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1. Good Governance, Scale and Power

   A Case Study of North Sea Fisheries

   By Liza Griffin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   In recent years there have been several alarming predictions about the future of the planet’s fish stocks. As a result, many national governments and supranational institutions, including the European Union, have instituted reforms designed to mitigate the crisis. This book examines the discourse...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Climate Economics

   The State of the Art

   By Frank Ackerman, Elizabeth Stanton

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   Climate science paints a bleak picture: The continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions is increasingly likely to cause irreversible and catastrophic effects. Urgent action is needed to prepare for the initial rounds of climatic change, which are already unstoppable. While the opportunity to avert...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Post-Kyoto Climate Governance

   Confronting the Politics of Scale, Ideology and Knowledge

   By Asim Zia

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   In the midst of human-induced global climate change, powerful industrialized nations and rapidly industrializing nations are still heavily dependent on fossil fuels. Even if we arrive at a Hubbert’s peak for oil extraction in the 21st century, the availability of technologically recoverable coal...

   Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. The Economic Value of Landscapes

   Edited by C. Martijn van der Heide, Wim Heijman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes. What exactly constitutes and determines the value of a landscape? It focuses on the value of landscapes in its...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
5. Environment and Employment

   A Reconciliation

   Edited by Philip Lawn

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   Mounting evidence suggests that GDP growth is damaging the natural environment and unlikely to be ecologically sustainable in the long-run. At the same time, an annual GDP growth rate of around three percent is regarded as the minimum necessary to prevent unemployment from escalating. Clearly, a...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
6. Ecology and Power

   Struggles over Land and Material Resources in the Past, Present and Future

   Edited by Alf Hornborg, Brett Clark, Kenneth Hermele

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   Power and social inequality shape patterns of land use and resource management. This book explores this relationship from different perspectives, illuminating the complexity of interactions between human societies and nature. Most of the contributors use the perspective of "political ecology" as a...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
7. Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange

   Fetishism in a Zero-Sum World

   By Alf Hornborg

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   In modern society, we tend to have faith in technology. But is our concept of ‘technology’ itself a cultural illusion? This book challenges the idea that humanity as a whole is united in a common development toward increasingly efficient technologies. Instead it argues that modern technology...

   Published October 17th 2012 by Routledge
8. Complexity and Sustainability

   By Jennifer Wells

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   Complex dynamic system studies have been studied explicitly in the natural sciences, and most only implicitly throughout other fields. Yet much great social theory and philosophy is in fact based in complexity, and important concepts like postmodernism, risk, and collapse all stem from complexity....

   Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
9. Beyond Reductionism

   A Passion for Interdisciplinarity

   Edited by Katharine Farrell, Tommaso Luzzati, Sybille van den Hove

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   This is a book about the work of scientists in the era of the Anthropocene: where human beings appear to have become a driving force in the evolution of the planet. It is a diverse collection of empirical, methodological and theoretical chapters concerned with the practice of interdisciplinary...

   Published August 1st 2012 by Routledge
10. The Planet in 2050

    The Lund Discourse of the Future

    Edited by Jill Jäger, Sarah Cornell

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

    In 2050, the billions of people living on Earth have found a way to manage the planetary system effectively. Everyone has access to adequate food, shelter, and clean water. Human health is no longer considered outside of the health of the ecosystems in which people live. Ecological awareness is an...

    Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge