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Building a sustainable and desirable economy-in-society-in-nature / Robert Constanza, Gar Alperovitz, Herman E. Daly, Joshua Farley, Carol Franco, Tim Jackson, Ida Kubiszewski, Juliet Schor, and Peter Victor.

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The world has changed dramatically. We no longer live in a world relatively empty of humans and their artifacts. We now live in the "Anthropocene" era in a full world where humans are dramatically altering our ecological life-support system. Our traditional economic concepts and models wer...

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Main Authors: Constanza, Robert (Author), Alperovitz, Gar (Author), Daly, Herman E. (Author), Farley, Joshua C., 1963- (Author), Franco, Carol (Author), Jackson, Tim, 1957- (Author), Kubiszewski, Ida (Author), Schor, Juliet (Author), Victor, Peter A., 1946- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Economic development > Environmental aspects.
Environmental policy.
Natural resources.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Rationale and objectives
  • 2. What would a sustainable and desirable economy-in-society-in-nature look like?
  • 3. A redesign of "the economy" recognizing its embeddedness in society and nature
  • 4. Example policy reforms
  • 5. Are these policies consistent and feasible?
  • 6. Conclusions.

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