Ecological Economics and Sustainability |
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Constanza, R., et. al., An Introduction to Ecological Economics (Boca Raton, Florida: St. Lucie Press, 1997). Hardcover.Readings:
Handouts (to be provided in class)Best, Allen, "STOP: A National Forest Tries to Rein in Recreation," High Country News (32:1, Jan. 17, 2000).
U.S., Dept. of Ag, Forest Service, Summary of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement: White River National Forest (Washington D.C.: GPO, 1999).
Boulding, Kenneth E., "The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth," in: H. Jarrett (ed), Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy (Baltimore, MD: Resources for the Future/Johns Hopkins Press).
Rothman, Hal K., Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West, Chap. 1 - Introduction (Lawrence, Kansas: Univ. Press of Kansas).
Hardin, Garrett, "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science, Dec. 13, 1968.
Byers, Bruce, "Investigating A Natural Resource Commons: A Framework for Diagnosis and Prescription," (unpublished, n.d.).
Meadows, Donella H., et. al., The Limits to Growth, Introduction (New York: Universe Books, 1972).
Daly, Herman, Steady-State Economics: The Economics of Biophysical Equilibrium & Moral Growth, Chap. 5 - "A Catechism of Growth Fallacies" (New York: W.H. Freeman, 1977).
World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Report), Our Common Future, Chairman's Foreword & Commission Overview - "From One Earth to One World" (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1987).
Hueting, Roefie, "The Bruntdland Report: A Matter of Conflicting Goals," Ecological Economics, 2(1990) pp. 109-117.
Korten, David, "Sustainable Development: Conventional versus Emergent Alternative Wisdom," Prepared for Office of Technology Assessment, Revised, Sept. 11, 1996.
Soros, George, "The Capitalist Threat," Atlantic Monthly, Feb. 1997.
Cox, Harvey, "The Market as God," Atlantic Monthly, March, 1999.
Hawken, Paul, et. al., Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, Chap. 1 - "The Next Industrial Revolution," New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1999).
Homer-Dixon, Thomas F., et. al., "Environmental Change and Violent Conflict," Scientific American, Feb. 1993.
Costanza, Robert & Bernard C. Patten, "Defining and Predicting Sustainability," Ecological Economics 15 (1995) 193-196.