Practitioners in the fields of sustainable development, land management, and biodiversity conservation are increasingly interested in using economic instruments that promise "win-win" solutions for conservation and human livelihoods. However, practitioners often lack guidance for selecting and...

Global scientific assessments increasingly reach the conclusion that transformative change of global production and consumption systems is necessary to safeguard and maintain global commons, such as biodiversity, natural forests and the ocean, and to stabilise climate at the global scale....

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Legal History of the Corporation -- 2. The Great Alignment: 1945-2000 -- 3. Corporation 1920 -- 4. Through the Looking Glass of Corporate Externalities -- 5. Incorporating Externalities --...

To understand how the world’s ecosystems are changing we need to understand cities, and to create better cities we need to understand the ecosystems they depend on. The failure of most markets, government policies and even urban studies to take these relations into account has put cities, and...