Elgar Encyclopedia of Ecological 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 84. Steady-state economics 85. Sustainability versus monetary reductionism 86. Sustainable development indicators 87. Uncertainty, risk and ignorance 88. Uncomfortable knowledge 89. Unequal caloric exchange 90. Water footprint Index