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Title Investing in natural capital : the ecological economics approach to sustainability / edited by AnnMari Jansson [and others] ; technical editor, Sandra Koskoff ; foreword by Olof Johansson.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [1994]
©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 504 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Series International Society for Ecological Economics series
International Society for Ecological Economics series.
Note Contributions to a workshop held in August 1992 near Stockholm, Sweden.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Investing in natural capital--why, what, and how? / Carl Folke, et al. -- Operationalizing sustainable development by investing in natural capital / Herman E. Daly -- Ecological economics and the carrying capacity of earth / Paul R. Ehrlich -- New science and new investments for a sustainable biosphere / C.S. Holling -- Ecosystem properties as a basis for sustainability / AnnMari Jansson, Bengt-Owe Jansson -- Sustenance and sustainability : how can we preserve and consume without major conflict? / Ralph C. d'Arge -- Investing in cultural capital for sustainable use of natural capital / Fikret Berkes, Carl Folke -- Environmental functions and the economic value of natural ecosystems / Rudolf S. de Groot -- Rebuilding a humane and ethical decision system for investing in natural capital / Frank B. Golley -- Re-allocating work between human and natural capital in agriculture : examples from India and the United States / Cutler J. Cleveland -- The emergy of natural capital / Howard T. Odum -- Modeling of ecological and economic systems at the watershed scale for sustainable development / V. Krysanova, I. Kaganovich -- Multiple use of environmental resources : a household production function approach to valuing natural capital / Karl-Goran Maler, et al. -- Strategies for environmentally sound economic development / Faye Duchin, Glenn-Marie Lange.
Sea-level rise and coastal wetlands in the U.K. : mitigation strategies for sustainable management / R.K. Turner, P. Doktor, N. Adger -- Natural capital and the economics of environment and development / Edward B. Barbier -- Can we justify sustainability? New challenges facing ecological economics / Dennis M. King -- Renewable resources as natural capital : the fishery / Colin W. Clark, Gordon R. Munro -- Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity : measuring the natural capital requirements of the human economy / William E. Rees, Mathis Wackernagel.
Three general policies to achieve sustainability / Robert Costanza -- Implementing environmental policies in Central and Eastern Europe / Tomasz Zylicz -- Energy production, consumption, environment, and sustainability / James J. Zucchetto -- Economic conversion, engineers, and sustainability / Martha W. Gilliland, Jeffrey P. Kash -- Public policy : challenge to ecological economics / Stephen Viederman -- Investing in natural and human capital in developing countries / Olman Segura, James K. Boyce.
Summary Natural capital - both nonrenewable resources and the renewable resources that make up ecosystems - is potentially endangered by the human process of adapting and modifying the world around us. The results of a workshop held following the second biannual conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics, Investing in Natural Capital emphasizes the essential connections between natural ecosystems and human socioeconomic systems, and the importance of ensuring that both remain resilient. Specific chapters deal with methodology, case studies, and policy questions and offer a thorough exploration of this provocative and important transdisciplinary alternative to conventional solutions to environmental problems.
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Subject Sustainable development -- Congresses.
Sustainable development.
Natural resources -- Management -- Congresses.
Natural resources -- Management.
Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses.
Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
Ecology -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
Ecology -- Economic aspects.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Jansson, A.-M.
Other Form: Print version: (DLC) 94007528 (OCoLC)29954584
ISBN 9781610912815 electronic book
1610912810 electronic book
1559633166 paperback alk paper
9781559633161 paperback alk paper