This book is the culmination of several years work by a group of academics, policy-makers and other professionals looking to understand how alternative economic thinking -- and indeed thinking from quite different social-scientific disciplines -- could enhance the mainstream economic approach to environmental and natural-resource problems. Of the editors, Dietz comes from the mainstream economics tradition, while Michie and Oughton draw explicitly on institutional and evolutionary economics. The various authors represent a range of disciplinary backgrounds and approaches. This book draws on...

This text draws together a team of political economists and environmentalists to assess climate change and environmental policy. It eschews 'number-crunching' cost-benefit analysis to develop a more holistic approach.