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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.
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- 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), Brazil
Table 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
