (MFA) and economic modelling, Karin Ibenholt; exergy flows in the economy -efficiency and dematerialization, Robert U. Ayres; transmaterialization, Walter C. Labys; dematerialization and rematerialization as two recurring phenomena of industrial ecology, Sabder De Bruyn; optimal resource extraction, Matthias Ruth; industrial ecology and technology policy - Japanese experience, Chihiro Watanabe. Part 4 Industrial ecology at the national/regional level: global biogeochemical cycles, Vaclav Smil; material flow accounts - the United States and the world, Donald G. Rogich and Grecia R. Matos; industrial ecology -analyses for sustainable resource and materials management in Germany and Europe, Stefan Bringezu; material flow analysis and industrial ecology studies in Japan, Yuichi Moriguchi; industrial ecology - an Australian case study, Andria Durney; industrial ecology - United Kingdom, Heinz Schandl and Niels Schulz; industrial symbiosis - the legacy of Kalundborg, John R. Ehrenfeld and Marian R. Chertow. Part 5 Industrial ecology at the sectoral/materials level: material flows due to mining and urbanization, Ian Douglas and Nigel Lawson; long term world metal use - application of industrial ecology in a system-dynamics model, Detlef P. van Vuuren et al; risks of metal flows and accumulation, Jeroen B. Guinee and Ester van der Voet; material constraints on technology evolution - the case of scarce metals and emerging energy technologies, Bjorn A. Andersson and Ingrid Rade; wastes as raw materials, David T. Allen; heavy metals in agrosystems, Simon W. Moolenaar; industrial ecology and automotive systems, Thomas E. Graedel et al; the information industry, Brande R. Allenby. Part 6 Applications and policy implications: industrial ecology and green design, Chris T. Hendrickson et al; industrial ecology and risk analysis, Paul R. Kleindorfer; industrial ecology and spatial planning, Clinton J. Andrews; industrial estates as model eco

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Book SynopsisThis important text develops an institutional response to the core issues raised in public policy making and develops a distinct understanding of the role of institutions, not least in the study of environmental problems. It questions: how are conflicting interests shaped and taken into account in policy making? How should they be accounted for? What motivates the behaviour of firms and individuals, and how is it possible to change these motivations to produce the favoured common outcomes?The author addresses these questions by integrating elements from classical institutional economics, neoclassical economics, sociology and ecological economics. He argues that public policy in general, and environmental policy in particular, are best examined from an institutional perspective. In this way the author presents a distinct and consistent alternative to standard neoclassical economics for students and scholars who are interested in an institutional understanding of environmental policy making. The book is written in a clear and accessible style with boxes and figures to help explain the issues and, as such, would be an ideal alternative or supplement to the standard environmental economics texts.Trade Review'Vatn has prepared a vast feast for his readers. Hopefully, this book will become one of the core textbooks both in institutional economics and in resource economics. As a political scientist, I can recommend it to social scientists more generally. I must confess, I enjoyed it all.' -- Elinor Ostrom, 2009 Nobel Laureate, Land Economics'Institutions and the Environment indeed serves as a first-rate starting point for students and researchers regardless of whether they are mainly interested in institutions in general or environmental governance and ecological economics in particular.' -- Charlotta Soderberg, Environmental Politics -- Jack Reardon, Journal of Economic Issues'Vatn's book addresses the urgent question of environmental policy and shows that an understanding of the role of institutions is vital in this area. It incorporates insights on institutions from both mainstream and heterodox traditions of thought. Magisterial and comprehensive, it is both a textbook and an inspiring, pioneering monograph.' -- Geoffrey M. Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Institutions: The Web of Human Life Part I: Understanding Institutions 2. Institutions: The Individual and the Society 3. Institutions: Coordination and Conflict 4. Institutional Economics: Different Positions Part II: From Institutions to Action 5. Rationality 6. Preferences and Values Part III: From Action to Institutions 7. Explaining Institutional Change 8. Evaluating Institutional Change: The Normative Aspect of Institutions Part IV: Institutions, Environment and Policy 9. The Environment 10. Resource Regimes 11. Valuing the Environment 12. Comparing Value Articulating Institutions 13. Policy and Policy Measures 14. Policies for a Sustainable Future References Index

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Book SynopsisTropical islands are fragile, vulnerable environments and yet they are coming under increasing strain due to coastal developments and global environmental change. As a result of their remote location, small size and limited natural resource endowments, tourism has become an important economic activity, leading to emerging conflicts between the interests of developers, tourists and residents.Whilst much has been written about tourism-related development in tropical islands from a socio-cultural and economic point of view, the political ecology of environmental change has received surprisingly little attention. Political ecology is a powerful tool with which to investigate the role and interests of different actors in the process of environmental change, and this highly original volume represents a first ever study of tourism and tropical island development employing this novel but effective approach. Central to the argument is the belief that environmental problems cannot properly be understood without considering their economic and political context. The political ecology focus allows the authors to compare a wide range of tropical islands and to identify more sustainable development paths. They are also able to analyse the role of the various actors involved in the tourism development versus environmental change debate such as the state, international organizations, the tourism industry, local communities and non-governmental organizations.The continued growth of tourism will undoubtedly cause greater environmental problems. This book makes a major contribution toward understanding and solving these conflicts, particularly in those islands where the problems are most pressing. It will be required reading for students, researchers and academics of tourism, service management, geography, environmental studies, human ecology and economic development.Trade Review'. . . the book deserves to be widely read. The book offers something for everybody from practitioner to undergraduate student to "serious" academic. I aim to encourage particularly the latter to read the book, if only for the truly exceptional contributions by Gossling and Patterson and Rodriguez.' -- Daniela Schilcher, Journal of Sustainable Tourism'Gossling's volume is a welcome contribution to island literature and the broader body of work on tourism. This book is recommended for both personal and institutional libraries of governments, academics, and practitioners concerned with tourism development in island environments.' -- Lee Jolliffe, Annals of Tourism Research'The Tropics. Islands. Tourism. These are the troika of landscapes and processes which have perhaps been most heavily hyped and themed by contemporary discourse as segregated sites of (con)sensual pleasure. Such narratives camouflage the nature of these pseudo-ideal sites as contested spaces; and alienate publics from a critical discussion of the ever-central relationship between land, profit and power. Tourism and Development in Tropical Islands adopts a challenging 'political ecology' approach to expose and trace the history of these 'warm water' island narratives and how they manufacture very particular and partial images of nature, society and development. It unabashedly asks Who Gains? Who Loses? from a particular tourism policy, plan, project and/or 'product'. The book proposes to replace unidirectional discourse with bidirectional dialogue as the vehicle for sustainable development. It is a useful and timely addition to the burgeoning literature on 'island studies', inviting readers to consider a clutch of insightful case studies - or 'Tales of Conflict' - along with a penetrating analytical synthesis.' -- Godfrey Baldacchino, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada'This is a welcome addition to the literature on island tourism. It is the first sustained cross-national attempt to apply the political ecology perspective across a global sample of inter-tropical coastal settings. This conceptual framework focuses on the interaction between various tourism stakeholders - national and international, public and private - to explain the process of environmental change in island resort areas. The volume contains an unusual diversity of case studies, rich and informative in their own right. It will provide valuable reading for both tourism academics and professionals and spawn further research along the same lines.' -- Jerome L. McElroy, Saint Mary's College, Indiana, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Tourism and Development in Tropical Islands: Political Ecology Perspectives 2. The Political Ecology of Tourism in the Cayman Islands 3. The Political Ecology of Tourism in the Commonwealth of Dominica 4. Tourism Policy and Planning in St Lucia 5. The Political Ecology of Marine Protected Areas: The Case of the Bay Islands 6. Native Tourism, Natural Forests and Local Incomes on Ilha Grande, Brazil 7. The Political Ecology of Tourism in Zanzibar 8. ‘High-value Conservation Tourism’: Integrated Tourism Development in the Seychelles? 9. Human Resources Development for Tourism in a Peripherial Island: Hainan, China 10. Community-oriented Marine Tourism in the Philippines: Role in Economic Development and Conservation 11. Tourism Development and the Coastal Environment on Bintan Island Index

