Green Economy Reader

Part I. Ecological Economics: Alternative Perspectives

1. The Life Required. Political Economy in the Long Emergency
David W. Orr

2. How Economics Can Become Compatible with Democracy
Peter Söderbaum

3. Gaps in Mainstream Economics: Energy, Growth, and Sustainability
Robert U. Ayres

4. A Further Critique of Growth Economics
Herman Daly

5. Multidimensional Assessment of Sustainability: Harmony vs. the Turning Point
Stanislav Shmelev

6. System of Accounts for Global Entropy-Production (SAGE-P): The Accounting in the Topological Domain Space (TDS) of the Econosphere, Sociosphere, and the Ecosphere
Anthony Friend

Part II. Ecological Economics of Physical Balance: Resources, Climate Change, and Renewable Energy

7. The Green Economy in Europe: In Search for a Successful Transition
Stefan Speck, Roberto Zoboli

8. Measuring Natural Resource Use from the Micro to the Macro Level
Stefan Giljum, Stephan Lutter, Martin Bruckner

9. Regenerative Cities
Herbert Girardet

10. Multidimensional Sustainability Assessment for Megacities
Stanislav Shmelev

11. The Economics of Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
Terry Barker

12. A Precauctionary Strategy to Avoid Dangerous Climate Change is Affordable: 12 Reasons
Jeroen C. J. M. Bergh

13. Renewable Energy in the UK: A Slow Transition
David Elliott

Part III. Ecological Economics of Social Change

14. Social Metabolism and Ecological Distribution Conflicts in India and Latin America
Joan Martinez-Alier, Leah Temper, Mariana Walter, Federico Demaria

15. Human Values and Sustainable Development
Irina A. Shmeleva

16. Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature
Robert Costanza, Gar Alperovitz, Herman Daly, Joshua Farley, Carol Franco, Tim Jackson, Ida Kubiszewski, Juliet Schor, Peter Victor

Avainsanat: Environment, Sustainable Development, Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy, Renewable and Green Energy, Economic Growth, Economy-wide Country Studies