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Main Title Economics and ecology : united for a sustainable world /
Author Beaton, Russ.
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Maser, Chris.
Publisher CRC Press,
Year Published 2012
OCLC Number 641536924
ISBN 9781439852958; 1439852952
Subjects Sustainable development--Citizen participation ; Environmental economics ; Globalization--Economic aspects ; natural resources ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Umweltvertr aglichkeit ; Umwelt okonomie
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http://www.crcnetbase.com/isbn/978-1-4398-5310-8
CRCnetBASE http://www.crcnetbase.com/isbn/9781439853108
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ELBM  HC79.E5B395 2012 AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 09/09/2013
Collation xxvii, 191 pages ; 25 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Notes "This reference discusses the problems of ecological and economic crises and explains how they are the product of the overextension of resources. The book summarizes the standard approach of economics and integrates it with ecology. It explains the connection between financial collapse and climate change and emphasizes that movement along the path towards economic, environmental, and cultural sustainability begins with the individual. The authors provide an entire chapter of advice on reconciling economics and ecology and reaching goals of sustainability"-- "Preface Earth is our home, and it is in crisis. There are two sides to this crisis--our economy on the one hand, and its effect on the ecology of our home planet on the other. Our economy, the human-constructed part of our home, represents the collection of manufactured artifacts, institutions, and technologies with which the human species, over the millennia, has designed with pride and used with arrogance to wrest a material existence from a wondrously bountiful but ultimately finite planet. Despite conventional thinking in the industrialized world that typical monetary and fiscal manipulations will restore order and put us back on the path of economic growth, our economy is in danger of collapse. Furthermore, over the last few decades, we have experienced incessant globalization of the resource, manufacturing, and financial systems; and this serves to extend the threatened collapse to the entire industrialized world, and not simply to the economy of the United States. Meanwhile, the natural environment is similarly sending unmistakable warnings. Glaciers melt, oceans are becoming dangerously acidic, species become extinct, natural habitats are diminishing, and weather patterns become increasingly severe and unpredictable each year. The stress on resource systems of all kinds threatens to shrink the carrying capacity of the planet, even as we call upon it for increased contributions to support a burgeoning human population. The approach of those in power, whether their base is in the public or private sector, has historically been to particularize such problems, isolate and treat each as separate issues, and attempt band-aid measures acceptable to a public oriented to business-as-usual"-- Section 1. Setting the stage -- section 2. Economics in theory and practice -- section 3. Reconciliation and looking to the future.
Place Published Boca Raton
Title Ser Add Ent Social-environmental sustainability series.
PUB Date Free Form 2012
Series Title Untraced Social-environmental sustainability series
BIB Level m
Cataloging Source OCLC/T
LCCN 2011027736
Merged OCLC records 751855063
OCLC Time Stamp 20130905131048
Language eng
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OCLC Rec Leader 03992cam 2200481 a 45020