Concern about sustainability helped to launch a new agenda for development and
environmental economics and challenged many of the fundamental goals and assumptions …

Research on interdisciplinary science has for the most part concentrated on the institutional
obstacles that discourage or hamper interdisciplinary work, with the expectation that …

Economic individualism and market-based values dominate today's policymaking and public
management circles—often at the expense of the common good. In his new book, Barry …

Not yet two decades after the publication of Our Common Future, the world's political and
environmental landscape has changed significantly. Nonetheless, we argue that the concept …

The familiar market‐failure model remains quite useful for issues of price efficiency and
traditional utilitarianism, but it has many shortcomings as a standard for public‐value …

This paper proposes a new approach to measure corporate contributions to sustainability
called Sustainable Value Added. Value is created whenever benefits exceed costs. Current …

This book undertakes the first general assessment of ecological economics from a Marxist
point of view, and shows how Marxist political economy can make a substantial contribution …

The maintenance of critical natural capital is an important objective of sustainable
development. Critical natural capital represents a multidimensional concept, as it mirrors the …

Safe‐yield concepts historically focused attention on the economic and legal aspects of
ground water development. Sustainability concerns have brought environmental aspects …

A study of sustainability needs to consider the role of all forms of capital—natural, biological,
social, technological, financial, cultural—and the complex ways in which they interact. All …