Recent international appeals for sustainable development policies have renewed efforts to explore the common ground between economics and ecology. This volume presents a collection of papers from leading researchers around the world, who evaluate the analytical foundations and empirical systems that are being developed to integrate economic and environmental indicators. These specialists identify key data requirements and modeling systems. Economists, ecologists, and policy makers will find this work introducing integrated modeling systems thought-provoking and useful.
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Recent international appeals for sustainable development policies have renewed efforts to explore the common ground between economics and ecology.
Preface Background Economics, Ecology, and the Art of Integration by J. Walter Milon and Jason F. Shogren Old Lessons and New Contexts in Economic-Ecological Modeling by Clifford S. Russell Ecosystem Functions, Economics, and the Ability to Function by Thomas D. Crocker Micro Level Indicators Integrated Ecological Economic Systems Modeling: Theoretical Issues and Practical Applications by Robert Costanza, Lisa Wainger, and Nancy Bockstael CEEPES: An Evolving System for Agroenvironmental Policy by Aziz Bouzaher, Richard Cabe, Stanley R. Johnson, Andrew Manale, and Jason F. Shogren Integration of Economic and Ecological Modeling for Agriculture in the Netherlands by Nico J. P. Hoogervorst Dynamic Analysis of Economic Development and Natural Environment on the Greek Sporades Islands by Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh Macro Level Indicators Environmental and Natural Resources in National Economic Accounts by J. Walter Milon Towards a System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounts (SEEA) by Peter Bartelmus Accounting for the Environment in Scandinavia by Bengt Kristrom National and GIS-Based Regional Resource Accounting in Australia by Michael D. Young, Paul Walker, Thilak Mallawaarachchi, and Bod Smyth Epilogue by Jason F. Shogren and J. Walter Milon Bibliography Index
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Integrated analysis of economic and ecological indicators is necessary in order to achieve sustainable development.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780275949839
Publisert
1995-03-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Praeger Publishers Inc
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
232

Biographical note

J. WALTER MILON is Professor of Natural Resource and Environmental Economics in the Food and Resource Economics Department at the University of Florida, Gainesville. His primary research interests are environmental resource valuation, fisheries and marine systems, and environmental policy. He served as chair of the Resource Policy Consortium in 1993-94 and is currently an associate editor of Marine Resource Economics.

JASON F. SHOGREN is an Associate Professor of Economics at Iowa State whose major field of interest is environmental and resource economics. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and serves on the Editorial Board of Environmental and Resource Economics. He received the 1992 Iowa State Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Research and was recently appointed to the Advisory Board of the new School of Environmental and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming.