Ecological Economics

This volume is the most comprehensive textbook on sustainable development. It has been developed with students and professionals from around the world specifically for those who need a thorough grounding in the subject. Coverage includes: background to su

Peter Soderbaum is Professor of Business Management at Malardalen University in Sweden.

List of figures and tables

vii

List of acronyms and abbreviations

ix

Preface

xi

Acknowledgements

xv

Environmental and Other Problems

1

(17)

The importance of ideology

2

(1)

Science and ideology

3

(4)

Neo-classical economics

7

(2)

Environmental problems and neo-classical economics

9

(3)

Facing complexity

12

(1)

Toulmin on the evolution of world views

13

(1)

Many kinds of failure or success

14

(4)

Ecological Economics

18

(14)

What is ecological economics?

19

(2)

Institutional economics

21

(5)

Epistemological tensions and complementarities

26

(3)

Paradigm co-existence rather than paradigm-shift

29

(3)

The Political Economic Person and the Political Economic Organization

32

(20)

Political Economic Person

33

(3)

A socio-psychological frame of reference

36

(3)

Ideological orientation as a key concept

39

(2)

Political Economic Relationships

41

(4)

The organization and its stakeholders

45

(3)

A political economics view of organizations and markets

48

(4)

Economics, Efficiency and Ideological Orientation

52

(15)

The `monetary reductionism' of neo-classical economics

53

(3)

Some observations from the worlds of politics and business

56

(3)

A disaggregated and ideologically open conception of economics

59

(3)

Analysis in terms of flows and positions

62

(4)

Conclusions on efficiency, rationality and ideology

66

(1)

Political Ideologies, Democracy and Decision-Making

67

(18)

Liberalism and its relationship to economics

68

(3)

Ecologism and its relationship to economics

71

(5)

Democracy as a meta-ideology

76

(3)

A classification of approaches to decision-making

79

(2)

Democracy and decision-making

81

(2)

The continued importance of ideology

83

(2)

Environmental Management and Decision-making: A Political Economics Approach

85

(21)

The Purpose of Positional Analysis

86

(2)

The main features of PA

88

(3)

Purpose and context of studies

91

(2)

Decision trees in positional terms

93

(4)

Comparing alternatives with respect to impacts and conflicts of interest

97

(6)

Investment decisions: A scheme of analysis

103

(1)

Analysis of ongoing activities and retrospective PA

104

(2)

A Policy for Ecological Sustainability

106

(21)

How do societies change?

107

(9)

Ethical issues and principles

116

(2)

Who are the policy makers?

118

(1)

Strategies for change

119

(8)

Epilogue

127

(8)

How can all this be applied?

129

(4)

The role of universities

133

(2)

References

135

(8)

Index

143

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