Ecological Economics
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Heat, Greed and Human Need
Ian Gough
This book builds an essential bridge between climate change and social policy. Combining ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long-term, interdisciplinary analysis of the prospects for sust...eBook:Find out more$29.56
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Economics and Environmental Change
Clement A. Tisdell
In this innovative book, Clement Tisdell adopts a holistic approach, combining economic, social, biophysical and historical considerations to analyse the economic origins of major contemporary environmental problems, especially those ass...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Methods for Sustainability Research
Edited by Janette Hartz-Karp, Dora Marinova
This book offers a collection of methods and approaches aimed at resolving some of humanity’s most pressing problems on a local and global level. Many of the methods are practical, with straightforward application and demonstrated positi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Beyond Uneconomic Growth
Edited by Joshua Farley, Deepak Malghan
This engaging book brings together leading ecological economists to collectively present a definitive case for looking beyond economic growth as the sole panacea for the world’s ecological predicament. Grounded in physics, ecology, and t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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From Uneconomic Growth to a Steady-State Economy
Herman E. Daly
In this important book, Herman E. Daly lays bare the weaknesses of growth economics and explains why, in contrast, a steady-state economy is both necessary and desirable. Through the course of the book, Daly develops the basic concept an...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers, Forest Conservation and Climate Change
Silvia Irawan, Luca Tacconi
Intergovernmental fiscal transfers (IFTs) are an innovative way to create incentives for local public actors to support conservation. This book contributes to the debate about how to conserve tropical forests by implementing mechanisms f...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Putting Sustainability into Practice
Edited by Emily H. Kennedy, Maurie J. Cohen, Naomi Krogman
Putting Sustainability into Practice offers a robust and interdisciplinary understanding of contemporary consumption routines that challenges conventional approaches to social change premised on behavioral economics and social psychology...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Sustainable Automobility
Paul Nieuwenhuis
If we are part of nature, then so is everything we make. This unique book explores this notion using the example of the car, how it is made and used and especially how we relate to it, with a view to creating a more sustainable automobil...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability
Tom Dedeurwaerdere
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. The dynamism of science has been catalytic for human prosperity in recent history. Conventio... -
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Valuing Ecosystem Services
Edited by K. N. Ninan
Conserving biodiversity and ecosystem services is critical to promoting human welfare and sustainable development. Ecosystem services valuation has therefore recently assumed prominence in research and policy circles. In this illuminatin...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Human Values and Biodiversity Conservation
Clement A. Tisdell
This pioneering book explores the influence of human values on the willingness of individuals to pay for the conservation of individual wildlife species (and classes of these), to be for or against their survival, and to favour or oppose...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Innovations in Sustainable Consumption
Edited by Maurie J. Cohen, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Philip J. Vergragt
This timely volume recognizes that traditional policy approaches to reduce human impacts on the environment through technological change – for example, emphasizing resource efficiency and the development of renewable energy sources – are...eBook:Find out more$43.96