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Book SynopsisTechnological change plays a crucial role in realizing energy efficiency improvements and, therefore, in ameliorating the conflict between economic growth and environmental quality. However, the diffusion of new technologies can prove a costly and lengthy process, meaning that many firms do not invest in best-practice technologies. The author offers important new explanations for this energy-efficiency paradox. This volume contributes to a better understanding of the interplay between economic growth, energy use and technological change, with particular emphasis on the adoption and diffusion of energy-saving technologies. In the theoretical section, the author examines how several characteristics of technological change and environmental policy affect the dynamics of technology choice. He demonstrates how technological complementarity, learning processes and uncertainty can help explain why the innovation and diffusion of new technologies is such a protracted and complex procedure. The empirical section explores long-run trends in energy and labour productivity performance, as well as patterns of substitutability and technological change across a range of OECD countries. The book concludes by integrating the results in an applied policy model of economy-energy interaction. This book is unique in applying insights from different perspectives to the field of energy economics, and by focusing on the diffusion of energy-saving technologies rather than their innovation. It will be of immense value to academics and policymakers with an interest in energy economics, environmental economics and the interaction between economic growth and natural resources.Trade Review'This book is a path-breaking work. It is unique in the economic growth literature for its incorporation of diffusion theory into an economic growth model. In constructing the model, the author has drawn on both neo-classical and evolutionary growth theory. He uses the model to address the energy-efficiency paradox - why are efficient energy technologies often adopted so slowly? A significant, and counterintuitive, finding is that subsidies designed to speed-up the adoption of energy saving technologies in the short run may have an adverse effect in the longer run, due to the premature adoption of inferior technologies. Therefore, an important policy implication is that increased subsidies for energy saving technologies can be counterproductive.' -- Vernon W. Ruttan, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, US'Energy and environmental policy discussions increasingly focus on issues related to technological change. In this new book, Peter Mulder recognizes that technological change will play an absolutely central role in achieving increases in energy efficiency, thereby mitigating what might otherwise be unacceptable trade-offs between economic growth and environmental quality. He focuses on the role of uncertainty, which is central to investment, in order to investigate how microeconomic decisions give rise to macroeconomic patterns. In a broad-ranging study, he builds upon key developments in the economic theory of technological change to develop his theoretical model and empirical analysis.' -- Robert N. Stavins, Harvard University, USTable of ContentsContents: Part I: Introduction 1. Technological Change, Economic Growth and Energy Use 2. Economic Theory of Growth and Technological Change: A Neoclassical Versus an Evolutionary Perspective Part II: Theoretical Models 3. Explaining Slow Diffusion of Energy-Saving Technologies: Returns-to-Diversity and Learning-by-Using in a Vintage Model 4. Subsidizing the Adoption of Energy-Saving Technologies Part III: Empirical Analyses 5. International Comparisons of Sectoral Energy and Labour Productivity: Stylized Facts and Decomposition of Trends 6. Sectoral Energy and Labour Productivity Convergence Part IV: Policy Analyses and Conclusions 7. Dynamics of Technology Diffusion in an Applied Energy–Economic Model for the Netherlands 8. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisFollowing a comprehensive overview by the editors, this volume's expert contributors provide detailed discussion of important legal, ecological and social issues associated with coastal resource management, as well as the most significant challenges confronting land use planners and resource managers in coastal communities. Using an interdisciplinary approach to perplexing questions surrounding the issue of development versus protection, the volume presents a broad approach to coastal issues involving private rights and public trust.Part I: The Law and Coastal Environments provides background information on the more recent federal and state lawsuits, statutes and regulations that impact coastal environments. In Part II: Ecological Consequences for Coastal Development, scientists discuss threats posed by elevated nitrogen levels and heavy metal contamination in coastal waters, followed by descriptions of the impact of development on habitats essential to estuarine-dependent fish and migratory shorebirds. In Part III: Private Use, Public Trust and Coastal Protection the authors explore ways to balance private use of the coast with public rights of access and preservation. They discuss the concept of stewardship by both public and private landowners, factors affecting environmental values in coastal communities, and facilitation of enlightened public policies for growth management and resource protection. Appropriate for courses pertaining to coastal ecology, coastal management or land-use planning, this book will also appeal to a diverse audience of economists, concerned citizens, environmental lawyers and policymakers.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. America's Changing Coasts: An Overview 2. Coastal Values and a Sense of Place Part I: The Law and Coastal Environments 3. Regulating Versus Buying the Coast 4. Does Shoreline Armoring Violate the Clean Water Act? Rolling Easements, Shoreline Planning and Other Responses to Sea Level Rise 5. Just Who is Taking Whom? The Reciprocity Concept and the Palazzolo Case 6. Regulatory Takings Post-Palazzolo: Applying Supreme Court Jurisprudence from the Practical Perspective Part II: Ecological Consequences for Coastal Development 7. Too Many Neighbours! Nitrogen in the Coastal Zone 8. Once Spilled, Still Found: Metal Contamination in Connecticut Coastal Wetlands and Long Island Sound Sediment from Historic Industries 9. The Essentials on Estuarine Fish Habitat, its Evaluation and Protection by Federal Fisheries Law 10. Strategic Coastal Bird Migration Staging Sites: An International Conservation Challenge Part III: Private Use, Public Trust and Coastal Protection 11. Public Access to the Shore: Public Rights and Private Property 12. Ionian Enchantment by the Sea: A Stewardship System for Long Island Sound 13. Changing Community Preferences for Coastal Zone Development and Conservation: Implications of Population Growth for Natural Resource Values 14. A Policy Simulation Laboratory for Economic Science and Policy Analysis Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first attempt to systematically introduce the aspect of time into economic and environmental innovation policy. The authors demonstrate how 'windows of opportunity' for technological innovations emerge and also explain how they can be identified and effectively exploited. Technological innovations are widely considered as an opportunity to realise a double dividend - protect the environment and increase profits by introducing a more sustainable technology. However, intervention by the state is often needed to overcome the competitive disadvantage caused by externalities, path dependency and lock-in. The authors provide extensive evidence that this resistance to technological change is subject to substantial temporal variation. They argue that it is economically and politically sensible to identify periods of time in which resistance is weakest and to exploit these 'windows of opportunity' whenever and wherever they occur. They also highlight how time strategies for innovation policy can involve the preparation and creation of 'windows' which do not yet exist. Throughout the book, they use an array of varied and interesting case studies to confirm and illustrate their theoretical findings. These address issues such as CFC phase-out, the lean-burn engine versus the catalytic converter, ecological alternatives to chemical pesticides and the zero emission vehicle mandate in California. By exploring the relationship between time strategies and technological change, this book will undoubtedly lead to a more efficient and sustainable innovation policy. It will be required reading for academics, researchers and policymakers working in the fields of environmental innovation, sustainability, technology policy and political science.Trade Review‘Time Strategies, Innovation and Environmental Policy is a straightforward book presenting an articulate view of the social institutions' behaviour toward environmental problems. The theoretical perspective is clearly articulated and the case studies well described. While is should be considered a very technical book, it may be suggested as an interesting read for economists interested in evolutionary economics, but also for political scientists looking for an innovative view of economic relations and the socio-political sphere.' -- Chiara Certoma, Environmental Politics'I found this book interesting and enlightening; not only because it is refreshing change to traditional environmental economic literature but also because it is a very different approach to the diffusion of innovation frameworks that I have used in my own business-based research. . . This book should appeal to students of history, policymakers and environmental entrepreneurs. Given the major environmental decisions that are needed to counter climate change, this book provides valuable insights into factors affecting the possible acceptance or rejection of proposed policy changes. . . I found this book interesting and compelling reading. . . I liked the framework developed in this book as it covers many of the practical and common sense aspects of innovation successes.' -- Don Kerr, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management'The book is worthwhile reading for anyone interested in the history of technological competition that involves new environmentally improved technologies, as well as for students of environmental economics or innovation studies in general. The study provides accurate case studies of environmental problems and technology solutions, their success and failure.' -- Maider Saint-Jean, The Electronic Jounal of Evolutionary Modeling and Economic Dynamics'Timeliness is a particularly relevant issue in the field of innovation and diffusion research. This book originates from the observation that innovations are time critical and asks the question: when and how do windows of opportunity for new environmental technologies emerge and why do they disappear again? By analysing these windows of opportunity and possible time strategies for innovation policies, this book represents a highly topical contribution to a front line issue in environmental and innovation research. The theoretical framework is applied to well-investigated and highly informative case studies to produce an interesting, insightful and coherent volume.' -- Joseph Huber, Martin-Luther-University, Halle, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Conceptual Framework 3. Phase-out of CFCs and the Protection of the Ozone Layer 4. Mercury-based Chlor-Alkali Electrolysis – Retro-fitting and Phase-out as Strategic Alternatives 5. Policy, Time and Technological Competition: Lean-Burn Engine versus Catalytic Converter in Japan and Europe 6. Crystalline and Thin-Film Photovoltaic Cells – Competition or Lock-in? 7. LUBILOSA – An Ecological Alternative to Chemical Pesticides 8. Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate in California: Misguided Policy or Example of Enlightened Leadership? 9. Stationary Fuel Cells and the Decentralised Cogeneration of Power and Heat 10. The Influence of (Un)Certainty on the Effectiveness of Political Regulation – The Case of EDTA 11. Combined-Cycle Gas Turbines – Between Climate Protection and Other Policy Objectives 12. Technological Competition, Time and Time Windows – The Case of Iron and Steel Production Technologies 13. Techno-Political Competition and Lock-in: The Case of Nuclear Power Technologies 14. VHS versus Beta – The Case of VHS as a De Facto Standard in Video Recording 15. Conclusions – A Time-Strategic Ecological Innovation Policy Index

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Book SynopsisRutger Hoekstra examines the complex relationship between the monetary economy and the materials flows that are extracted and emitted by economic activities. These physical flows are responsible for many important environmental problems such as unsustainable resource depletion, waste production and climate change. This book discusses, applies and improves upon techniques which link the monetary and physical economies for environmental analyses. The book uses two sources of analysis: the physical input-output table (PIOT), a macro-economic account for the physical economy, recording material and product flows, including resource extraction, emissions and recycling; and structural decomposition analysis (SDA), which assesses the influence of structural changes, such as economic growth, consumption shifts, export growth and technological change, on environmental indicators. Methodological improvements in the PIOT and SDA systems are then presented by the author, and applied to empirical data. Ecological and industrial economists, along with those with an interest in environmental problems associated with the economy will find this book, with its extensive historical analysis and novel fore- and back-casting models, to be a fascinating read.Trade Review'This volume provides a valuable introduction to hybrid I-O analysis and therefore should be useful to the growing number of researchers working with these techniques.' -- Timothy J. Considine, Journal of Industrial Ecology'This is a first-rate piece of work. . . Dr Hoekstra's book is the most comprehensive assessment of economic decomposition analysis to date. The author has clarified some confusions, filled in some important gaps in the literature and extended the methods both conceptually and empirically. He has done a most thorough job of constructing hybrid input-output tables and applied them to the important issue of trends in material production use. His use of SDA for forecasting and backcasting of trends and policy making is also very impressive.' -- Adam Rose, Pennsylvania State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Input–Output Tables and Models 3. Constructing Input–Output Tables: Theory 4. Physical Input–Output Tables 5. Hybrid Input–Output Tables for Iron and Steel and Plastics 6. Environmental Structural Decomposition Analysis 7. Comparing Structural and Index Decomposition Analysis 8. Structural Decomposition Analysis of Iron and Steel and Plastics 9. Forecasting and Backcasting Scenarios 10. Summary and Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisThe conventional utility-based approach to microeconomics is now nearly a century old and although frequently criticised, it has yet to be replaced. On the Reappraisal of Microeconomics offers an alternative approach that overcomes most of the objections to orthodox theory, whilst offering some unique additional advantages.The authors present a new approach to non-equilibrium microeconomics that applies equally to production, trade and consumption, and that is also consistent with the laws of thermodynamics. This new theory is not limited to equilibrium or near-equilibrium conditions. The core of the theory is proof that, for each agent (firm or individual), there exists an unique function of goods and money (denoted Z) that can be interpreted as subjective wealth for an individual or the owners of a firm. Exchanges may occur only when both parties enjoy an increase in subjective wealth as a consequence. On average, this Z-function will increase over time if, and only if, the agent obeys a simple decision rule in all economic transactions: namely to 'avoid avoidable losses', or AAL, it being understood that some losses are unavoidable. Dynamic equations describing growth (or decline) can be derived simply by calculating time derivatives of a wealth function, without the need for constrained maximization of an integral of utility (or some surrogate) BM_1_over time. The Z-function also has a number of other interesting properties that can be used for multi-agent and multi-sectoral simulation models to explore a variety of economic situations that cannot be addressed so easily using conventional methods.This is a stimulating, provocative and highly original book that will appeal to informed academics, researchers and other professionals with an interest in the fundamentals of neoclassical economics and its applications to business, finance, growth and the environment.Trade Review'This book seeks to reformulate traditional neoclassical microeconomic theory into a new paradigm that integrates an alternative rationality postulate, expectations, resource stocks, disequilibrium, dynamics, and endogenous technological change. This is a noble pursuit, since mainstream micro theory has not done a good job of addressing most of these considerations individually, let alone as a group. The book is a significant contribution to the literature and could even become a "breakthrough" work.' -- Adam Rose, Pennsylvania State University, US'This is an excellent book. It will be a welcome addition to the growing body of work expanding the field of economic theory. The future of economics lies in work like this developing a kind of economics consistent with real human behaviour and biophysical reality.' -- John M. Gowdy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Models of Human Behavior 2. Micro-Foundations of Economics 3. Economic Agents, Actions and Wealth 4. The Z-Function 5. Decision-Making Strategies 6. Dynamics 7. From Agent to Aggregation 8. The Drivers of Long-Term Growth: Knowledge, Technological Change and Radical Innovation Appendix A: Money and Credit Appendix B: Balance Equations; Accounting Relationships Appendix C: Explicit Representations of Value and Wealth Functions and Supply–Demand Curves Appendix D: Properties of the Matrix References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a detailed picture of the evolutionary processes at work in water markets with a particular focus on theory and practice in Australia. Policymakers are striving to strike a balance between the pros and cons of a property rights/market based approach to the allocation of water resources, as opposed to an approach that centres on government regulation. The current movement in Australia is toward the use of markets, and numerous reforms are either underway or under consideration in that direction. This provides an ideal opportunity to observe the factors at play in determining the balance and hence the mix of policy instruments at work. The distinguished contributors offer a range of perspectives - economic, legal, environmental - and combine conceptual analysis with evidence from real policy decisions.Policymakers and governmental advisers will find this book timely and extremely relevant to making decisions on what is arguably the world's most critical natural resource. The Evolution of Markets for Water will also be of great interest to academics and students with an interest in natural resource economics, law and management.Table of ContentsContents: Preface by Alan Moran 1. Markets and Government – An Evolving Balance 2. Principles and Issues for Effective Australian Water Markets 3. The Historical Variation in Water Rights 4. State Administration versus Private Innovation: The Evolution of Property Rights to Water in Victoria, Australia 5. A Property Framework for Water Markets: The Role of Law 6. Registration of Water Titles: Key Issues in Developing Systems to Underpin Market Development 7. Accounting for Water Flows: Are Entitlements to Water Complete and Defensible and Does this Matter? 8. Potential Efficiency Gains from Water Trading in Queensland 9. Water Trading Instruments in Australia: Some Thoughts on Future Development of Australian Water Markets 10. Realising Environmental Demands in Water Markets Index

