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Visions, Values, Valuation And The Need For An Ecological Economics, Robert Costanza
Visions, Values, Valuation And The Need For An Ecological Economics, Robert Costanza
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Practical problem solving in complex, humandominated ecosystems requires the integration of three elements: (1) active and ongoing envisioning of both how the world works and how we would like the world to be, (2) systematic analysis appropriate to and consistent with the vision, and (3) implementation appropriate to the vision. Scientists generally focus on only the second of these steps, but integrating all three is essential to both good science and effective management. Subjective values enter in the vision element, both in terms of the formation of broad social goals and in the creation of a preanalytic vision,which necessarily precedes …
Government Sponsored Perversity. Review Of: Perverse Subsidies: How Tax Dollars Can Undercut The Environment And The Economy By Norman Myers And Jennifer Kent, Robert Costanza
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Book review of Perverse Subsidies: How Tax Dollars Can Undercut the Environment and the Economy. Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent. Island Press, Washington (DC), 2001.
Economics As A Life Science: Review Of You Can't Eat Gnp: Economics As If Ecology Mattered By Eric A. Davidson And The Nature Of Economies By Jane Jacobs, Robert Costanza
Economics As A Life Science: Review Of You Can't Eat Gnp: Economics As If Ecology Mattered By Eric A. Davidson And The Nature Of Economies By Jane Jacobs, Robert Costanza
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Two Book Reviews: You Can?t Eat GNP: Economics As If Ecology Mattered by Eric A. Davidson and The Nature of Economies by Jane Jacobs