Why focus on the connection between the environment and employment? / Philip Lawn -- The potential conflict between ecological sustainability and full employment / Philip Lawn -- Why have post-Keynesians (perhaps) inadequately dealt with issues related to the environment? / Andrew Mearman --...

chapter 1 Sustainability needs tested ideas from the Pacific Northwest -- chapter 2 The 'noble savage' spin game -- chapter 3 Northwest Coast world views -- chapter 4 Indian giving creates consumption connections to mirror ecosystem connections -- chapter 5 Contingent proprietorship provides...

Introduction -- Bear tracks to sustainability expertise -- Miserable quarrel in a social-ecological system -- The commitments of science : dissecting the social-ecological system -- Reassembling the social-ecological system through analogies -- Illuminating sustainability with scenarios and...

This book examines in detail the resource management problems and challenges posed by the intensification of the environmental change process in coastal areas around the globe. The analysis deployed is by and large buttressed by methods and techniques drawn from social science disciplines:...

By their adoption of Agenda 21, most of the world's governments have acknowledged the need for sustainable development. This implies that new policies are needed, focusing on economic, social, cultural and ecological goals. At the same time, we also need to solve existing environmental and...

Sustainable development and environmental improvement are often regarded as intrinsically valuable a priori. As a result, the policies by which these goals are to be attained is often inadequately scrutinised. In this book, ecological economics addresses the institutional and policymaking...