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Book SynopsisInositol phosphates are a group of organic compounds found widely in the natural environment. They are important in agriculture because they constitute most of the phosphorus in grain seeds, but they cannot be digested by some animals. As a result, considerable research has been directed towards improving the digestibility of inositol phosphates in animal diets. Inositol phosphates are also abundant in soils and water bodies, yet a clear understanding of their behaviour in the environment remains elusive. This is surprising given the importance of phosphorus in the nutrition of both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Written by leading experts, this book brings together critical reviews on inositol phosphates in agriculture, ecology, and the environment. The sixteen chapters cover a diverse range of topics, including the synthesis and hydrolysis of inositol phosphates, their role in animal nutrition, and their fate in soils and aquatic ecosystems. It will prove valuable to a wide readership in the agricultural and biological sciences, and will serve as a unique reference source on this emerging topic.Table of Contents1: Nomenclature and Terminology of Inositol Phosphates: Clarification and a Glossary of Terms 2: Identification of Inositol Phosphates by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Unravelling Structural Diversity 3: High-performance Chromatographic Separations of Inositol Phosphates and Their Detection by Mass Spectrometry 4: Origins and Biochemical Transformations of Inositol Stereoisomers and Their Phosphorylated Derivatives in Soil 5: Isolation and Assessment of Microorganisms That Utilize Phytate 6: Phytate-degrading Enzymes: Regulation of Synthesis in Microorganisms and Plants 7: Phytases: Attributes, Catalytic Mechanisms and Applications 8: Seed Phosphorus and the Development of Low-phytate Crops 9: Phytase and Inositol Phosphates in Animal Nutrition: Dietary Manipulation and Phosphorus Excretion by Animals 10: Environmental Implications of Inositol Phosphates in Animal Manures 11: Ligand Effects on Inositol Phosphate Solubility and Bioavailability in Animal Manures 12: Inositol Phosphates in Soil: Amounts, Forms and Significance of the Phosphorylated Inositol Stereoisomers 13: Abiotic Reactions of Inositol Phosphates in Soil 14: Interactions Between Phytases and Soil Constituents: Implications for the Hydrolysis of Inositol Phosphates 15: Plant Utilization of Inositol Phosphates 16: Inositol Phosphates in Aquatic Systems

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Book SynopsisThe planet's most fascinating and yet tantalisingly under-researched component is now a rapidly growing tourism frontier. The sea attracts millions of tourists annually with its diverse array of exclusive activities, but its sheer size brings with it considerable problems for management. Within the context of other economic activities that may compromise the success, if not the very existence of marine ecotourism, this text examines the wide range of marine ecotourism resources, not only natural, but also cultural and man-made. Covering economic, marketing planning and regulation issues, this book also considers the vital role of marine ecotourism in raising awareness of the significance of the seas and oceans to sustainable coastal livelihoods. At a time of great concern over the effects of climate change and high profile issues such as depletion of fish stocks and oil spillages, the insights this book provides are essential reading.Table of ContentsChapter 1: INTRODUCTION SECTION I: PATTERNS AND PROCESSES Chapter 2: Marine Ecotourism in Context Chapter 3: Marine Ecotourism Resources Chapter 4: Marine Ecotourism Attractions and Activities SECTION II: PRIMARY STAKEHOLDERS AND INTERESTS Chapter 5: Coastal Communities Chapter 6: Marine Ecotourists Chapter 7: Marine Nature Chapter 8: The Marine Ecotourism Industry SECTION III: REGULATION, FACILITATION AND COLLABORATION Chapter 9: Planning Agencies Chapter 10: Institutional Structures Chapter 11: Networks and Initiatives Chapter 12: CONCLUSION

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Book SynopsisOver the past two decades, significant investment has been made into agriculture-related natural resource management research in developing countries. With investors beginning to request the impact of their investments in this research, a review was needed on the economic, social and environmental effects of these projects. Stemming from an effort to address these concerns, this collection of case studies establishes a methodological foundation for impact assessments of NRMR through a discussion of research conducted by the CGIAR around the world. Both micro and macro projects are examined to consider the results of these agricultural and development programs at the farm level as well as on a regional scale.Table of Contents1: Why Natural Resource Management Research? 2: The History of NRM Research in the CGIAR 3: Productivity Enhancement and NRM, NRM Case Studies: What do they tell us? 4: Overview of the Case Studies 5: CIMMYT. Assessing the Impact of NRMR: The Case of Zero Tillage in India's Rice-Wheat Systems 6: CIAT. Impact of Participatory NRMR in Cassava-Based Cropping Systems in Vietnam and Thailand 7: WorldFish Centre. Impact of the Development and Dissemination of Integrated Aquaculture-Agriculture Technologies in Malawi 8: World Agroforestry Centre. Impacts of Improved Tree Fallow Technology in Zambia 9: ICARDA. Ex Post-impact Assessment of NRM Technologies in Crop-Livestock Systems in Dry Areas of Morocco and Tunisia 10: IWMI. Assessing the Outcome of IWMI's Research and Interventions on Irrigation Management Transfer 11: CIFOR. The Sustainability of Forest Management: Assessing the Impact of CIFOR Criteria and Indicators Research : Lessons learned and the Way ahead 12: The Major Lessons from the Case Studies 13: The Way ahead: Impact Assessment of NRM Research

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Book SynopsisBringing together reasons for why and where weeds occur and the ecological importance of weed management, this updated edition (previously entitled "Weed Ecology") provides an in-depth study of plant ecology with greater coverage of invasive plant biology and more concise statistics. In a new, larger format, printed in two colours, and illustrated throughout with figures, tables and case studies it is an essential text for students in plant ecology, agriculture and horticulture.Trade Review"As an undergraduate text [the book] does a superb job of traversing the wide expanse of ecology... several chapters should be key components of any course on understanding weed ecology" - Biological Invasions"Table of Contents1: Introduction to Invasion Ecology 2: The Distribution and Abundance of Populations 3: The Structure and Dynamics of Populations 4: Sexual Reproduction 5: Asexual Reproduction 6: From Seed to Seedling 7: Growing Up, Getting Old and Dying 8: Competition 9: Herbivory, Parasitism, and Mutualism 10: Basic Community Concepts and Diversity 11: Community Dynamics: Succession and Assembly 12: Landscape Scales and Invasive Species 13: Molecular Ecology: Applications for Invasive Plants 14: Plant Invasions: A Synthesis

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Book SynopsisGrassland ecosystems are deeply affected by human activities and need appropriate management to optimise trade-offs between ecosystem functions and services. Until now they have mainly been analysed as agro-ecosystems for animal production but this book looks beyond the role of grassland as a feeding ground, and evaluates other important processes such as carbon sequestration in soils, greenhouse gas regulation and biodiversity protection. This authoritative volume expertly highlights the need for an immediate balance between agriculture and ecological management for sustainability in the future.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Food security and environmental impacts; challenge for grassland sciences. Chapter 1: Primary production of grasslands, herbage accumulation and use, and impacts of climate change. Section 1: Productivity and use of grassland resource Chapter 2: Nutritional constraints for grazing animals and the importance of selective grazing behavior. Chapter 3: The influence of vegetation characteristics on foraging strategies and ingestive behavior. Chapter 4: Diversity, productivity and stability in grazing systems. Chapter 5: Importance of scale in the management of grassland resources. Chapter 6: Livestock production styles and managing grassland ecosystems. Section 2: Grasslands as regulating biogeochemical cycles and environmental fluxes to hydrosphere and atmosphere Chapter 7: Carbon storage and organic matter dynamics in grassland soil. Chapter 8: Managing C and N in grassland systems. The adaptive cycle theory perspective. Chapter 9: Managing mineral N leaching in grassland systems. Chapter 10: Greenhouse gas emission from grassland area and mitigation. Chapter 11: Role and impacts of legumes in grasslands for high productivity and N gain from symbiotic N2 fixation. Chapter 12: Efficiency of Phosphorus Cycling in Different Grassland Systems. Section 3: Grasslands as regulating biodiversity dynamics Chapter 13: Predicting biodiversity dynamics of grasslands under global changes: the role of long-term manipulation of climates. Chapter 14: Interactions between grassland management and species diversity. Chapter 15: Assessing the functional role of plant diversity in grasslands: a trait-based approach. Chapter 16: Exploiting genotypic and phenotypic plant diversity in grasslands. Chapter 17: Microbial diversity of grasslands, its functional role. Chapter 18: Soil fauna diversity and ecosystem functions in grasslands. Section 4: Grasslands as component of sustainable farming Chapter 19: Role of grasslands in intensive animal production in North-West Europe. Conditions for a more sustainable farming system. Chapter 20: Management of grazing systems in New Zealand and environmental impacts. Chapter 21: Rangeland management for sustainable conservation of natural resources. Chapter 22: Opportunities and challenges for integrating North-American crop and livestock systems. Chapter 23: Integration of grasslands within arable crop systems in South-America. Section 5: Grasslands as components of landscape ecology and agricultural systems at regional level Chapter 24: Temperate grasslands in catchment systems: the role of scale, connectivity and thresholds in the provision and regulation of water quality and quantity. Chapter 25: Integration of grasslands with forests at regional level. Chapter 26: Role of grasslands area within arable cropping systems for conservation or enhancing biodiversity at regional level. Chapter 27: Interactions between cereal cropping systems and pastoral areas as the base for a sustainable agriculture development in Mediterranean countries. Chapter 28: A way for developing integrated system at landscape level in tropical areas.

