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Price: $66.50

Format:
Hardback 296 pp.
136 mm x 214 mm

ISBN-10:
0195696972

ISBN-13:
9780195696974

Publication date:
August 2008

Imprint: OUP India

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Deliberative Ecological Economics

Richard B. Howarth and Christos Zografos

It is being increasingly realized that sustainable development can be achieved only through democracy and value diversity. This collection of essays explores both novel and established means by which economics can combine with deliberative decision making processes to generate sustainability. The volume for the first time, establishes a link between economics, sustainability, and democracy. The scholarship fills a gap between ecological economics and deliberative processes and in that way the volume scores over present available literature in this field.

Teachers and students of development economics, politics, and sociology; and policymakers seeking links between sustainability and development will find the volume useful.

Readership : Teachers and students of development economics, politics, and sociology; and policymakers seeking links between sustainability and development.

Foreword
Introduction: Towards a deliberative ecological economics
Part I: Deliberative ecological economics for environmental decision-making
1. Deliberative monetary valuation: literature, limitations and perspectives
2. Constructing preferences in structured group deliberative processes
3. Putting the economics in its place: decision making in an uncertain environment
4. An ordinal multi-criteria approach to environmental valuation
Part II: Deliberative ecological economics and the politics of sustainable development
5. Deliberative economics, Richard Norgaard
6. Ecological economics and homo economicus: theory and research practice
7. A developmental perspective on climate policy discourse
Part III: Theory development in deliberative ecological economics
8. Memory for regional sustainable development: An example for trans-disciplinary theory building in sustainability science
9. Cooperation in a fragile environment: The role of deliberation and voting in an economic field experiment in rural communities of southern Namibia and northern South Africa.

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Richard Howarth is Pat and Johnson Rosenwald Professor in the Environment Studies Programme at Dartmouth College, USA, and Christos Zografos is Researcher, Ecological Economics, Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain.

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Special Features

  • Important for ecosystem assessment.
  • An aid for sustainability.
  • Link between economic growth and sustainability.
  • Part of the important new series 'Ecological Economics and Human Well-being'.