ISEE- July 2014 Water Footprint Network News July 16, 2014Welcome to the Water Footprint Network’s July newsletter. I’m pleased to let you know that the new, improved version 1.1 of our Water Footprint Assessment Tool is now live and available for everyone to use on www.waterfootprint.org/tool. This upgraded version … Continue reading →
- GrowthBusters July Update – World Population Day July 15, 2014Friday is World Population Day, so the GrowthBusters team (which is down to me right now while Lynsey is on what I hope will be a temporary leave of absence) has been very focused on the overpopulation issue. I’ll share … Continue reading →
- BES & LSE Annual Symposium July 14, 2014British Ecological Society & London School of Economics Joint Annual Symposium Eco2: Ecology x Economics=Eco2 BMA House, London 8 – 10 September 2014 In September we will be holding our Annual Symposium. The organising committee includes Drew Purves and Matthew … Continue reading →
- ANZSEE 2013 Conference – Free Access July 10, 2014It is with great pleasure that I can announce the 2013 ANZSEE Conference proceedings are now available for FREE. These referred conference proceedings are a collation of both academic papers and practitioner insights based on the hugely successful ANZSEE 2013 … Continue reading →
- CROP International Studies in Poverty Prize 2014 July 8, 2014CROP in cooperation with Zed Books, requests entries for the CROP International Studies in Poverty Prize 2014. Deadline: August 31, 2014 We seek original, high-quality, alternative and critical academic manuscripts. Works challenging the dominant thinking and knowledge about poverty and … Continue reading →
- CFP: Workshop on Ethical Underpinnings of Climate Economics July 8, 2014Climate Ethics and Economics Department of Political and Economic StudiesUniversity of Helsinki Call for Papers Workshop: Ethical underpinnings of climate economics Helsinki; 11-13 November 2014 Confirmed Speakers John Broome (University of Oxford) John O’Neill (University of Manchester) The debates around … Continue reading →
- Networked Urban Mobilities July 8, 2014Networked Urban Mobilities – Register Now 5-7th of November 2014 Venue: Aalborg University Campus in Copenhagen, DK Joint hosts: Aalborg University & Roskilde University REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN Keynote Speakers Announced! John Urry – Professor of Sociology & director … Continue reading →
- Oxford Summer School in Ecological Economics 2014 July 3, 2014Breaking News The Oxford Summer School in Ecological Economics 2014 will be opened by Prof. Peter Söderbaum http://goo.gl/wEotfU and will feature will feature guest lectures by the European Environment Agency (http://www.eea.europa.eu/), Prof. Herbert Girardet and Prof. Dave Elliott.
- Response to David Barkin posting by Roy Morrison July 2, 2014Original Morrison posting. Response by David Barkin. It is precisely the enormous second law advantages posed, for example, by a global efficient renewable energy transformation to replace high entropy and ecologically ruinous fossil fuels and nuclear energy is at the … Continue reading →
- Transdisciplinary Sustainability Studies: A Heuristic Approach July 1, 2014Edited 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 →
- July 2014 Water Footprint Network News July 16, 2014
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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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Tagged Ida Kubiszewski, insights from 45 global thought leaders, robert constanza, sustainable desirable future
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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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Good News for Ecological Economics!
The newly released Impact Factors show that Ecological Economics, the journal of the International Society for Ecological Economics, has again strengthened its position by an increased Impact Factor : 2.85 (UP from 2.713) If you’d like to see the most-cited … Continue reading
Renewable Energy World Free Download
FREE BOOK DOWNLOAD Renewable Energy World and Other Adventures in Sustainability By Roy Morrison Free Kindle download: http://www.ecocivilizationweebly.com/index.html
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Gender and Green Governance in Paperback
New in Paperback Gender and Green Governance The Political Economy of Women’s Presence Within and Beyond Community Forestry Bina Agarwal528 pages | 11 Boxes, 12 Figures, 94 Tables | 234x156mm978-0-19-968302-4 | Paperback | July 2013 (estimated)Also available as: Hardback Price: … Continue reading
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Enough is Enough
Today, I am happy to announce the work of two Center for Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) staff members, Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill. They have published a new book, titled Enough is Enough: Building A Sustainable Economy … Continue reading
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Ecological Economics from the Ground Up
Ecological Economics from the Ground Up takes a unique and much-needed bottom-up approach to teaching ecological economics and political ecology, using case studies that focus on a wide range of internationally relevant topics, to teach the principles, concepts, methods and … Continue reading
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Economics for Environmental Studies
The new book by Alfred Endres and Volker Radke on Economics for Environmental Studies: A Strategic Guide to Micro- and Macroeconomics has been published by Springer in September, 2012. The book is meant both as an introductory text for undergraduate … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Endres, Economics for Environmental Studies, Springer, Strategic Guide to Micro and Macroeconomics, Volker Radke
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Special Discount for Gender & Green Governance
Last chance for special discount! Oxford University Press Special Offer Gender and Green Governance – The Political Economy of Women’s Presence Within and Beyond Community Forestry by Bina Agarwal A personal copy of Bina Agarwal’s Gender and Green Governance (Oxford … Continue reading
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Oxford University Press Special Offer
Oxford University Press Special Offer on Gender and Green Governance The Political Economy of Women’s Presence Within and Beyond Community Forestry by Bina Agarwal A personal copy of Bina Agarwal’s Gender and Green Governance (Oxford University Press, Oxford) at … Continue reading
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New Book Sustainability in Practice
Ecological Economics: Sustainability in Practice S.E. Shmelev, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK In a concise and crisp manner, this book presents the state of the art in ecological economics, an interdisciplinary field focused on the analysis of sustainability of global, … Continue reading
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ISEE Recommended Reading Available in Google Books
Title: Ecological economics: energy, environment, and society Authors: Juan Martínez Alier, Klaus Schlüpmann Edition: Reprint Publisher: B. Blackwell, 1990 ISBN: 0631171460, 9780631171461 Length: 287 pages Title: The Environmentalism of the Poor Author: Juan Martinez-Alier Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002 Length: … Continue reading