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Book SynopsisThis book is about the global environmental and economic crisis. It challenges the whole global economic system and its underlying beliefs, assumptions and values. We need a complete system transformation, a paradigm shift. This requires holistic and whole system thinking. It is a thoroughly hopeful book. The focus is on the possibility of a better world, a more fulfilling way of life, rather than what's wrong or what we have to give up. Could this book be the best one on the global environmental and economic crisis? The central argument is that we, ordinary people - 6.7 billion of us - need to use our people power to bring about a sustainable, fairer and non-violent world. This means putting our governments under constant pressure to do more and represent citizens' interests and not those of big business. There are many books about the global crisis. But few, aimed at empowering ordinary people, take a holistic approach. It is for those many people who are concerned, open minded and ready to act.Trade ReviewWe are in a place we have never been before. We are facing a series of interconnected systemic crises that put both humanity and the planet in serious peril. This book not only clearly describes the problem but, most importantly, points to the solution. The 'rules of the game' need to be radically changed and this will only happen if enough people, speaking with a clear enough voice, demand such a change. This book is not, therefore, a 'worthy' text on economics, but a vital handbook for our survival! (Stewart Wallis, Executive Director, New Economics Foundation) We have to take our power and demand that our governments act boldly to tackle the environmental crisis; create a global economy that serves everyone; create truly inclusive democracy at all levels; and stop wasting lives and money on war. This book will inspire, challenge you and make sense of how the system works. It's your handbook for a bottom up revolution. Read it and play your part. (Baroness Helena Kennedy QC)

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Book SynopsisExamines how pastoral peoples imagine, or even design, their futures under the pressure of changing environments and large-scale government projects. In East Africa and beyond, pastoral groups find themselves and their livelihoods under increasing threat when dealing with rapid environmental change. On the one hand, they contemplate major upheaval as a result of landscape and climate change on a scale never seen before. At the same time, these often-marginalised groups find themselves subsumed by the wider interests of national political economies prioritising new investment in land as well as encouraging tourism. This book investigates one such group - the nomadic pastoralists in East Pokot in north-west Kenya - and traces their social and ecological transformation over the past two hundred years to show how modern challenges are linked to the past history and also shape the perceptions of pastoral futures. In East Pokot the grass bush savannah upon which the pastoral lifestyle depends has strongly declined over a long period of time, with encroachment of acacia. Though traditionally cattle-rearing, its people have been forced to diversify into raising other browsing animals as well as cattle husbandry. The development efforts of the Kenyan government to use natural resources have also threatened their environment and their way of life. Bringing a long view to the history of human-environmental relations, the author reveals a more complex picture of change that, contrary to earlier assumptions, is not due exclusively to the pastoralists' pasture management, but also to the extinction of wildlife populations in the region, which were hunted heavily in colonial times. Attempts to move beyond Pokot territory, to the regions west of Lake Baringo and to the hard-fought Laikipia Plateau, have often been compromised by violent conflicts. While a younger generation looks to develop new sources of income through the job opportunities created by geothermal energy production, and diversify into other agricultural activities, this has also brought a dynamic social transformation: increasing production and sale of alcohol, decreasingly nomadic lifestyle, growing differences between the older and younger generations, and so on. Contributing to debates on future rural Africa, ecological history and environmental change, the book will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, historians and development scholars. Published in association with the Collaborative Research Centre FUTURE RURAL AFRICA, funded by the German Research Council (DFG).Trade ReviewA solid and insightful modern ethnography of the Pokot people. Captures well the shifts in pastoral practice. An excellent book of its kind. * Judging Panel - Amaury Talbot Prize *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. East Pokot: A Place and its People 3. Pokot Pastoral Livelihoods 4. The Paka Community 5. Environmental Changes in East Pokot 6. Socio-Ecological Transformations in the Agro-Pastoral Highlands 7. Ecological Change and Local Livelihoods: Scientific and Pokot Perspectives 8. Ecological Invasions and Socio-Ecological Transformation 9. Ecological Challenges and Social Transformations Appendix: List of Plant Names (Pokot-Scientific - Scientific-Pokot) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses those involved in research or R&D. It introduces the principles of eco-innovation and the importance of the impact of their activity. This topic is considered in the context of natural and digital ecosystems powered by intelligent assistants (technology). Chapter 1 positions the innovation as a process and component of ecosystems including research, enterprises, technology (digitalecosystems) and environment. Sustainable success is a condition of survival and an expectation of those who invest in innovation. Chapter 2 describes the main elements to consider and gives some tips. Chapter 3 presents some selected initiatives at the national and European level and provides a way of measuring success.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix FOREWORD xi INTRODUCTION xv ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS xxi CHAPTER 1. INNOVATION LANDSCAPE AND FIELDS 1 1.1. From intensive industrialization to intensive innovation: consequences of global business 1 1.2. Computer sciences, the Internet and mass media 7 1.2.1. Example of applying environmental principles 11 1.2.2. Artificial intelligence 17 1.3. Medicine and biotechnologies 23 1.3.1. Human spare parts and augmented human 25 1.3.2. Ambient assisted living 26 1.3.3. Biotechnology 27 1.4. Nanotechnologies 30 1.4.1. Biological risks of nanoparticles 32 1.5. Agriculture and food industry 33 1.6. Knowledge city, smart city, green city and wise city 38 1.7. Tourism and business travel 41 1.8. Fashion victims 41 1.9. Responsible innovation? 43 1.9.1. What alternative? 45 CHAPTER 2. INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS 49 2.1. The innovation biosphere 49 2.2. Some definitions 52 2.3. Innovation life 58 2.3.1. Continuous innovation and its context 58 2.3.2. Innovation dynamics 60 2.3.3. Balance: conditions for sustainable success 63 2.3.4. Role of knowledge and skills 70 2.4. Barriers, constraints and paradoxes 74 2.5 Some paradoxes 76 2.6. Measuring benefits78 2.7. Trends and future innovation 79 CHAPTER 3. CHALLENGES AND INNOVATION POLICIES 81 3.1. Challenges for the next decades 81 3.2. Main challenges: global, European and French perspectives 83 3.2.1. Challenges for Europe 85 3.2.2. Unemployment paradoxes and quick fixes 87 3.2.3. Challenge for France 91 3.2.4. Best practices in matching offer and demand 94 3.3. Innovation policy 95 3.3.1. Innovation policies in Europe 100 3.3.2. French innovation policy 113 3.4. Matching policy and challenges 118 CHAPTER 4. EXPERIMENTATIONS AND RESULTS 123 4.1. Ubiquitous or sustainable innovation 123 4.2. Selected actions around the world 124 4.2.1. Open Systems Science: Tokyo and Paris 129 4.2.2. Qatar Foundation 135 4.3. Europe 137 4.3.1. From Living Labs and Enoll to Innovation 2.0 137 4.3.2. Future Centers 144 4.3.3. Green and eco-innovation 150 4.3.4. Social and service innovation 152 4.4. Experiments in France 153 4.4.1. Merging for multidisciplinary (and cost saving) 156 4.5. Results and perspectives 157 CHAPTER 5. ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE SUCCESS 159 5.1. Know, appreciate and protect what we have 159 5.2. Problem solving 161 5.2.1. Motivation 162 5.2.2. Understanding the problem to solve 163 5.2.3. Solutions from the past and alternative solutions 163 5.3. Innovating in harmony with environmental intelligence 164 5.3.1. Minds of plants 165 5.3.2. Copying nature: biomimicry 167 5.4. Conditions for sustainable success 173 5.4.1. Removing the barriers 177 5.4.2. New professions: perspective for jobs 179 CONDITIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE 181 BIBLIOGRAPHY 185 INDEX 201

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Book SynopsisThe book features comparative perspectives on the field of chemical ecology, present and future, offered by scientists from a wide variety of disciplines. The scientists contributing to this book –biologists, ecologists, biochemists, chemists, biostatisticians – are interested in marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems and work on life forms ranging from micro-organisms to mammals, including humans, living in areas from the tropics to polar regions. Here, they cross their analyses of the present state of chemical ecology and its perspectives for the future. Those presented here include complex, multispecies communities and cover a wide range both of organisms and of the types of molecules that mediate the interactions between them. Up to now, no book has presented a solid scientific treatment of a wide range of examples. This book illustrates a diverse panel of the most advanced aspects of this rapidly expanding field.Table of ContentsForeword xiStéphanie THIÉBAULT and Françoise GAILL Introduction xiiiAnne-Geneviève BAGNÈRES and Martine HOSSAERT-MCKEY Chapter 1. Biodiversity and Chemical Mediation 1Bertrand SCHATZ, Doyle MCKEY and Thierry PÉREZ 1.1. Systematic and integrative taxonomy from chemical ecology 2 1.2. Scent communication between sexual partners 4 1.3. Scent communication between species 6 1.4. Chemical mimicry, to enhance reproduction 8 1.5. A dialog that sometimes evolves into an interaction network 10 1.6. Conclusions 18 1.7. Bibliography 18 Chapter 2. Chemical Ecology: An Integrative and Experimental Science 23Anne-Marie CORTESERO, Magali PROFFIT, Christophe DUPLAIS and Frédérique VIARD 2.1. Semiochemicals 23 2.2. Chemical ecology in multitrophic networks and co-evolution between species 28 2.3. Contribution of chemical ecology to the study of tropical plant diversification 32 2.4. When chemical ecology sheds light on the process of biological invasion – an example demonstratingintegration between chemistry and ecology 36 2.5. Protection is in the air: how plants defend themselves against phytophagous insects through VOC emissions 40 2.6. Conclusions 43 2.7. Bibliography 43 Chapter 3. Scents in the Social Life of Non-Human and Human Primates 47Marie CHARPENTIER, Guillaume ODONNE and Benoist SCHAAL 3.1. Primate societies and their complex systems of communication 47 3.2. The role of odors in human communication 53 3.2.1. Human odors convey a large panel of cues 53 3.2.2. Body odors reflect internal states 55 3.2.3. What are the functions of social smells in human daily life? 56 3.2.4. Human pheromones, fact or fiction? 59 3.3. The senses of smell and taste in the search for food and remedies 61 3.3.1. Interactions between senses and food in primates 61 3.3.2. Senses and self-medication in animals 62 3.3.3. Senses in human therapies 63 3.3.4. An evolutionary conception of the link between senses and health 65 3.4. Conclusions – the adaptive functions of the sense of smell in “microsmatic” species 66 3.5. Bibliography 68 Chapter 4. Microbiota and Chemical Ecology 71Soizic PRADO, Catherine LEBLANC and Sylvie REBUFFAT 4.1. The protagonist microorganisms of chemical ecology 71 4.2. Strategies for the study of microbiota 72 4.2.1. How should the microbiota be characterized? 72 4.2.2. What tools are available to help understand the roles of the microbiota? 73 4.3. The molecular dialog of microorganisms 75 4.3.1. Language and social life of microorganisms 75 4.3.2. The AMPs, main actors in the equilibrium of bacterial communities 78 4.3.3. Fungi and bacteria communicate to better help each other 79 4.3.4. When helping each other degenerates into chemical warfare between bacteria and fungi 80 4.3.5. The Trichoderma fungi: heavy artillery against pathogenic fungi 80 4.4. Chemical communication between microorganisms and their hosts 81 4.4.1. Plant–bacteria relationships: essential interactions with different partners 81 4.4.2. Plants also establish intimate relations with fungi 83 4.4.3. Mutualist actinobacteria provide care to insects 85 4.4.4. Chemical communication between microorganisms and their host in the marine environment 87 4.5. Regulations and evolution of the interactions in changing ecosystems and environments 89 4.5.1. Contribution of chemical ecology to the understanding of biosynthesis mechanisms of chemical mediators 90 4.5.2. Metabolic networks: new tools for studying the evolution of host/microbiota interactions 91 4.6. Conclusions – from chemical ecology to future applications: impacts of the study of the microbiota 91 4.7. Bibliography 92 Chapter 5. From Chemical Ecology to Ecogeochemistry 95Catherine FERNANDEZ, Virginie BALDY and Nadine LE BRIS 5.1. Balance between primary and secondary metabolism 96 5.2. Role of secondary metabolites in biotic interactions and community structure 99 5.3. Secondary metabolites and ecosystem functioning: plant soil relation – brown food chain 103 5.4. Integration of biotic and abiotic dynamics: benthic marine microhabitats 109 5.5. Conclusions 114 5.6. Bibliography 114 Chapter 6. Omics in Chemical Ecology 117Sylvie BAUDINO, Christophe LUCAS and Carole SMADJA 6.1. Introduction: the different “omic” technologies 118 6.2. From “omics” to signals: identifying new active molecules 120 6.3. From “omics” to the ecology of communities: identifying chemical interactions of organisms in their environment 121 6.4. From “omics” to molecular bases: revealing the genetic and molecular bases of chemical interactions 122 6.5. From “omics” to physiology: characterizing the modes of production and the modes of reception of active molecules 127 6.6. From “omics” to the role of environment: understanding the impact of biotic and abiotic factors on interactions 128 6.7. From “omics” to evolution: understanding and predicting the adaptive value of chemical interactions 131 6.8. Conclusions and perspectives 133 6.9. Bibliography 134 Chapter 7. Metabolomic Contributions to Chemical Ecology 139Philippe POTIN, Florence NICOLÈ and Olivier P. THOMAS 7.1. Definition of metabolomics 139 7.2. Different strategies of the metabolomic approaches 140 7.3. The different steps for conducting a metabolomic study 141 7.3.1. Experimental design and sampling 142 7.3.2. Analytical approaches 144 7.3.3. Data processing 144 7.4. Applications of metabolomics 151 7.4.1. Chemical biodiversity and chemotaxonomy 151 7.4.2. Study of the regulation and evolution of metabolic/ biosynthesis pathways 152 7.4.3. Contributions to functional ecology 155 7.4.4. Application of metabolomics to the study of environmental disturbances 157 7.5. Conclusions 157 7.6. Bibliography 158 Chapter 8. Chemical, Biological and Computational Tools in Chemical Ecology 161Nicolas BARTHÈS, Jean-Claude CAISSARD, Jérémy JUST and Xavier FERNANDEZ 8.1. Chemical tools 161 8.1.1. Analytical tools of chromatography 161 8.1.2. Analytical approach by nuclear magnetic resonance 168 8.1.3. Secondary metabolite imagery techniques 170 8.2. Sequencing tools 173 8.2.1. Principles, strengths and limitations of NGS 174 8.2.2. Major domains of NGS applications 175 8.3. Databases: biodiversity in silico 179 8.3.1. Databases of chemical compounds and general ecology 180 8.3.2. Databases for the omics that can be used in chemical ecology 181 8.4. Conclusions 183 8.5. Bibliography 183 Chapter 9. Academic and Economic Values of Understanding Chemical Communication 185Bernard BANAIGS, Ali AL MOURABIT, Guillaume CLAVE and Claude GRISON 9.1. Nature as a model 185 9.2. Nature as a model for development of new molecules of interest 187 9.2.1. From chemical mediators to new bioactive structural archetypes 188 9.2.2. Biosynthesis and biomimetic synthesis 192 9.2.3. Chemical mediators and ligand/receptor interactions: to the discovery of new cellular receptors and biochemical tools 195 9.3. Chemical ecology and sustainable development 196 9.3.1. Bio-control 198 9.3.2. Bio-inspired chemistry and remedial phytotechnologies 200 9.4. Conclusions 205 9.5. Bibliography 205 Conclusion 207Martine HOSSAERT-MCKEY and Anne-Geneviève BAGNÈRES Glossary 213 List of Authors 217 Index 221

