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13 produkter
Ultrasocial
The Evolution of Human Nature and the Quest for a Sustainable Future
Inbunden, 2021
278 kr
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Ultrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption of agriculture by our ancestors. Human economy has become an ultrasocial superorganism (similar to an ant or termite colony), with the requirements of …
Paradise for Sale
A Parable of Nature
Av Carl N. McDaniel, John M. Gowdy
Häftad, 2000
400 kr
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The grim history of Nauru Island, a small speck in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia, represents a larger story of environmental degradation and economic dysfunction. For more than 2,000 years traditional Nauruans, isolated from the rest of the world, lived in social and …
Paradise for Sale
A Parable of Nature
Av John M. Gowdy, Carl N. McDaniel
E-bok, 2000
468 kr
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The grim history of Nauru Island, a small speck in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia, represents a larger story of environmental degradation and economic dysfunction. For more than 2,000 years traditional Nauruans, isolated from the rest of the world, lived in social and …
Microeconomic Theory Old and New
A Student's Guide
Inbunden, 2009
1616 kr
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Microeconomic Theory Old and New: A Student's Guide has two main goals. The first is to give advanced undergraduate and graduate students an understanding of the core model of economics: Walrasian general equilibrium theory. The text presents in detail the three building blocks of Walrasian …
Microeconomic Theory Old and New
A Student's Guide
Häftad, 2009
395 kr
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Microeconomic Theory Old and New: A Student's Guide has two main goals. The first is to give advanced undergraduate and graduate students an understanding of the core model of economics: Walrasian general equilibrium theory. The text presents in detail the three building blocks of Walrasian …
Microeconomic Theory Old and New
A Student's Guide
E-bok, 2009
482 kr
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Microeconomic Theory Old and New: A Student's Guide has two main goals. The first is to give advanced undergraduate and graduate students an understanding of the core model of economics: Walrasian general equilibrium theory. The text presents in detail the three building blocks of Walrasian …
Ultrasocial
The Evolution of Human Nature and the Quest for a Sustainable Future
E-bok, 2021
310 kr
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Ultrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption of agriculture by our ancestors. Human economy has become an ultrasocial superorganism (similar to an ant or termite colony), with the requirements of …
Ultrasocial
The Evolution of Human Nature and the Quest for a Sustainable Future
E-bok, 2021
303 kr
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Ultrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption of agriculture by our ancestors. Human economy has become an ultrasocial superorganism (similar to an ant or termite colony), with the requirements of …
Sustainability in Question
The Search for a Conceptual Framework
Av Jörg Köhn, John M. Gowdy m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
2325 kr
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This book explores approaches to sustainability by linking the economy, society and the environment. The international group of experts uses concepts of sustainability from the physical and social sciences to develop a framework for creating policies for sustainability. Sustainability in Question …
Frontiers in Ecological Economic Theory and Application
Av Jon D. Erickson, John M. Gowdy
Inbunden, 2007
2411 kr
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Research on the cutting edge of economics, ecology, and ethics is presented in this timely study. Building from a theoretical critique of the tradition of cost-benefit analysis, the contributors lay the foundation for a macroeconomics of environmental sustainability and distributive justice. …
Bioeconomics and Sustainability
Essays in Honor of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
Inbunden, 1999
2565 kr
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Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen was described by Paul Samuelson as 'an economist's economist'. This book honors him by discussing his theories on a wide range of issues but particularly on environmental and energy economics. It is a dynamic tribute which extends his work to address the problems the human …
Sustainability and Firms
Technological Change and the Changing Regulatory Environment
Av Sylvie Faucheux, John M. Gowdy m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1760 kr
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This important book addresses the prospects for reconciling economic competitiveness with sustainable development. It shows that we cannot simply assume that changes in public attitudes, business policies and government regulation will guarantee the conditions for long-term ecological, social and …
Sustainability in Action
Sectoral and Regional Case Studies
Av Jörg Kohn, John M. Gowdy m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
2119 kr
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Sustainability is a process that demands cooperation rather than competition. Sustainability in Action offers a variety of case studies that show how industry, managers, policy decision makers, regional planners and stakeholders cope with the sustainability concept and what it means to them. …
