ISEE- Macroeconomics in the Age of Climate Change January 27, 2015Join GDAE for the 2015 Leontief Prize award ceremony and lecturesLectures by Prize winners Duncan Foley and Lance Taylor on the theme Macroeconomics in the Age of Climate Change Monday, March 23, 2015 at 5:30ASEAN Auditorium, Fletcher School, Tufts University … Continue reading →
- 2015 Nobel Peace Prize January 23, 2015Stuart Scott, IESCO, Deputy Director General for the North American Region and Climate Change Issues; See end for update Again this year I am actively promoting both the Nobel Peace Prize and the Economics Prize, to be awarded in a … Continue reading →
- Introduction to Ecological Economics Second Edition January 20, 2015Robert 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 →
- Program Manager – Sustainable Agriculture January 12, 2015Help improve environmental, social and economic outcomes in Australian agriculture: Join one of the world’s most respected conservation organisations Full time position, 2 years Brisbane or Sydney negotiable WWF-Australia, the global conservation organisation, is seeking an experienced manager to lead … Continue reading →
- Global Footprint Network Research Intern January 8, 2015Global Footprint Network promotes a sustainable economy by advancing the Ecological Footprint, a tool that makes sustainability measurable. Together with our partners, we coordinate research, develop methodological standards, and provide decision makers with robust tools to help the human economy … Continue reading →
- Global Footprint Network Research Analyst (Oakland) January 8, 2015Global Footprint Network promotes a sustainable economy by advancing the Ecological Footprint, a tool that makes sustainability measurable. Together with our partners, we coordinate research, develop methodological standards, and provide decision makers with robust resource accounts to help the human … Continue reading →
- 27th PhD Workshop on International Climate Policy January 6, 2015The Sustainability Research Center at ESCP Europe “SustBusy” is pleased to host the next Workshop of the European PhD Network on International Climate Policy! To read the Call for Papers for the 27th PhD Workshop on International Climate Policy (ICP) … Continue reading →
- Post Doctoral Researcher; Green Development & Fishing Industry December 29, 2014Post doctoral researcher at the Institute of Sustainability Studies University of Iceland; Green development and the fishing industry. A 2-YEAR POSITION as post doctoral researcher on assessing how to reduce GHG emissions from the fishing industry and contribute simultaneously to … Continue reading →
- Post Doctoral Researcher December 29, 2014Post doctoral researcher, at the Institute of Economic Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavik: An interdisciplinary position within the fields of biology, economics and political science. A 2-YEAR POSITION as a Post doctoral researcher, on the international implications of variability in … Continue reading →
- Postdoctoral Fellow: Adapting dairy farms to climate change December 23, 2014The BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change offers a 3 year postdoctoral fellowship. The successful applicant will assist in the development of system-based livestock farm modeling approaches in order to analyze strategies that help dairy farmers to both adapt to temperature … Continue reading →
- Macroeconomics in the Age of Climate Change January 27, 2015
Category Archives: Books
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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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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