Economy and ecosystems in change

Edited by Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh, ICREA Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain and Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Jan van der Straaten, Senior Researcher in Environmental and Ecological Economics, European Centre for Nature Conservation and Retired Senior Lecturer, Department of Leisure Studies, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

• Contents: Preface 1. Ecological Economics Between Theory and Policy (J. van den Bergh, J. van der Straaten) Part I: Economics, Ecosystems, and Uncertainty 2. Ecological Economics: Paradigm or Perspective (K. Turner, C. Perrings, C. Folke) 3. Toward an Integration of Uncertainty, Irreversibility, and Complexity in Environmental Decision Making (S. Faucheux, G. Froger, G. Munda) 4. Emergent Complexity and Ecological Economics (S. Funtowicz, M. O’Connor, J. Ravetz) 5. Multi-criteria Evaluation as a Multidimensional Approach to Welfare Measurement (G. Munda) Part II. Macro-Scale 6. Effective Demand and Weak Sustainability: A Macroeconomic Model (C.E. F. Young) 7. Theories of International Trade and the Environment: Comparison and Critique (C. van Beers, J. van den Bergh) 8. Trade, Equity, and Regional Environmental Sustainability (J. Gowdy) 9. Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in China: Past Experiences and Future Potential (F. Qu, A. Kuyvenhoven, N. Heerink, T. van Rheenen) 10. Structural Change, Growth, and Dematerialization: An Empirical Analysis (S. de Bruyn, J. van den Bergh, J. Opschoor) Part III. Ecosystem Scale 11. Economic Cultures and Ecology in a Small Caribbean Island (S. Cole) 12. Sustainability and Rangeland Management (J. Arntzen) 13. Valuing Ecosystem Change: Theory and Measurement (S. Kask, J. Shogren, P. Morton) Part IV. Institutional Scale: Policy and Management Options 14. Strategic Planning for Sustainable Development in Indonesia Using Natural Resource Accounts (G.-M. Lange) 15. Limited Knowledge and the Precautionary Principle: On the Feasibility of Environmental Policies (F. Hinterberger, G.Wegner) 16. Developing Countries’ Primary Exports and the Internalizaiton of Environmental Externalities (H. Kox) Index

'This edited volume, which draws on papers presented at the Third Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Economics in 1994, provides an interesting and readable survey of an important area of inquiry and practice. The conference organizers sought to promote "down-to-earth" applications of the conceptual frameworks championed by ISEEs founders, and the book presents case studies from a wide range of geographical and substantive contexts. . . . The result is a book that reflects the methodological richness, conceptual pluralism, and operational implications of ecological economics. . . . the text remains fresh and insightful, contributing significantly to the developing literature in this field.'