Ecological Economics from the Ground Up (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Healy, Hali; Gerber, Julien-François; Walter, Mariana; Temper, Leah; Martínez-Alier, Joan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ecological Economics from the Ground Up takes a unique and much-needed bottom-up approach to teaching ecological economics and political ecology, using case studies that focus on a wide range of internationally relevant topics, to teach the principles, concepts, methods and tools of these fields, which are seen as increasingly important in the context of the current triple social, economic and environmental crisis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135128777
• Artikelnr.: 38264528

Autorenporträt

Hali Healy is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at King's College, London, United Kingdom. She also coordinates an online course in Ecological Economics and Political Ecology for Environmental Justice Organizations. Joan Martínez-Alier is Professor of Economics and Economic History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He is also a founding member and past president of the International Society for Ecological Economics. Leah Temper is a researcher in Environmental History and Ecological Economics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, and a freelance environmental journalist and video artist. Mariana Walter is a researcher and PhD candidate at ICTA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Her thesis addresses mining conflicts in Latin America. Julien-François Gerber is Visiting Fellow at the Department of Economics, Harvard University, USA. He is interested in plantation studies, agrarian change, political ecology, and institutional and ecological economics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Part I: Social Metabolism 1. Aid, Social Metabolism
and Social Conflict in the Nicobar Islands 2. The Mining Enclave of the
Cordillera del Condor 3. The Manta-Manaus Project 4. High Speed Transport
Infrastructure in Italy 5. Life and livelihood in Kenya's Tana Delta 6.
South Africa's Minerals-Energy Complex Part II: Participation and
Institutions 7. Local Governance and Environment Investments in Hiware
Bazar, India 8. Participatory Forest Management in Mendha Lekha, India 9.
Forestry and Communities in Cameroon 10. The Waste Crisis in Campania,
Italy 11. The Sedentarization of Tibetan Nomads Part III: Valuation and
Environmental Policy 12. Nautical Tourism Development in the Lastovo
Islands Nature Park 13. Local Communities and Management of the Djerdap
Protected Area in Serbia 14. Payments for Ecosystem Services in India from
the Bottom-Up 15. The Potential of Redd and Legal Reserve Compensation in
Mato Grosso, Brazil 16. Environmental Justice and Ecological Debt in
Belgium 17. Multidimensional valuation for socio-ecological conflict
analysis in Costa Rica 18. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity 19.
Conclusion