The product of a workshop held in Costa Rica, following a conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Socio-ecological principles for a sustainable society / John Holmberg, Karl-Henrik Rob ert, Karl-Erik Eriksson -- Consumption : value added, physical transformation, and welfare / Herman E. Daly -- Complexity, problem solving, and sustainable societies / Joseph A. Tainter -- From ecological economics to productive ecology : perspectives on sustainable development from the south / Enrique Leff -- Social and ethical dimensions of ecological economics / Anil Gupta. Envisioning a sustainable world / Donella Meadows -- Towards economics for environmental sustainability / Paul Ekins -- Ecological and economic distribution conflicts / Juan Martinez-Alier, Martin O'Connor -- Technological intensity, technological quality, and sustainable development / Gilberto C. Gallopin -- Renewable resource appropriation by cities / Carl Folke, Jonas Larsson, Julie Sweitzer. Emergent complexity and procedural rationality : post-normal science for sustainability / Martin O'Connor, Sylvie Faucheux, Geraldine Froger ... {et al.} -- Integrating spatially explicit ecological and economic models : theory and application in the Patuxent River watershed, Maryland / Robert Costanza, Lisa Wainger, Nancy Bockstael -- Ecological economics : the second stage / Faye Duchin -- Modeling the dynamics of resource depletion, substitution, recycling, and technical change in extractive industries / Matthias Ruth, Cutler J. Cleveland. Institutional change and development towards sustainability / Johannas B. Opschoor -- Creating the institutional setting for sustainability in Latin America / Marc. J. Dourojeanni -- Applying agroecology to improve peasant farming systems in Latin America : an impact assessment of NGO strategies / Miguel A. Altieri, Andres Yurjevic, Jean Marc Von der Weid ... {et al.} -- Property rights, people, and environment / Susan S. Hanna -- Will new property rights regimes in central and eastern Europe serve nature conservation purposes? / Tomasz Zylicz. Valuing social sustainability : environmental recuperation on Fevela hillsides in Rio de Janeiro / Peter H. May, Marilia Pastuk -- Resources planning should integrate conservation and development needs : the case of Tegucigalpa's water requirements / Carlos A. Quesada-Mateo -- Political dimension of implementing environmental reform : lessons from Costa Rica / David Kaimowitz, Olman Segura -- Envisioning sustainable alternatives within the framework of the UNCED process / Alicia Barcena, Diomar Silveira.