Ecological economics : the science and management of sustainability / edited by Robert Costanza ; technical editor, Lisa Wainger.

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Ecological economics is a new transdisciplinary approach to understanding and managing the ecology and economics of our world for sustainability on local, regional, and global scales. The previous isolation of these two fields has led to economic and environmental policies that have been mutually destructive rather than reinforcing in the long term. This book brings together these two disciplines in chapters covering the basic worldview of ecological economics; accounting, modeling, and analysis of ecological economicl systems; and necessary institutional changes and case studies.

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Ecological economics, the new fusion of two previously separate but influential fields in environmental science and policy, is already offering fresh insights into both the nature of and solutions to environmental problems. Edited by one of the founders of ecological economics (Center for Environmental and Estuarine Studies, University of Maryland), this book is the product of a 1990 workshop. Containing some 32 different essays by 41 different contributors from 9 different countries, this is a valuable, path-breaking collection. Following an introductory essay on the goals and content of ecological economics, the remainder of the book is divided into three parts: Developing an Ecological Economic World View (10 essays); Accounting, Modeling and Analysis (8 essays); and Institutional Changes and Case Studies (13 essays). Though this volume has some of the variable quality and heterogeneous content problems that typically plague publications based upon broadly defined workshops, no library committed to maintaining its environmental studies collection should fail to acquire this book.-T. H. Tietenberg, Colby College