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Full-Text Articles in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Globalization And The Sustainability Of Human Health: An Ecological Perspective, Robert Costanza, A. J. Mcmichael, Bert Bolin, Gretchen C. Daily, Carl Folke, Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling, Elisabet Lindgren, Bo Niklasson
Globalization And The Sustainability Of Human Health: An Ecological Perspective, Robert Costanza, A. J. Mcmichael, Bert Bolin, Gretchen C. Daily, Carl Folke, Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling, Elisabet Lindgren, Bo Niklasson
Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations
The last half-century has seen momentous and accelerating changes in humankind's economic activities, political relations, and social and demographic profile. A prominent feature of this change is the increasing scale of human impact on Earth's natural biophysical systems: the climate system, stratospheric ozone, biodiversity, terrestrial and marine food-producing ecosystems, and the great cycles of water, nitrogen, and sulfur (Meyer 1996, Vitousek et al. 1997). These systems sustain the conditions on which life depends, and their weakening may therefore have profound long-term implications for human population health (McMichael 1993, Last 1997).
Four Visions Of The Century Ahead: Will It Be Star Trek, Ecotopia, Big Government Or Mad Max?, Robert Costanza
Four Visions Of The Century Ahead: Will It Be Star Trek, Ecotopia, Big Government Or Mad Max?, Robert Costanza
Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations
Lays out different visions as to what the 21st century will be like. Where these visions are based; Default technological optimist vision; Technological skeptic's nightmare; War between public interest and private enterprise; Low-consumption sustainable vision; How society should decide among the visions; Challenges.
The Selfish Book. Review Of: The Origins Of Virtue: Human Instincts And The Evolution Of Cooperation By Matt Ridley, Robert Costanza
The Selfish Book. Review Of: The Origins Of Virtue: Human Instincts And The Evolution Of Cooperation By Matt Ridley, Robert Costanza
Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations
Book Review of The Selfish Book. Review of: The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation by Matt Ridley
Ecological Tax Reform, Robert Costanza, Steve Bernow, Herman E. Daly, Robert Degennaro, Paul Hawken
Ecological Tax Reform, Robert Costanza, Steve Bernow, Herman E. Daly, Robert Degennaro, Paul Hawken
Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations
Provides an overview detailing the benefits of ecological tax reform. What ecological tax reform would include; Origin of ecological taxes; Implementation in the United States and Europe; Specifics on an ecological tax reform proposal; The need to phase in tax reforms gradually.
Ecological Economics: Reintegrating The Study Of Humans And Nature, Robert Costanza
Ecological Economics: Reintegrating The Study Of Humans And Nature, Robert Costanza
Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations
Ecological economics is a transdisciplinary effort to link the natural and social sciences broadly, and especially ecology and economics. The goal is to develop a deeper understanding of the complex linkages between ecological and economic systems, and to use that understanding to develop effective policies that will lead to a world that is ecologically sustainable, has a fair distribution of resources (both among groups and generations of humans and between humans and other species), and efficiently allocates scarce resources including natural capital. This will require new approaches that are comprehensive, adaptive, integrative, multi-scale, and pluralistic, and that acknowledge the huge …
An Unbalanced Debate. Review Of: Scarcity Or Abundance: A Debate On The Environment By Norman Myers And Julian Simon, Robert Costanza
An Unbalanced Debate. Review Of: Scarcity Or Abundance: A Debate On The Environment By Norman Myers And Julian Simon, Robert Costanza
Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations
Book Review of Scarcity or Abundance? A Debate on the Environment by Norman Myers and Julian Simon
Modeling Complex Ecological Economic Systems: Toward An Evolutionary, Dynamic Understanding Of People And Nature, Robert Costanza, Lisa Wainger, Carl Folke, Karl-Göran Mäler
Modeling Complex Ecological Economic Systems: Toward An Evolutionary, Dynamic Understanding Of People And Nature, Robert Costanza, Lisa Wainger, Carl Folke, Karl-Göran Mäler
Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations
Recent understanding about system dynamics and predictability that has emerged from the study of complex systems is creating new tools for modeling interactions between anthropogenic and natural systems. A range of techniques has become available through advances in computer speed and accessibility and by implementing a broad, interdisciplinary systems view.
Modeling Coastal Landscape Dynamics, Robert Costanza, Fred Hal Sklar, Mary L. White
Modeling Coastal Landscape Dynamics, Robert Costanza, Fred Hal Sklar, Mary L. White
Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations
Examines methods used to predict the way ecological systems respond to human modifications. Coastal marshes; Process-based dynamic spatial ecosystem simulation models; Coastal ecological landscape spatial simulation model; Scenario analysis.
Social Traps And Environmental Policy, Robert Costanza
Social Traps And Environmental Policy, Robert Costanza
Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations
In recent years, scientific understanding and public awareness of environmental problems have increased tremendously. Yet our ability to manage these problems effectively has in too many cases gotten worse, not better. By studying real-world social traps and laboratory examples, we can learn effective escapes.
Simulation Modeling On The Macintosh Using Stella, Robert Costanza
Simulation Modeling On The Macintosh Using Stella, Robert Costanza
Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations
STELLA (Structured Thinking Experimental Learning Laboratory with Animation) is a computer application for Macintosh that allows model building for the biologist.