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental policymaking has become an experimental field for new modes of governance. This timely book focuses on three prominent characteristics of new governance arrangements: the broad participation of non-state actors, the attempt to improve vertical and horizontal coordination, and the effort to integrate different types of expertise in an effective and democratically accountable way. Building on the analytical perspectives of legitimacy and effectiveness, which are seen as genuine acid test criteria for new governance, this book provides a critical assessment of current practices of participation, coordination and evidence-based policymaking in various case studies of environmental governance, in particular in the fields of biodiversity, climate and forest policy. The book provides insights from selected governance processes that go beyond consultancy-style best-practice examples but are embedded in a solid conceptual and theoretical discussion that will be invaluable to policymakers. It will also prove essential for scholars interested in environmental politics; policy studies; public policy; public administration; European politics; as well as science and technology studies. Contributors: S. Beck, M. Bocher, T.E. Boon, L. Giessen, K. Hogl, K. Kassioumis, M. Krott, E. Kvarda, D.H. Lund, I. Nathan, J. Newig, R. Nordbeck, K. Papageorgiou, M. Pregernig, S. Storch, M. Vakkas, S. WeilandTrade Review’An imaginative and stimulating collection of essays that makes an indispensable contribution to the literature on forest and environmental policy and governance.’- David Humphreys, The Open University, UK ’This is a very timely, relevant and interesting volume. Environmental problems are pertinent problems, as the book rightly states, so we need continuous attention and effort to analyse and apply environmental governance modes. Although urgently needed, their effectiveness and legitimacy are neither straight forward nor given. Therefore, a thorough in-depth analysis of these modes, their characteristics and their pros and cons is very helpful, both for academics and policy makers. This is exactly what this book offers.’- Bas Arts, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface INTRODUCTION 1. Legitimacy and Effectiveness of Environmental Governance – Concepts and Perspectives Karl Hogl, Eva Kvarda, Ralf Nordbeck and Michael Pregernig PART I: THE CHALLENGE OF PARTICIPATION 2. Participation in Environmental Governance: Legitimate and Effective? Jens Newig and Eva Kvarda 3. More Effective Natural Resource Management through Participatory Governance? Taking Stock of the Conceptual and Empirical Literature – and Moving Forward Jens Newig 4. Legitimacy and Policy Effectiveness of National Strategies for Sustainability in Austria Eva Kvarda and Ralf Nordbeck 5. The National Park Process in Denmark: A Network Governance Approach to Democratize Nature Policy-making? Tove E. Boon, Iben Nathan and Dorthe H. Lund PART II: THE CHALLENGE OF POLICY COORDINATION 6. The Challenge of Coordination: Bridging Horizontal and Vertical Boundaries Karl Hogl and Ralf Nordbeck 7. The Shift from Hierarchy to Governance in National Park Management: Analysing Participation, Coordination and Political Commitment Kostas Papageorgiou, Kostas Kassioumis and Michael Vakkas 8. Temporary Governance and Persistent Government: Rural Policy Integration in Pilot and Mainstream Funding Programs Lukas Giessen 9. Reflexive Governance: A Way Forward for Coordinated Natural Resource Policy? Sabine Weiland PART III: THE CHALLENGES OF SCIENCE-POLICY INTEGRATION 10. Normative and Analytical Perspectives on the Role of Science and Expertise in Environmental Governance Michael Pregernig and Michael Böcher 11. From Truth to Trust: Lessons Learned from ‘Climategate’ Silke Beck 12. Scientific and Local Knowledge in the Danish National Park Process Dorthe H. Lund 13. Institutionalization of Accountability within Mission-oriented Research: The Example of the ‘Decision Support System Forest and Climate Change’ Sabine Storch, Max Krott and Michael Böcher CONCLUSIONS 14. Effectiveness and Legitimacy of Environmental Governance – Synopsis of Key Insights Karl Hogl, Eva Kvarda, Ralf Nordbeck and Michael Pregernig Index

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of this Handbook contains more than 30 new and original articles as well as six essential updates by leading scholars of global environmental politics. This landmark book maps the latest theoretical and empirical research in this energetic and growing field. Captured here are the pioneering and lively debates over concerns for the health of the planet and how they might best be addressed. The introduction explores the intellectual trends and evolving parameters in the field of global environmental politics. It makes a case for an expansive definition of the field, one that embraces an interdisciplinary literature on the connections between global politics and environmental change. The remaining chapters are divided into four broad themes - states and cooperation; global governance; the political economy of governance; and knowledge and ethics - with each section covering key emerging issues. In-depth explorations are given to topics such as climate change, multinational corporations, international agreements and UN organizations, regulations and business standards, trade and international finance, multilevel and transnational governance, and ecological citizenship. Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, Second Edition is a comprehensive review of the field and offers cutting-edge ideas for further research. As such, scholars, students and policy makers will find themselves looking to it for many years to come. Contributors: S. Andresen, K. Backstrand, J.S. Barkin, S. Bernstein, F. Biermann, H. Bulkeley, K. Conca, P. Dauvergne, I. de Soysa, E.R. DeSombre, R. Dimitrov, A. Dobson, L. Elliott, R. Falkner, M. Finger, D. Fuchs, T. Gehring, L.H. Gulbrandsen, J. Gupta, T. Gutner, M.J. Hoffmann, D. Humphreys, S. Jinnah, A. Jordan, A. Kalfagianni, G. Kutting, D.L. Levy, R.D. Lipschutz, K. Litfin, R. Matthew, A.P.J. Mol, P. Newell, S. Park, M. Paterson, T. Princen, T. Rayner, H. Schroeder, H. Selin, T. Skodvin, G. Spaargaren, D.F. Sprinz, D. Svarin, J. Vogler, P. Wapner, M. WilliamsTrade Review‘Both novices and experts will benefit from having this outstanding resource in hand. It contains vivid descriptions on the cutting edge topics that form the heart of contemporary environmental politics. It offers a mother lode of footnote and end-of-chapter bibliographical material that can be mined for profit.’ -- American Society of International Law NewsletterTable of ContentsContents: PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Research Trends in Global Environmental Politics Peter Dauvergne PART II: STATES AND COOPERATION 2. When Regimes Backfire: Institutional Expectations and Environmental Deadlock J. Samuel Barkin 3. Changing Issue Structure to Avoid Free Riders: Protecting the Ocean Environment Elizabeth R. DeSombre 4. International Environmental Regimes as Decision Machines Thomas Gehring 5. Climate Regime Design, the Global Warming Potential, and Climate Risk Management Tora Skodvin 6. The Politics of Persuasion: UN Climate Change Negotiations Radoslav Dimitrov 7. Do We Need More Global Sustainability Conferences? Steinar Andresen 8. Changing North–South Challenges in Global Environmental Politics Joyeeta Gupta 9. Environment, Conflict, and Peacebuilding Richard Matthew 10. The Comfortable Lie? Another Look at Natural Resource Scarcity and Armed Conflict Indra de Soysa PART III: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 11. Legitimacy Problems and Responses in Global Environmental Governance Steven Bernstein 12. International Organizations and Global Environmental Governance: Toward Structural Reform Frank Biermann 13. Studying the Global Commons: Governance without Politics? John Vogler 14. Long-term Environmental Policy: Definition–Origin–Response Options Detlef F. Sprinz 15. Global Environmental Politics and Governance: A Networks and Flows Perspective Arthur P.J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren 16. Global Multilevel Governance and the Management of Hazardous Chemicals Henrik Selin 17. Governing Climate Change: The Challenge of Mitigating and Adapting in a Warming World Tim Rayner and Andrew Jordan 18. Climate Governance Experiments Matthew J. Hoffmann 19. Global Cities and the Politics of Climate Change Harriet Bulkeley and Heike Schroeder PART IV: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GOVERNANCE 20. The Political Ecology of Globalization Peter Newell 21. Exploring Global Governance from a Critical Global Political Economy Perspective Gabriela Kütting 22. Nonstate Actors in Global Environmental Governance Matthias Finger and David Svarin 23. The Effectiveness of Private Environmental Governance Doris Fuchs and Agni Kalfagianni 24. Private Actors and Strategies in Global Environmental Governance: The Role of Information Disclosure David L. Levy 25. Business Power, Business Conflict: A Neo-pluralist Perspective on International Environmental Politics Robert Falkner 26. Impacts of Nonstate Governance: Lessons from the Certification of Marine Fisheries Lars H. Gulbrandsen 27. Evaluating World Bank Environmental Performance Tamar Gutner 28. Greening Development Finance: Cases from the World Bank Group Susan Park 29. Moving the Earth: Cars and the Dynamics of Environmental Politics Matthew Paterson 30. Trade–Environment Politics: The Emerging Role of Regional Trade Agreements Sikina Jinnah PART V: KNOWLEDGE AND ETHICS 31. Environmental Human Rights: Greening “the Dignity and Worth of the Human Person” Ken Conca 32. Thinking like a Planet: Gaian Politics and the Transformation of the World Food System Karen Litfin 33. After Nature: Environmental Politics in a Postmodern Age Paul Wapner 34. Knowledge, Power and Global Environmental Policy Marc Williams 35. The Global Politics of Geoengineering David Humphreys 36. A Sustainability Ethic Thomas Princen 37. The Sustainability Debate: Déjà Vu All Over Again? Ronnie D. Lipschutz 38. Transnational Environmental Harm, Inequity and the Cosmopolitan Response Lorraine Elliott 39. Democracy and Global Environmental Politics Karin Bäckstrand 40. Ecological Citizenship Revisited Andrew Dobson Index

