ISEE- ICTA-R&D Master in Political Ecology: Pre-registrations now open! May 11, 2018ICTA-R&D Master in Political Ecology: Pre-registrations now open! We are now ready to start the pre-registration process for the master in Political Ecology with specialization in Degrowth and Environmental Justice! While we are waiting for our University administration to deal with the … Continue reading →
- Hans Carl von Carlowitz Junior Professorship (W1) in Sustainability Assessment and Policy May 8, 2018Hans Carl von Carlowitz Junior Professorship (W1) in Sustainability Assessment and Policy The Faculty of Environmental Sciences at the TU Dresden, Germany, invites for the PRISMA – Centre for Sustainability Assessment and Policy (www.tu-dresden.de/prisma) applications for the position of Hans … Continue reading →
- Announcement & Call for Papers: 20th Annual BIOECON Conference May 7, 2018Announcement & Call for Papers XX ANNUAL BIOECON CONFERENCE ON: “Land-use, Agriculture and Biodiversity: Spatial and Temporal Issues” 12th -14th September 2018 King’s College, Cambridge United Kingdom Keynote Speakers: Professor Douglas Gollin, University of Oxford, UK Professor Paul Ferraro, Johns Hopkins … Continue reading →
- New Climate Ethics & Climate Economics CfP May 7, 2018Climate Ethics and Climate Economics: Discounting the future—what have we learned? The last of in a series of six ESRC-funded workshops exploring the issues where the ethics and economics of climate change intersect will take place from 13-15 June at the University of … Continue reading →
- Post-Growth 2018 Conference Call for Papers April 30, 2018Call for papers and participation the Institutionalisation of Degrowth & Post-growth: the European level Brussels, September 17th (2018) Context A major degrowth & post-growth conference (http://www.postgrowth2018.eu) convened by European-level stakeholders (Members of the European Parliament from different political groups, academics, NGOs and … Continue reading →
- ECONOMICS FOR THE ECOZOIC: An online student symposium April 30, 2018ECONOMICS FOR THE ECOZOIC: An online student symposium Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 1:00 – 5:00 pm EST Zoom Link Ecological economics is part of an on-going effort to reconcile economic theory and policy … Continue reading →
- Extension of Abstract Submission Deadline for ISEE 2018 April 16, 2018ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FINAL DEADLINE extended to APRIL 30, 2018 15th Congress of the International Society for Ecological Economics ISEE 2018 10, 11 and 12 September 2018, in the city of Puebla, Mexico A bi-lingual congress Ecological Economics and Socio-ecological Movements: … Continue reading →
- 2018 COP-24, UN Climate Negotiations April 9, 2018Find out more about the ISEE Call for Participation at the 2018 UN Climate Negotiations, COP-24. Your participation is needed in order to make this a success! If you are interested in attending the climate talks to represent the ISEE … Continue reading →
- Submissions April 9, 2018Submissions for proposals. Please apply online from January 15th until April 15th, 2018. Registration and submission of abstracts (in PDF); no more than 250 words including: Full name(s), paper title, general theme, objective(s), methods and results. Abstracts can be submitted … Continue reading →
- ISEE 2020 Call for Location Proposals April 6, 2018Call for future ISEE Conference Organizers ISEE holds its conference biennially. These conferences normally attract 500-900 social and natural scientists. In 2010 we met in Oldenburgh, in 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, in 2014 in Iceland, in 2016 in Washington … Continue reading →
- ICTA-R&D Master in Political Ecology: Pre-registrations now open! May 11, 2018
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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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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Tagged Degrowth, federico demaria, giacomo d'alisa, Giorgos Kallis, Routledge, vocabulary for a new era
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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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