Sustainable wellbeing futures a research and action agenda for ecological economics

"Climate disruption, overpopulation, biodiversity loss, the threats of financial collapse, large-scale damage to our natural and social environments and eroding democracy are all becoming critically important concerns. The editors of this timely book assert that these problems are not separate,...

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Other Authors: Costanza, Robert (Editor), Erickson, Jon D. (Editor), Farley, Joshua (Editor), Kubiszewski, Ida (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Northampton Edward Elgar Publishing 2020, 2020
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Collection: Edward Elgar eBooks Collection Business & Economics - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Part IV: Integrated, dynamic analysis and modelling of socio-ecological systems
  • 19. Integrated ecological economic modeling: what is it good for? / Alexey Voinov, Pascal Perez, Juan Carlos Castilla-Rho, and Daniel C. Kenny
  • 20. Designing participatory decision support systems: towards meta-decision making analytics in the next generation of ecological economics / Asim Zia and Roel Boumans
  • 21. A research agenda for ecological macroeconomics / Peter A. Victor and Tim Jackson
  • Part V: Making the transition
  • 22. Local economies: leading the way to an ecological economy / Sabine O'Hara and Daniel Baker
  • 23. Systemic design and systemic crisis in the United States: the pluralist commonwealth / Gar Alperovitz and Joseph Ament
  • 24. Creating a wellbeing economy alliance (weall) to motivate and facilitate the transition / Robert Costanza, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Ida Kubiszewski, Deborah Markowitz, Christopher Orr, Katherine Trebeck, and Stewart Wallis
  • 13. Cultural evolution, multi-level selection, and institutions for cooperation / Joshua Farley, John Gowdy, and Stephen Marshall
  • 14. Moral and ethical foundations for ecological economics / Dan Spethmann and Valerie A. Luzadis
  • 15. Governing for sustainable development: rethinking governance and ecological economics / Christopher Koliba, Megan Egler, and Stephen Posner
  • 16. Money, interest rates and accumulation on a finite planet: revisiting the 'monetary growth imperative' through institutionalist approaches / Romain Svartzman, Joseph Ament, David Barmes, Jon D. Erickson, Joshua Farley, Charles Guay-Boutet, and Nicolas Kosoy
  • 17. The nature and role of business in an ecological economy / Mairi-Jane V. Fox, Abigail B. Schneider, Marilyn T. Lucas, and Beth Schaefer Caniglia
  • 18. Principles of stakeholder engagement for ecological economics / Madhavi Venkatesan, Jon D. Erickson, and Christine Carmichael
  • 7. Frameworks and systems thinking for measuring and achieving sustainable wellbeing / Elizabeth M. B. Doran, Lindsay Barbieri, Ida Kubiszewski, Kate Pickett, Thomas Dietz, Michael Abrams, Richard Wilkinson, Robert Costanza, Stephen C. Farber, and Jeannine Valcour
  • 8. How ecosystem services research can advance ecological economics principles / Rachelle K. Gould, Taylor H. Ricketts, Richard B. Howarth, Svenja Telle, Tatiana Gladkikh, Stephen Posner, Jesse Gourevitch, and Yuki Yoshida
  • 9. Wellbeing in the more-than-human world / Kristian Brevik, John Adams, Benjamin Dube, Lindsay Barbieri, and Gabriel Yahya Haage
  • 10. From measurement to application: wellbeing indicators in socio-ecological systems / Kati Gallagher, Michael Moser, Mairi-Jane V. Fox, and Jane Kolodinsky
  • 11. The struggle for equality and sustainability / Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
  • 12. Human health and ecological economics / Martin Hensher
  • Part III: The institutions we require
  • Contents: Foreword by Jacqueline Mcglade
  • Preface
  • In memoriam: Eric Zencey 1953-2019
  • 1. Introduction: what is ecological economics and why do we need it now more than ever / Robert Costanza, Jon D. Erickson, Joshua Farley, and Ida Kubiszewski
  • Part I: The future we want
  • 2. Creating positive futures for humanity on earth / Robert Costanza, Elizabeth M. B. Doran, Tatiana Gladkikh, Ida Kubiszewski, Valerie A. Luzadis, and Eric Zencey
  • 3. Work, labour, and regenerative production / Kaitlin Kish and Stephen Quilley
  • 4. The role of technology in achieving the future we want / Stewart Wallis, Lindsay Barbieri, Alice Damiano, and Matthew Burke
  • 5. Ecological economics in China: from origins, to inertia, to rejuvenation / Xi Ji
  • 6. Taking evolution seriously: the role of ecological economics in escaping the anthropocene and reaching for the ecozoic / Peter G. Brown and John Gowdy
  • Part II: Measuring and achieving wellbeing
  • Part VI: Surveys of the larger community about the research agenda
  • 25. Ecological economic goals from emerging scholars / Kaitlin Kish and Sam Bliss
  • 26. Assessing ecological economics at 30: results from a survey of isee members / Benjamin Dube
  • Index