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Book SynopsisThe effectiveness and scope of operational analysis of sustainable development is explored in this major new book. Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development offers an integrated treatment of theory, methods and applications for economic-ecological analysis taking into consideration all the relevant interactions between economic, development and physical and biological processes.An overview of different theoretical perspectives, based on insights from economics, ecology and thermodynamics, is followed by discussion of the dimensions of sustainable development including ethics and intergenerational equity, sustainable and multiple use, and spatial sustainability. The second part of the book discusses methods for analysis, covering the choice of indicators, natural resource accounting, and integrated static, dynamic and spatial modelling, and evaluation, including multi-criteria and cost-benefit analysis. Attention is also given to decision support and the choice of policy instruments.Combinations of the various methods are applied in the final part of the book, using case studies which cover a range of ecosystems and regions, as well as a variety of issues and problems. These studies clearly show the potential of policy-oriented integrated economic-ecological analysis for sustainable development.Trade Review'This volume makes no excessive claims for the use of EE in its present form for informing environmental policy. It is refreshingly pragmatic and provides an excellent account of how EE is developing.'Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Preface Part I: Concepts, Theories and Frameworks Part II: Methods for Analysis and Evaluation Part III: Application of Methods–Case Studies References Index

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Book SynopsisIndustrial Ecology is perhaps the first serious attempt to go beyond general statements regarding the desirability of 'clean technology' and to assess realistically and quantitatively the range of practicable possibilities for reducing materials extraction, consumption and waste.This major new book examines strategic options for reducing wastes and pollution and increasing the productivity of materials. Using an industrial ecology perspective, the authors analyse thirteen generic cases of material, beginning with four families of metals (aluminium, chromium, copper and zinc), several families of chemicals (phosphates and fluorine; suphur-based, nitrogen-based and chlorine-based), silicon and several different types of waste. Opportunities for creating 'industrial ecosystems' by deliberate design are discussed as well as the use of low-value by-products as feed stocks for useful products. In addition to surveying the technological possibilities, the authors also consider the public interest, institutional barriers and the range of possible alternatives that might be applicable. Environmental scientists, economists, practitioners and policy makers will welcome Industrial Ecology's integrated approach and the emphasis which it places on resource productivity, materials cycle optimization and waste minimization.Trade Review'True to form, Ayres and Ayre's Industrial Ecology is a significant addition to the field, full of new and provocative ideas. While most works on industrial ecology can manage only a handful of case studies, the list of chapters in itself shows that this is a tour de force.'Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Materials Perspective 2. Resource Perspective 3. Alumina, Aluminum and Gallium 4. Copper, Cobalt, Silver and Arsenic 5. Chromium Sources, Uses and Losses 6. Zinc and Cadmium 7. Sulfur and Sulfuric Acid 8. Phosphorus, Fluorine and Gypsum 9. Nitrogen-Based Chemicals 10. The Chlor-Alkali Sector 11. Electronic Grade Silicon (EGS) for Semiconductors 12. Post-Consumer Packaging Wastes 13. Scrap Tires 14. Coal Ash: Sources and Possible Uses 15. On Industrial Ecosystems 16. Summary and Conclusions References Indexes

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Book SynopsisCurrent population growth is leading to a depletion in natural resources and could eventually cause irreversible damage to the environment. This book attempts to explain trends in the growth of the global population and the ecological consequences by blending the insights of analytical economics and behavioural ecology.The book begins by looking at population from a long term perspective and considers the ecological influences before going on to examine the economics of population growth. Reproduction decisions of the family are then analysed, and the welfare effect of these decisions on society as a whole are considered. Anup Shah pays particular attention to policies which could try to prevent or cure overpopulation. He asks whether there is a case for intervening in order to prevent overpopulation, and suggests that one way of reducing the effects of population growth is through technological advances which can help compensate for the adverse external effects. Finally, he examines the future of urban centres in the light of population growth.The book is written from a multidisciplinary approach and will have a wide readership throughout the social sciences. It will have particular appeal for economists, geographers, earth scientists, ecologists, environmentalists and those working in the area of development studies.Trade Review'Shah makes clear the need for a discourse on population between biologists and economists. . .'Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction Part I: Ecological Analysis 2. The Ecological Foundations of Fertility 3. Moving Down the Eltonian Pyramid Part II: Economic Analysis 4. Malthusian Economics Versus the Demographic Transition 5. The Demographic Transition to Smaller Families 6. The Third World Couple Part III: Normative Analysis 7. Overpopulation 8. Self-regulation of Family Size in a Community 9. Indirect Intervention 10. Direct Intervention Part IV: Wherein lies the Future? 11. An Urban Future 12. Conclusions References

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Book SynopsisThis important book examines the economic policies required to reduce carbon dioxide emissions - a major source of pollution throughout the world. It explores the likely impact of environmental taxes on income distribution and economic welfare.The authors consider a tax on domestic fuel and power and a carbon tax, and the likely adverse distribution effects of these on a population. The analysis allows for the direct and indirect effects (through inter-industry transactions) of taxes on prices and consumers' responses to these price changes. The welfare effects are also estimated for a variety of income groups. The authors then evaluate the inequality and social welfare measures and consider whether the distributional effects can be overcome by adjusting transfer payments to compensate lower-income groups. This study examines environmental taxes in Australia with methods which can be applied to other countries, some of which were specifically designed to overcome data limitation problems.Environmental Taxes and Economic Welfare will be of special interest to researchers, academics, policymakers and advisers on taxation and environmental policy.Trade Review'The book stands as a rigorous evaluation of structural changes required to achieve the Toronto Target in carbon emissions reduction, the order of magnitude of a carbon tax required, and the distributional and welfare effects of domestic fuel and carbon taxes in Australia.' -- Meredith Fowlie, Journal of Energy Literature'This book is a very important contribution to the debate about the economic implications of Australia's response to global change.'– Ian Lowe, Economic RecordTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. A Minimum Disruption Approach 3. Minimum Disruption Calculations 4. Domestic Fuel Taxation 5. Modelling Demand Responses 6. Fuel Taxation with Demand Responses 7. The Effects of a Carbon Tax 8. Measuring Welfare Changes 9. The Welfare Effects of a Carbon Tax 10. Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis two volume collection of pioneering material includes landmarks and significant contributions to the subjects of global environmental issues. The editors have prepared a new introduction for this authoritative collection.This collection enables the reader, whether an economist or environmentalist, to have access to material published in a wide range of journals, many of which are relatively unavailable. It will be of considerable value to researchers and teachers in all of the disciplines, including: theoretical ecology; resource and environmental economics; industrial ecology and environmental science.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements • Introduction Part I: Ecological/Biological Perspective: Human Impacts on Biosphere, Gaia, Etc. 1. W.I. Vernadsky (1945), ‘The Biosphere and Noosphere’ 2. G.E. Hutchinson (1948), ‘On Living in the Biosphere’ 3. Walter Isard (1968), ‘Some Notes on the Linkage of Ecologic and Economic Systems’ 4. Lester Machta (1972), ‘The Role of the Oceans and Biosphere in the Carbon Dioxide Cycle’ 5. James E. Lovelock and Lynn Margulis (1974), ‘Atmospheric Homeostasis by and for the Biosphere: The Gaia Hypothesis’ 6. M.J. Chadwick (1975), ‘The Cycling of Materials in Disturbed Environments’ 7. J.M. Wood and E.D. Goldberg (1977), ‘Impact of Metals on the Biosphere’ 8. Rudolph B. Husar and Janet M. Holloway (1983), ‘Sulfur and Nitrogen over North America’ 9. William C. Clark (1989), ‘The Human Ecology of Global Change’ 10. Paul P. Christensen (1989), ‘Historical Roots for Ecological Economics – Biophysical versus Allocative Approaches’ 11. Anne P. Kinzig and Robert H. Socolow (1994), ‘Human Impacts on the Nitrogen Cycle’ 12. Robert Costanza, Ralph d’Arge, Rudolf de Groot, Stephen Farber, Monica Grasso, Bruce Hannon, Karin Limburg, Shahid Naeem, Robert V. O’Neill, Jose Paruelo, Robert G. Raskin, Paul Sutton and Marjan van den Belt (1997), ‘The Value of the World’s Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital’ Part II: Physical Economics Perspective: Materials Energy, Entropy, Mass Balance 13. William D. Nordhaus (1973), ‘The Allocation of Energy Resources’ 14. Clark W. Bullard III and Robert A. Herendeen (1975), ‘Energy Impact of Consumption Decisions’ 15. Bruce Hannon (1975), ‘Energy Conservation and the Consumer’ 16. R.U. Ayres and M. Narkus-Kramer (1976), ‘An Assessment of Methodologies for Estimating National Energy Efficiency’ 17. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1976), ‘Process Analysis and the Neoclassical Theory of Production’ and ‘The Economics of Production’ 18. R. Stephen Berry, Peter Salamon and Geoffrey Heal (1978), ‘On a Relation Between Economic and Thermodynamic Optima’ 19. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1979), ‘Energy Analysis and Economic Valuation’ 20. Cutler J. Cleveland, Robert Costanza, Charles A.S. Hall and Robert Kaufmann (1984), ‘Energy and the US Economy: A Biophysical Perspective’ 21. Robert U. Ayres (1989), ‘Industrial Metabolism’ 22. R.U. Ayres and A.V. Kneese (1989), ‘Externalities: Economics & Thermodynamics’ 23. Evan Mills, Deborah Wilson and Thomas B. Johansson (1991), ‘Getting Started: No-Regrets Strategies for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions’ 24. Herman E. Daly (1992), ‘Is the Entropy Law Relevant to the Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity? – Yes, of course it is!’ 25. C. Bianciardi, A. Donati and S. Ulgiati (1993), ‘On the Relationship between the Economic Process, the Carnot Cycle and the Entropy Law’ 26. A. Azapagic and R. Clift (1995), ‘Life Cycle Assessment and Linear Programming – Environmental Optimisation of Product System’ 27. Sander de Bruyn, Jeroen van den Bergh and Hans Opschoor (1997), ‘Structural Change, Growth, and Dematerialization: An Empirical Analysis’ Name Index Volume II: Part I: Resource/Environmental Perspective: Materials Energy, Exergy, Entropy, Mass Balance 1. John H. Cumberland (1966), ‘A Regional Interindustry Model for Analysis of Development Objectives’ 2. Kenneth E. Boulding (1966), ‘The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth’ 3. Herman E. Daly (1968), ‘On Economics as a Life Science’ 4. Robert U. Ayres and Allen V. Kneese (1969), ‘Production, Consumption, and Externalities’ 5. Ralph C. d’Arge and Allen V. Kneese (1972), ‘Environmental Quality and International Trade’ 6. Thomas D. Crocker and John Tschirhart (1972), ‘Ecosystems, Externalities, and Economies’ 7. Kenneth C. Hoffman and Dale W. Jorgenson (1977), ‘Economic and Technological Models for Evaluation of Energy Policy’ 8. Richard Grace, R. Kerry Turner and Ingo Walter (1978), ‘Secondary Materials and International Trade’ 9. David James (1985), ‘Environmental Economics, Industrial Process Models, and Regional-Residuals Management Models’ 10. Curt L. Anderson (1987), ‘The Production Process: Inputs and Wastes’ 11. Martin Jänicke, Harald Mönch and Manfred Binder (1993), ‘Ecological Aspects of Structural Change’ 12. Udo E. Simonis (1989), ‘Ecological Modernization of Industrial Society: Three Strategic Elements’ 13. A. Rose and C.Y. Chen (1991), ‘Sources of Change in Energy Use in the U.S. Economy, 1972-1982: A Structural Decomposition Analysis’ 14. David T. Allen and Nasrin Behmanesh (1994), ‘Wastes as Raw Materials’ 15. Don Fullerton and Thomas C. Kinnaman (1995), ‘Garbage, Recycling, and Illicit Burning or Dumping’ 16. S.M. de Bruyn and J.B. Opschoor (1997), ‘Developments in the Throughput-Income Relationship: Theoretical and Empirical Observations’ Part II: Sustainability and Growth Perspective Limits, Factors. . . 17. P.S. Dasgupta (1969), ‘On the Concept of Optimum Population’ 18. Ralph C. d’Arge (1971), ‘Essay on Economic Growth and Environmental Quality’ 19. R.C. d’Arge and K.C. Kogiku (1973), ‘Economic Growth and the Environment’ 20. Herman E. Daly (1974), ‘The Economics of the Steady State’ 21. Partha Dasgupta and Geoffrey Heal (1974), ‘The Optimal Depletion of Exhaustible Resources’ 22. Edward A. Hudson and Dale W. Jorgenson (1974), ‘U.S. Energy Policy and Economic Growth, 1975-2000’ 23. Robert M. Solow (1974), ‘The Economics of Resources or the Resources of Economics’ 24. John M. Hartwick (1977), ‘Intergenerational Equity and the Investing of Rents from Exhaustible Resources’ 25. J.E. Stiglitz (1979), ‘A Neoclassical Analysis of the Economics of Natural Resources’ 26. Bruce Hannon and John Joyce (1981), ‘Energy and Technical Progress’ 27. Partha Dasgupta and Karl-Göran Mäler (1991), ‘The Environment and Emerging Development Issues’ 28. L.S. Gross and E.C.H. Veendorp (1990), ‘Growth with Exhaustible Resources and a Materials-Balance Production Function’ 29. Paul M. Romer (1990), ‘Endogenous Technological Change’ 30. Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh and Peter Nijkamp (1994), ‘Dynamic Macro Modelling and Materials Balance: Economic-Environmental Integration for Sustainable Development’ 31. David Pearce, Kirk Hamilton and Giles Atkinson (1996), ‘Measuring Sustainable Development: Progress on Indicators’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisIntegrated assessment modelling is an active and rapidly developing field, triggered by the debate on climate change and the move towards the goal of sustainable development. This book provides an integrated approach to modelling, using a transdisciplinary approach. The author summarizes the main issues involved in the changing global system, and gives an overview of the emerging field of integrated assessment. He then presents a general discussion of the methodological principles of a multidisciplinary integrated modelling approach. Existing tools are examined and new methodological approaches are applied to various aspects of the problem of global change. The case studies focus on optimizing climate change mitigating policies, the allocation of emission rights and the the adaptive behaviour of social and biological agents. Special attention is given to the role of uncertainty, especially the subjective interpretation of uncertainties (world views), and the role of adaptive multi-agent modelling. The book concludes with a discussion on future uses of integrated assessment modelling in the global environment.Modelling Global Change will be vital to economists and scientists who have an interest in integrated assessment modelling, global modelling and decision support, environmental and ecological economists and those interested in sustainable development.Trade Review'. . . this is a book that anyone interested in integrated assessment modelling is advised to read.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Global Change 3. Integrated Assessment Modelling 4. Methodological Issues 5.Optimizing the Climate Change Problem 6. Global Energy Strategies 7. The Initial Allocation of Emission Rights 8. The Battle of Perspectives 9. Managing Malaria 10. Conclusions and Discussion Index

