Elgar Encyclopedia of Ecological Economics

Description based upon print version of record. 84. Steady-state economics "With diverse contributions from over 100 authors around the globe, this comprehensive Encyclopedia summarises the developments of ecological economics from the fundamental contributions to the more recent methodological debates in the field. This Encyclopedia further reflects the relevant state of research including past and present major debates about particular concepts, theories, actors and issues at hand. It provides an expansive list of topics including sustainable development, the limits to growth, agroecology, implications of thermodynamic laws for economics, integrated ecologic-economic modelling, valuation of natural resources and services, and renewable and non-renewable resources management. With a strong normative focus, entries include theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions, as the field orientates its efforts to improve environmental policy and governance to enhance wellbeing, environmental quality, and social justice. This unique reference will be a key tool to students, scholars, policy makers and anyone else seeking to understand the link between economic systems and the environment from the perspective of ecological economics, business management, environmental and urban studies. Key Features: - Entries include selected references for further study - Entries by both leading scholars and up-and-coming voices - Addresses the links between the ecological crisis and economic activity - Over 90 entries with accessible explanations of key concepts and methods - Multi-disciplinary approach across the fields of economics, ecology, sociology, geography, and also political science and history"-- Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Boxes -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Agent-based modelling -- 2. Agroecology -- 3. Agrowth -- 4. Anthropocene -- 5. Biodiversity conservation -- 6. Bounded openness over natural information -- 7. Bounded rationality -- 8. Carbon taxes -- 9. Circular economy -- 10. Climate change and social justice -- 11. Coevolution (socio-biophysical coevolution) -- 12. Common property and environmental governance -- 13. Complex social-ecological systems -- 14. Consumption -- 15. Cost shifting, competition and economic structure -- 16. Critical materials 17. Degrowth -- 18. Deliberative ecological economics -- 19. Discounting and climate change -- 20. Ecofeminisms -- 21. Ecological distribution conflicts -- 22. Ecological macroeconomics -- 23. Ecological unequal exchange -- 24. Economic anthropology -- 25. Economic system -- 26. Economy as an open system -- 27. Ecosystem services -- 28. Emergy accounting -- 29. Energy return on investment: a unifying principle for socio-ecological sustainability -- 30. Energy transition(s) -- 31. Entropy -- 32. Environmental accounting -- 33. The environmental consequences of inequality 34. Environmental ethics -- 35. Environmental footprints -- 36. Environmental governance -- 37. Environmental input-output analysis -- 38. Environmental justice -- 39. The environmental Kuznets curve -- 40. Environmental limits -- 41. Environmental stewardship -- 42. Environmental tax reform -- 43. Environmental taxation and the double dividend -- 44. Environmentally extended multi-region input-output analysis -- 45. Ethics of quantification -- 46. Fetish, commodity fetishism and ecosystem services -- 47. Future generations -- 48. Georgescu-Roegen's bioeconomics -- 49. Green economy 50. Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) -- 51. The human ecological footprint -- 52. Incommensurable values -- 53. Industrial ecology -- 54. Institutions -- 55. Joint production -- 56. Kapp, Karl William -- 57. Land grabbing -- 58. Land-time budget analysis -- 59. Languages of valuation -- 60. The laws of thermodynamics -- 61. Material flow accounting -- 62. The maximum power principle -- 63. Metabolic flow -- 64. Methodological pluralism -- 65. Multi-criteria evaluation -- 66. Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM) 67. National accounts and macroeconomic indicators -- 68. Natural capital -- 69. Nature-based solutions -- 70. Nexus approaches in socio-metabolic research -- 71. Payments for ecosystem services -- 72. Peak-Oil -- 73. Political and institutional ecological economics -- 74. Population and environment -- 75. Post-normal science -- 76. The precautionary principle -- 77. Production and economic development -- 78. Rebound effect and the Jevons paradox -- 79. Sensitivity analysis -- 80. Sensitivity auditing -- 81. Social ecological economics -- 82. Social metabolism -- 83. Spaceship Earth