Dueling paradigms -- Our precious endowment -- Understanding our natural endowment -- A tale of two energy crises -- Dysfunctional markets -- Nature as guide -- Closing the materials loop -- Shifting back to renewable energy sources -- Economic succession -- Economic resiliency -- Conclusion.

Drawing on both economics and ecology, this book offers telling insights into the confusing 'jobs versus environment' debates as well as charts a recommended path towards a co-habitable relationship. It illuminates why our nation's natural environment is both better and worse than years ago

Dueling paradigms -- Our precious endowment -- Understanding our natural endowment -- A tale of two energy crises -- Dysfunctional markets -- Nature as guide -- Closing the materials loop -- Shifting back to renewable energy sources -- Economic succession -- Economic resiliency -- Conclusion.

Introduction -- Environmental education : problems and possible solutions -- The meaning of economy and ecology -- Scientific logos and ignorance -- The essence logos -- The existence logos -- Forms of knowledge and the economic dynamics -- The term nature and the three purposes of life --...

1. Introduction : a development issue -- 2. A story of communism and rural societies -- 3. Post-communist economic dynamics of agricultural systems -- 4. Transition and transformations in the agriculture-nature nexus -- 5. Common Agricultural Policy reforms and European Union enlargement -- 6....