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Book SynopsisEcosystems and Nature brings together the work of leading authorities in biodiversity research. It provides readers with a broad interdisciplinary perspective on the major issues in biodiversity, including economics, natural science, management and ethics.The collection is divided into four main sections: part I introduces some fundamental scientific and socio-economic concepts and analysis in order to illustrate the complexities involved in the human-ecosystems interface; part II deals with the valuation of ecosystems with special emphasis on the main biomes, faults, wetlands, marine systems, grasslands and agriculture; part III covers the problem of value appropriation and the relevant constraints and available policy instruments; the final section focuses on the difficult ethical issues that surround utilization and conservation of biodiversity.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Biodiversity: Basic Science and Economics 1. C.S. Holling (1973), ‘Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems’ 2. Carl Folke, C.S. Holling and Charles Perrings (1996), ‘Biological Diversity, Ecosystems, and the Human Scale’ 3. Kris H. Johnson, Kristiina A. Vogt, Heidi J. Clark, Oswald J. Schmitz and Daniel J. Vogt (1996), ‘Biodiversity and the Productivity and Stability of Ecosystems’ 4. Stuart L. Pimm, Gareth J. Russell, John L. Gittleman and Thomas M. Brooks (1995), ‘The Future of Biodiversity’ 5. Kenneth Arrow, Bert Bolin, Robert Costanza, Partha Dasgupta, Carl Folke, C.S. Holling, Bengt-Owe Jansson, Simon Levin, Karl-Göran Mäler, Charles Perrings and David Pimentel (1995), ‘Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment’ 6. Charles Perrings and David Pearce (1994), ‘Threshold Effects and Incentives for the Conservation of Biodiversity’ 7. Timothy M. Swanson (1994), ‘The Economics of Extinction Revisited and Revised: A Generalised Framework for the Analysis of the Problems of Endangered Species and Biodiversity Losses’ Part II: Valuing Ecosystemfunctions and Services: Demonstrating the Value of Natural Biological Capital A Overviews 8. Gail Bingham, Richard Bishop, Michael Brody, Daniel Bromley, Edwin (Toby) Clark, William Cooper, Robert Costanza, Thomas Hale, Gregory Hayden, Stephen Kellert, Richard Norgaard, Bryan Norton, John Payne, Clifford Russell and Glenn Suter (1995), ‘Issues in Ecosystem Valuation: Improving Information for Decision Making’ 9. N. Bockstael, R. Costanza, I. Strand, W. Boynton, K. Bell and L. Wainger (1995), ‘Ecological Economic Modeling and Valuation of Ecosystems’ 10. John M. Gowdy (1997), ‘The Value of Biodiversity: Markets, Society, and Ecosystems’ B Tropical and Temperate Forests 11. Ricardo Godoy, Ruben Lubowski and Anil Markandya (1993), ‘A Method for the Economic Valuation of Non-Timber Forest Products’ 12. W. Neil Adger, Katrina Brown, Raffaello Cervigni and Dominic Moran (1995), ‘Total Economic Value of Forests in Mexico’ 13. Thomas D. Crocker (1985), ‘On the Value of the Condition of a Forest Stock’ C Temperate and Tropical Wetlands 14. Edward B. Barbier (1994), ‘Valuing Environmental Functions: Tropical Wetlands’ 15. Robert Costanza, Stephen C. Farber and Judith Maxwell (1989), ‘Valuation and Management of Wetland Ecosystems’ 16. Stephen K. Swallow (1994), ‘Renewable and Nonrenewable Resource Theory Applied to Coastal Agriculture, Forest, Wetland, and Fisheries Linkages’ D Marine Resources 17. R.K. Turner, S. Subak and W.N. Adger (1996), ‘Pressures, Trends, and Impacts in Coastal Zones: Interactions Between Socioeconomic and Natural Systems’ 18. H. Jack Ruitenbeek (1994), ‘Modelling Economy-Ecology Linkages in Mangroves: Economic Evidence for Promoting Conservation in Bintuni Bay, Indonesia’ 19. John B. Loomis and Douglas M. Larson (1994), ‘Total Economic Values of Increasing Gray Whale Populations: Results from a Contingent Valuation Survey of Visitors and Households’ E Grasslands and Agriculture 20. Katrina Brown (1997), ‘Plain Tales from the Grasslands: Extraction, Value and Utilization of Biomass in Royal Bardia National Park, Nepal’ 21. Lars Drake (1992), ‘The Non-Market Value of the Swedish Agricultural Landscape’ Part III: Capturing the Value of Ecosystemfunctions and Services A Property Rights, Institutions and Policy Instruments 22. James R. Kahn and Judith A. McDonald (1995), ‘Third-World Debt and Tropical Deforestation’ 23. H. Jack Ruitenbeek (1992), ‘The Rainforest Supply Price: A Tool for Evaluating Rainforest Conservation Expenditures’ 24. Brent M. Swallow and Daniel W. Bromley (1995), ‘Institutions, Governance and Incentives in Common Property Regimes for African Rangelands’ 25. Madhav Gadgil (1992), ‘Conserving Biodiversity as if People Matter: A Case Study from India’ 26. Martin Whitby and Caroline Saunders (1996), ‘Estimating the Supply of Conservation Goods in Britain: A Comparison of the Financial Efficiency of Two Policy Instruments’ B Conservation Management Priorities, Safe Minimum Standards and Opportunity Costs 27. Dominic Moran, David Pearce and Anouk Wendelaar (1996), ‘Global Biodiversity Priorities: A Cost-Effectiveness Index for Investments’ 28. Charles Perrings and Brian Walker (1997), ‘Biodiversity, Resilience and the Control of Ecological-Economic Systems: The Case of Fire-Driven Rangelands’ 29. Andreas Hohl and Clement A. Tisdell (1993), ‘How Useful are Environmental Safety Standards in Economics? – The Example of Safe Minimum Standards for Protection of Species’ 30. Priya Shyamsundar and Randall Kramer (1997), ‘Biodiversity Conservation – At What Cost? A Study of Households in the Vicinity of Madagascar’s Mantadia National Park’ 31. Sandra S. Batie and Carl C. Mabbs-Zeno (1985), ‘Opportunity Costs of Preserving Coastal Wetlands: A Case Study of a Recreational Housing Development’ Part IV: Ethics 32. Holmes Rolston III (1985), ‘Valuing Wildlands’ 33. Bryan G. Norton (1995), ‘Evaluating Ecosystem States: Two Competing Paradigms’ 34. Talbot Page (1995), ‘Harmony and Pathology’ 35. Alan Randall (1991), ‘The Value of Biodiversity’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisIn this controversial book Herman Daly, a leading commentator on the environment, offers lively criticism of existing work on ecological economics and the economics of ecology. The theme throughout the book is about changes in perspective, attitudes and policies required to avoid uneconomic growth - that is, the impoverishment that results when the environmental and social costs of growth exceed the benefits.Key issues addressed include: growth economics misunderstandings of thermodynamics economic development and population globalization money humans in the ecosystem. >This major new book will be of interest to economists, ecologists, environmentalists, public policy scholars and activists as well as social philosophers.Trade Review'This book will be essential reading for anyone who seeks answers to resolve the traditionally recognized conflicts between the economy and the environment. The answers this work proposes are not simple, but are well presented and necessary.' -- Bernardo Aguilar-Gonzalez, The Quarterly Review of Biology'Daly's book is an excellent and illustrating confrontation of the two important paradigms of scientific economics. It leaves the reader with the conviction that the still prevailing paradigm of neo-classical economics will have to be replaced if sustainability is to become a real objective of economic policy.' -- Gunther Weinschenck, Quarterly Journal of International AgricultureTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: On the Roots of Error in Growth Economics Part II: On Some Specific Errors in Growth Economics Part III: On Economists’ Misunderstanding of Thermodynamics Part IV: On Economic Development and Population Part V: On Globalization as Growth Economics’ Last Gasp Part VI: On Money Part VII: On Purpose Index

