Drawing on the biophysical sciences, public policy, geography, economics, exploratory research and the behavioural sciences, this volume offers reviews and prescriptions for the future of ecological economics, placing particular emphasis on complex sustainability problems. reorientations and openings, and frameworks and applications. To begin, the authors illustrate the limitations of ecological economics by highlighting the lack of theory and method, the need for greater interdisciplinary co-operation and the domination by economists from developed nations. They move on to present strategies...
Drawing on the biophysical sciences, public policy, geography, economics, exploratory research and the behavioural sciences, this volume offers review...
What are the 10 key issues that must be addressed urgently to improve Australia's environment?
In this follow up to the highly successful book Ten Commitments: Reshaping the Lucky Country's Environment, Australia's leading environmental thinkers have written provocative chapters on what must be done to tackle Australia's environmental problems - in terms of policies, on-ground actions and research.
Chapters are grouped into ecosystems, sectors and cross-cutting themes. Topics include: deserts, rangelands, temperate eucalypt woodlands, tropical savanna landscapes,...
What are the 10 key issues that must be addressed urgently to improve Australia's environment?