Culture of Ecology: Reconciling Economics and Environment

✍ Scribed by Robert Babe

Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 245
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Culture of Ecology marks the beginning in a struggle to prove that, given the right approach, economy and ecosystem need not be mutually exclusive.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Sustainable Development vs Sustainable Ecosystem
2. Economics and Ecology as Discourses
3. Ancient Syntheses
4. Shattering the Synthesis: Hobbes, Smith, and Neoclassicism
5. Environmental vs Ecological Economics
6. Information, Entropy, and Infinite Earth
Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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