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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Complexity, Ethics, and the Economics of Sustainable Forest Management
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Consumer Choice Theory and the Economics of Sustainable Forest Management
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Social Choice Theory and the Economics of Sustainable Forest Management
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Non-Linearities, Multiple Equilibria and The Economics of Sustainable Forest Management
About this book
The economics of sustainability is much more complex than the neoclassical (Newtonian) economic approach to economic efficiency. Forest resources provide the ideal starting point for the economic analysis of sustainability. This book provides a systematic critique of neoclassical economic approaches and their limitations with respect to sustainability. Leading economists from different streams of economics discuss key economic aspects of sustainability and sustainable forest management including complexity, ethical issues, consumer choice theory, intergenerational equity, non-convexities, and multiple equilibria. This is the book which integrates different streams of economics – complexity theory, behavioral economics, post-Keynesian consumer choice theory, social choice theory, and non-convexities – and suggests the main features of Post-Newtonian economics.
This book is followed by a companion book, Institutions, Sustainability, and Natural Resources: Institutions for Sustainable Forest Management, Volume 2 in the series.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This book is very different from other literature regarding ‘sustainability’. … consists of 12 chapters covering a variety of perspectives on ‘sustainability’ in forest management. … an excellent effort in terms of providing a broader picture of economics and its applications to sustainability. … I would suggest that all economists and other professionals and practitioners who believe that the dominant contemporary economic paradigm is too narrow should read this book.” (Yaoqi Zhang, International Forestry Review, Vol. 8, December, 2006)
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Canada
Shashi Kant
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Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
R. Albert Berry
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economics, Sustainability, and Natural Resources
Book Subtitle: Economics of Sustainable Forest Management
Editors: Shashi Kant, R. Albert Berry
Series Title: Sustainability, Economics, and Natural Resources
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3518-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3465-7Published: 10 August 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6874-3Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3518-0Published: 30 March 2006
Series ISSN: 1871-6121
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 272
Topics: Environment, general, Environmental Economics, Business and Management, general, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Forestry Management, Economic Policy