Economics and sustainability: social ecological perspectives

By:

Bruckmeier, Karl

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cham Springer 2020Description: xx, 447 pISBN:

9783030566265

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

338.927 BRU

Summary: This textbook provides an overview of economic perspectives on sustainability. It synthesises economic, ecological and interdisciplinary sustainability research and by applying an integrated social-ecological and economic framework, demonstrates how this research can be improved and implemented in practice. Split into three parts, the book begins by introducing a range of topics forming the basis of knowledge needed to understand the varying sustainability discourses in economics, ecology and interdisciplinary sustainability research. Chapters cover the political context of sustainability; the history of sustainability in European environmental discourses dating back to the seventeenth century; as well as various problems and forms of interdisciplinary knowledge integration and synthesis in the sustainability process. Part II reviews the core economic themes relevant to sustainable development including natural resource management, environmentaleconomics and ecological economics. Also highlighted are often neglected issues such as conflicts, disasters and interrelated crises on the way towards sustainability. The chapters in Part III discuss the future of the sustainability process. They argue for the necessity of overhauling the relationship between science and practice; explore failures and the unforeseen difficulties of sustainability transformation; and discuss how to enable a long term sustainability process that reaches into the distant future. An innovative resource for a broad range of interdisciplinary programmes on sustainability. The book will be an invaluable reference for master and PhD students, instructors, researchers and practitioners in sustainability governance. (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-56627-2)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks	Public Policy & General Management	338.927 BRU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		009123

Table of contents:
Front Matter
Pages i-xx
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The Sustainability Process: Context and Scope
Front Matter
Pages 1-1
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The Policy Context of the Sustainability Discourse
Karl Bruckmeier
Pages 3-37
The Historical Context: Sustainability in Modern Society
Karl Bruckmeier
Pages 39-86
The Knowledge Context of the Sustainability Discourse
Karl Bruckmeier
Pages 87-133
Economic and Ecological Knowledge in the Sustainability Process
Front Matter
Pages 135-135
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Economics Outright: Management of Natural Resources
Karl Bruckmeier
Pages 137-186
Environmental Economics: Orthodox Perspectives
Karl Bruckmeier
Pages 187-238
Ecological Economics: Critical Perspectives
Karl Bruckmeier
Pages 239-292
Conflict, Relapse and Failure in the Sustainability Process: Neglected Problems
Karl Bruckmeier
Pages 293-336
The Future: Sustainability Transformation
Front Matter
Pages 337-337
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Science and Practice in the Sustainability Process
Karl Bruckmeier
Pages 339-376
Re-Thinking Temporal Perspectives of Sustainability Transformation
Karl Bruckmeier
Pages 377-418
Recreating Sustainability: Conjectures and Conclusions
Karl Bruckmeier
Pages 419-434
Back Matter
Pages 435-447

[https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-56627-2]

This textbook provides an overview of economic perspectives on sustainability. It synthesises economic, ecological and interdisciplinary sustainability research and by applying an integrated social-ecological and economic framework, demonstrates how this research can be improved and implemented in practice.

Split into three parts, the book begins by introducing a range of topics forming the basis of knowledge needed to understand the varying sustainability discourses in economics, ecology and interdisciplinary sustainability research. Chapters cover the political context of sustainability; the history of sustainability in European environmental discourses dating back to the seventeenth century; as well as various problems and forms of interdisciplinary knowledge integration and synthesis in the sustainability process. Part II reviews the core economic themes relevant to sustainable development including natural resource management, environmentaleconomics and ecological economics. Also highlighted are often neglected issues such as conflicts, disasters and interrelated crises on the way towards sustainability. The chapters in Part III discuss the future of the sustainability process. They argue for the necessity of overhauling the relationship between science and practice; explore failures and the unforeseen difficulties of sustainability transformation; and discuss how to enable a long term sustainability process that reaches into the distant future.

An innovative resource for a broad range of interdisciplinary programmes on sustainability. The book will be an invaluable reference for master and PhD students, instructors, researchers and practitioners in sustainability governance.

(https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-56627-2)

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