ISEE- Degrowth International Conferences in 2018 October 19, 2017Announcing three Degrowth International Conferences in 2018: Sweden, Mexico and European Parliament. The Support Group of the International Degrowth Conferences is happy to announce three degrowth events for 2018. After the conferences in Paris (2008), Barcelona (2010), Venice and Montreal (2012), Leipzig … Continue reading →
- Economics Research Fellow – Primary Forest Protection October 10, 2017Information, Policy & On-ground Action for Primary Forest Protection Overview: This is an opportunity to undertake applied economic research into tropical primary forest protection in three key countries or regions (Democratic Republic of Congo, Brazil, and Melanesia). This applied multidisciplinary, … Continue reading →
- ERI Fellow, Assistant Research Scholar, Green Economic Development October 3, 2017ERI Fellow, Assistant Research Scholar, Green Economic Development 00045640 OAA#: 21709-16 The Environmental Resilience Institute (ERI) at Indiana University (IU) invites applications for a Fellow position in green economic development to begin in Fall 2018; the appointment is renewable for … Continue reading →
- Hiring Twelve Positions in Urban Ecosystems Services October 3, 2017HIRING 12 POSITIONS (PROJECT COORDINATOR, POSTDOCS, RESEARCH ASSISTANTS, Ph.D. SCHOLARSHIPS) IN URBAN ECOSYSTEM SERVICES Based at the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC), National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) We are beginning a multi-million dollar project to quantify the … Continue reading →
- Bina Agarwal awarded the prestigious 2017 Balzan Prize October 3, 2017Bina Agarwal, former President of the International Society For Ecological Economics and currently Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester, has been awarded the prestigious Balzan prize for her pathbreaking work in women in agriculture and gender studies. The … Continue reading →
- Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies with an emphasis on Sustainable Urban Systems September 27, 2017State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry Department of Environmental Studies 1 Forestry Drive Syracuse, New York 13210 September 22, 2017 ANNOUNCEMENT OF FACULTY VACANCY ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN SYSTEMS The State University of New York … Continue reading →
- Energy Globe Award 2018 September 27, 2017The objective of the ENERGY GLOBE Award is to present successful sustainable projects to a global audience and to demonstrate that for many environmental problems feasible solutions already exist. Projects submitted from over 170 countries take part each year in … Continue reading →
- Job Opening: ESEE Web and Social Media Manager September 25, 2017ESEE is looking for a part-time webmaster to take over managing the ESEE website. This position would be particularly suitable for a PhD student or postdoctoral researcher. The job holder would support the ESEE Board and country contacts network in … Continue reading →
- Call for Future ISEE Conference Organizers September 25, 2017ISEE holds its conference biennially. These conferences normally attract 500-900 social and natural scientists. In 2010 we met in Oldenburgl, in 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, in 2014 in Iceland, and in 2016 in Washington DC. In 2018 the Conference will … Continue reading →
- VIII DAYS OF ECOLOGICAL ECONOMY September 25, 2017VIII DAYS OF ECOLOGICAL ECONOMY Rosario, October 2 to 6, 2017 The sustainability against neo-extractivism and reprimarization in Latin America. Transdisciplinary views and the construction of alternatives. The Organizing Committee informs that the Fourth Circular is already available as well … Continue reading →
- Degrowth International Conferences in 2018 October 19, 2017
Category Archives: Books
Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management
Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management Guidelines for policy excellence Edited by Mike Young, Christine Esau About the Book The aim of this book is to catalyse global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource … Continue reading
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Sustainability and the Art of Long-term Thinking
Publication new Book “Sustainability and the Art of Long-term Thinking” by Bernd Klauer, Reiner Manstetten, Thomas Petersen, Johannes Schiller Dealing with time is intimately linked to sustainability, because sustainability, at its core, involves long-term ethical claims. To live up to … Continue reading
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Vernon Press – Call for book or chapter proposals
Call for book or chapter proposals: Vernon Press launches a series in “Economic Methodology” Vernon Press invites book proposals on economic methods, broadly construed. All economics-based schools of thought are encouraged to submit. Other disciplines are encouraged to submit, as … Continue reading
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Tagged agent-based modeling, behavioural economics, dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (dsge), econometrics/statistics, economic experiments, economic methods, qualitative methods, quantitative methods
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Limits of Economic and Social Knowledge
Insightful new book by Stephen DeCanio Limits of Economic and Social Knowledge Stephen J. DeCanio It might seem that contemporary economic theory offers a scientific account of choice among alternatives. Yet this is only superficially the case; the behavior of … Continue reading
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Handbook of Ecological Economics
Edited by Joan Martínez-Alier, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain and Roldan Muradian, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil ‘This volume is a much-needed addition to the literature on ecological economics. The essays in this volume represent a return to the basic ontological … Continue reading
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New Book: Sustainable Economics
New book Sustainable EconomicsContext, Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century Practitioner. (Greenleaf Publishing) Targeted at enabling the modern business student and practitioner to disentangle the complex debate relating to sustainability, this book provides the tools necessary to lead their … Continue reading
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Tagged business strategies, current thinking on sustainability, greenleaf publishing, lead organizations, modern ecological thought, practioner, students, Sustainability, sustainable economics
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Introduction to Ecological Economics Second Edition
Robert Costanza’s new book: Introduction to Ecological Economics, Second Edition. This edition is a major update and expansion of the 1997 first edition. Ecological economics explores new ways of thinking about how we manage our lives and our planet to … Continue reading
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[NEW BOOK] Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era
Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era edited by Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria and Giorgos Kallis (Routledge, 2014) Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of … Continue reading
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Limits of Economic Knowledge – New Book
Limits of Economic and Social Knowledge by Stephen J. DeCanio (Palgrave Macmillan 2014) is now available in both Kindle and hardcover editions:
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VALUING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Methodological Issues and Case Studies Edited by K.N. Ninan, Centre for Economics, Environment and Society, Bangalore, India and Co-Chair, Panel on Methodological Assessment of Scenarios and Modelling of Biodiversity and Ecosystem (IPBES), United Nations, Bonn, Germany. Foreword by Robert Costanza … Continue reading
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Transdisciplinary Sustainability Studies: A Heuristic Approach
Edited by Katri Huutoniemi, Petri TapioRoutledge – 2014 – 216 pagesSeries: Routledge Studies in Sustainability Arising out of human-environment interaction, sustainability problems resist disciplinary categories and simple solutions. This book offers a fresh approach to practical and methodological concerns in … Continue reading
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Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future
Just released – a new edited book titled: “Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future: Insights from 45 Global Thought Leaders” that I think might interest you. The book offers a broad, critical discussion of what a sustainable and desirable future … Continue reading
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Power to the People
Just published – POWER TO THE PEOPLE – by Astrid Kander Power to the People Power to the People:Energy in Europe over the Last Five CenturiesAstrid Kander, Paolo Malanima & Paul Warde Cloth | 2014 | $39.50 / £27.95 | … Continue reading
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