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Book SynopsisEcological Economics offers an authoritative overview of a rapidly developing discipline lying at the interface of economics, natural science and philosophy. This pioneering new book focuses on the concepts and methods required to integrate sciences and humanities in order to build ecological economics.Ecological Economics as a practice seeks to comprehend the evolving interactions between humans and the natural world. Ranging across the discipline from its conceptual and philosophical foundations to problems of global warming and waste production in the chemicals industry, the authors confidently address the central dilemma of control over nature by humans ignorant of the environmental impacts of their actions. Faber, Manstetten and Proops argue convincingly for an evolutionary approach to human-nature interactions and for the use of natural science concepts, such as entropy.Students and researchers concerned with environmental, resource and ecological economics will welcome Ecological Economics as a convincing and innovative approach to the creation of a discipline capable of contributing to a new relationship between human and non-human nature.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Part I: An Introduction to Ecological Economics 2. Ecological Economics: Rationale and Problem Areas 3. Towards an Open Future: Ignorance, Novelty and Evolution 4. The Dilemma of Modern Humans and Nature: An Exploration of the Faustian Imperative 5. Sustainable Development: The Roles of Science and Ethics Part II: Conceptual Foundations of Ecological Economics 6. Entropy: A Unifying Concept for Ecological Economics 7. The Use of the Entropy Concept in Ecological Economics 8. Evolution in Biology, Physics and Economics: A Conceptual Analysis 9. On the Conceptual Foundations of Ecological Economics: A Teleological Approach 10. Interdisciplinary Research Between Economists and Physical Scientists: Retrospect and Prospect Part III: Epistemological Perspectives on Ecological Economics 11. Humankind and the Environment: An Anatomy of Surprise and Ignorance 12. Experience, Knowledge and the Environment: An Epistemological Essay Part IV: Environmental and Resource Issues 13. Linking Ecology and Economy: Joint Production in the Chemical Industry 14. Reducing CO2 Emissions: Analysis and Policy References Indexes

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Book SynopsisThe management of South Africa's elephants is a lightning-rod for a whole range of associated values-based policy issues pertaining to elephant in South Africa. The results of this comprehensive work will pave a way to better resolution of these controversial issues. The research has been thoroughly peer-, stakeholder- and publicity reviewed. It contains contributions from an expert author team comprised of many of the world's leading specialists, including biologists, environmentalists, ethicists, economists and lawyers. This title explores a range of topics: synthsising, evaluating and summarizing knowledge on the biology and ecology of elephants, elephant effects on trees, other herbivores, birds and ecosystem function, management techniques and the social, economic and ethical implications various options. Elephant management is the first of its kind and topical both nationally and internationally. The anticipated readership is broad, including not only conservation policymakers and practitioners in South Africa and Africa, but also postgraduate students in many parts of the world, researchers and academics, conservation NGO's, and members of the public.The title is likely to become required reading for university courses on related topics.Table of ContentsForeword List of figures List of tables List of boxes About the authors and contributors List of reviewers Acronyms and abbreviations Preface Summary for policymakers Chapter 1 The elephant in South Africa: history and distribution Lead author: Jane Carruthers Author: André Boshoff Contributing authors: Rob Slotow, Harry C Biggs, Graham Avery, and Wayne Matthews Chapter 2 Elephant population biology and ecology Lead author: Rudi van Aarde Authors: Sam Ferreira, Tim Jackson, and Bruce Page Contributing authors: Yolande de Beer, Katie Gough, Rob Guldemond, Jessi Junker, Pieter Olivier, Theresia Ott, and Morgan Trimble Chapter 3 Effects of elephants on ecosystems and biodiversity Lead author: Graham IH Kerley Authors: Marietjie Landman, Laurence Kruger, and Norman Owen-Smith Contributing authors: Dave Balfour, Willem F de Boer, Angela Gaylard, Keith Lindsay, and Rob Slotow Chapter 4 Interactions between elephants and people Lead author: Wayne Twine Author: Hector Magome Chapter 5 Elephant translocation Lead author: Douw G Grobler Authors: J J van Altena, Johan H Malan, and Robin L Mackey Chapter 6 Reproductive control of elephants Lead author: Henk Bertschinger Author: Audrey Delsink Contributing authors: J J van Altena, Jay Kirkpatrick, Hanno Killian, Andre Ganswindt, Rob Slotow, and Guy Castley Chapter 7 Controlling the distribution of elephants Lead author: CC (Rina) Grant Authors: Roy Bengis, Dave Balfour, and Mike Peel Contributing authors: Warwick Davies-Mostert, Hanno Killian, Rob Little, Izak Smit, Marion Garaï, Michelle Henley, Brandon Anthony, and Peter Hartley Contributors to the fencing table: Meiring Prinsloo, Ian Bester, John Adendorf, Paul Havemann, Bill Howells, Duncan MacFadyen, and Tim Parker Chapter 8 Lethal management of elephants Lead author: Rob Slotow Authors: Ian Whyte and Markus Hofmeyr Contributing authors: Graham H I Kerley, Tony Conway, and Robert J Scholes Chapter 9 Ethical considerations in elephant management Lead author: H P P (Hennie) Lötter Authors: Michelle Henley, Saliem Fakir, and Michele Pickover Contributing author: Mogobe Ramose Chapter 10 The economic value of elephants Lead author: James Blignaut Authors: Martin de Wit and Jon Barnes Chapter 11 National and international law Lead author: Lisa Hopkinson Authors: Marius van Staden and Jeremy Ridl Chapter 12 Towards integrated decision making for elephant management Lead author: Harry C Biggs Author: Rob Slotow Contributing authors: Robert J Scholes, Jane Carruthers, Rudi van Aarde, Graham H I Kerley, Wayne Twine, Douw G Grobler, Henk Berthshinger, CC (Rina) Grant, HP P (Hennie) Lötter, James Blignaut, Lisa Hopkinson, and Mike Peel Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental and animal studies are rapidly growing areas of interest across a number of disciplines. Natures of Africa is one of the first edited volumes which encompasses transdisciplinary approachesto a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-fi ction, oral expression and digital media. The volume features new research from East Africa and Zimbabwe, as well as the ecocritical and eco-activist‘powerhouses’ of Nigeria and South Africa.The chapters engage one another conceptually andepistemologically without an enforced consensus of approach. In their conversation with dominant ideas about nature and animals, they reveal unexpected insights into forms of cultural expression of local communities in Africa. The analyses explore different apprehensions of the connections between humans, animals and the environment, and suggest alternative ways of addressing the challenges facing the continent. These include the problems of global warming, desertification, floods, animal extinctions and environmental destruction attendant upon fossil fuel extraction. There are few books that show how nature in Africa is represented, celebrated, mourned or commoditised. Natures of Africa weavestogether studies of narratives – from folklore, travel writing, novels and popular songs – with the insights of poetry and contemporary reflections of Africa on the worldwide web. The chapters test disciplinary and conceptual boundaries, highlighting the ways in which the environmental concerns of African communities cannot be disentangled from social, cultural and political questions.This volume draws on and will appeal to scholars and teachers of oral tradition and indigenous cultures, literature, religion, sociologyand anthropology, environmental and animal studies, as well as media and digital cultures in an African context.Table of Contents Foreword Chapter 1: “Here is some baobab leaf!”: Sunjata, foodways and biopiracy Chapter 2: Shona as a land-based nature-culture: A study of the (re)construction of Shona land mythology in popular songs Chapter 3: The environment as significant Other: The green nature of Shona indigenous religion Chapter 4: Animal praise poetry and the Samburu desire to survive Chapter 5: Voluntourism paradoxes: Strategic visual tropes of the natural on South African voluntourism websites Chapter 6: Toward ecocriticism in Africa: Literary aesthetics in African environmental literature Chapter 7: Critical intersections: Ecocriticism, globalised cities and African narrative, with a focus on K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents Chapter 8: Navigating Gariep country: Writing nature and culture in Borderline by William Dicey Chapter 9: Negotiating identity in a vanishing geography: Home, environment and displacement in Helon Habila’s Oil on Water Chapter 10: Animal narrators in Patrice Nganang’s Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle and Alain Mabanckou’s Memoirs of a Porcupine Chapter 11: Nature, animism and humanity in Anglophone Nigerian poetry Chapter 12: Animals, nostalgia, and Zimbabwe’s rural landscape in the poetry of Chenjerai Hove and Musaemura Zimunya About the Authors Acknowledgements Notes

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Book Synopsis2020 Award for Distinguished Book from the Animals & Society Section of the American Sociological Association One in five people in the United States is a birdwatcher, yet the popular understanding of birders reduces them to comical stereotypes, obsessives who only have eyes for their favorite rare species. In real life, however, birders are paying equally close attention to the world around them, observing the devastating effects of climate change and mass extinction, while discovering small pockets of biodiversity in unexpected places. For the Birds offers readers a glimpse behind the binoculars and reveals birders to be important allies in the larger environmental conservation movement. With a wealth of data from in-depth interviews and over three years of observing birders in the field, environmental sociologist Elizabeth Cherry argues that birders learn to watch wildlife in ways that make an invaluable contribution to contemporary conservation efforts. She investigates how birders develop a “naturalist gaze” that enables them to understand the shared ecosystem that intertwines humans and wild animals, an appreciation that motivates them to participate in citizen science projects and wildlife conservation. Trade Review"Without qualification, For the Birds will make a substantial and significant contribution to sociology. Cherry’s writing style and conversational tone take us through the training of a neophyte birder into a level of expertise all the while keeping the book extremely readable, lively and accessible." -- Lisa Jean Moore * author of Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee *“With its eagle-eyed sights on birders in their natural habitat, Elizabeth Cherry’s beautiful ethnography reveals the reverence and concern that citizen scientists feel for these charismatic creatures. Like the naturalist gaze itself, For the Birds is equal parts instructive and pleasurable.” -- David Grazian * author of American Zoo: A Sociological Safari *For the Birds by Elizabeth Cherry included in Publishers Weekly's Fall 2019 Adult Announcements * Publishers Weekly *"Recommended." * Choice *"With a wealth of data from in-depth interviews and over three years of observing birders in the field, environmental sociologist Elizabeth Cherry argues that birders learn to watch wildlife in ways that make an invaluable contribution to contemporary conservation efforts. She investigates how birders develop a 'naturalist gaze' that enables them to understand the shared ecosystem that intertwines humans and wild animals, an appreciation that motivates them to participate in citizen science projects and wildlife conservation." * ASA Environmental Sociology newsletter *"A major contribution." * Social Forces *"For the Birds provides both an interesting and accessible study of the birding community. Cherry provides deep and colorful description of birders and allows the community to speak directly to the reader by using interview quotes throughout the book. We have much to learn from birders about making the common uncommon and looking at our own backyards through a pair of binoculars." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Becoming a Birder 2 The Naturalist Gaze 3 Common Birds and the Social Construction of Nature 4 Wilderness, Wildness, and Mobility 5 Good Birds, Bad Birds, and Animal Agency 6 Birding and Citizen Science 7 Birding as a Conservation Movement Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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