ISEE- Call for inputs by the Standing Committee on Finance June 26, 2020Call for inputs by the Standing Committee on Finance relating to the organization of its next Forum The Conference of the Parties (COP) at its seventeenth session mandated the Standing Committee on Finance (SCF) to organize a Forum for communication … Continue reading → The post Call for inputs by the Standing Committee on Finance […]
- 2020 Human Development Report June 16, 202017 June UNDP-UNEP, New York High-level Dialogue on the 2020 Human Development Report PEOPLE AND THE PLANET: The Future of Development in a Post-COVID-19 World WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2020; 3:30 p.m. CET / 9:30 am EDT Register to Join the … Continue reading → The post 2020 Human Development Report appeared first on The International […]
- Life Beyond Capital June 3, 2020Prof John O’Neill, University of Manchester CUSP essay series on the Morality of Sustainable Prosperity | No 6 This essay forms part of a series within the work programme of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, investigating the philosophical … Continue reading → The post Life Beyond Capital appeared first on The International Society […]
- What is Lost Through No Net Loss June 3, 2020John O’Neill Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK (Received 26 October 2017; revised 08 June 2019; accepted 22 July 2019) Abstract No net loss approaches to environmental policy claim that … Continue reading → The post What is Lost Through No Net Loss appeared first […]
- University Teacher in Ecological Economics June 3, 2020Applications are invited for a 12-month fixed-term, full-time University Teacher in the area of ecological and environmental economics. The successful candidate will be required to teach compulsory courses on climate change economics to student cohorts at postgraduate taught (MSc) level. … Continue reading → The post University Teacher in Ecological Economics appeared first on The […]
- USSEE Newsletter June 2020 Job Opportunities June 1, 2020The U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station is seeking to hire a Research Economist with a duty station in Portland Oregon in the near future. The entry-level of this Research Economist is GS-110-12. A Ph.D. in Environmental Economics, Natural Resource … Continue reading → The post USSEE Newsletter June 2020 Job Opportunities appeared first on […]
- ESA 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting June 1, 20202020 ESA Annual Meeting Harnessing the Ecological Data Revolution From August 3-6, ESA will virtually host the Annual Meeting for ecologists from around the world. This is an opportunity to join your colleagues and leaders from various fields for four … Continue reading → The post ESA 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting appeared first on The […]
- USSEE 2020 Board Elections Open June 1, 2020USSEE 2020 Board Elections Open Voting is now open for 5 available USSEE board positions. All active USSEE members should have received an email yesterday with voting information. You can read about the candidates and cast your vote visit our website … Continue reading → The post USSEE 2020 Board Elections Open appeared first on The […]
- Urban Economics Association’s Weekly Summer Online Lecture Series June 1, 2020Urban Economics Association’s Weekly Summer Online Lecture Series This June and July, the Urban Economics Association is organizing a weekly online lecture series on urban economics. The purpose of these lectures is to provide Ph.D. students, post-docs, and junior faculty … Continue reading → The post Urban Economics Association’s Weekly Summer Online Lecture Series appeared […]
- USSEE Round Table Discussion: Beyond GDP: Measuring Genuine Progress June 1, 2020USSEE Round Table Discussion: Beyond GDP: Measuring Genuine Progress Wednesday, June 3rd, 3 pm EDT. To register, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ussee-panel-discussion-beyond-… About this Event: Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) is a metric designed to take fuller account of the well-being of a nation, … Continue reading → The post USSEE Round Table Discussion: Beyond GDP: Measuring Genuine Progress […]
- Call for inputs by the Standing Committee on Finance June 26, 2020
Category Archives: Books
Economics for Humans, Second Edition
Economics for Humans, Second Edition Julie A. Nelson, University of Chicago Press, December 2018 Times Literary Supplement “Passionate, to be welcomed in a discipline notably devoid of passion. . . . Can be read for pleasure and enlightenment by economists and non-economists … Continue reading
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Tagged business, business economics and management studies, Economics, economics and business, general theory and principles, individual, julie nelson, social institutions, Sociology, state and society, women's studies
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Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics
50 original articles, by 63 international authors (a third female), providing an introduction to and overview of key issues in ecological economics. Ideal for teaching and learning about the field, its current state and future prospects. Continue reading
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EcoSystems
Updated: 10 December 2018 1 November 2018 Press Release and Book Form Environment Europe is delighted to request the pleasure of your company at the Private View of the ‘ECOSYSTEMS’ exhibition by Dr Stanislav Shmelev to take place 13:00-17:00 on 12 … Continue reading
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Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability, and Diversity
Just published: An edited volume titled “Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability, and Diversity”, edited by Sharachchandra Lele, Eduardo S. Brondizio, John Byrne, Georgina M. Mace and Joan Martinez-Alier and published by MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. The book is the result … Continue reading
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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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Tagged Australia, christine esau, environment and Natural resource management, mike young, Routledge, taylor & francis group, transformational change
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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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Tagged Ecological Economics, ecological economics handbook, Edward Elgar, handbook, martinez-alier, Roldan Muradian
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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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