"Cultivating Carrots and Community: Local Organic Food and Sustainable Consumption"
This paper examines the social implications of sustainable consumption through an empirical study of a local organic food initiative.
This paper examines the social implications of sustainable consumption through an empirical study of a local organic food initiative.
Joachim Schuetz argues that sustainability should be interpreted as a quest for conscious adoption of a global systems identity.
Anja Nygren analyses the social and political discourses related to environment and sustainable development in Costa Rica.
Giuseppe Munda presents a systematic discussion, mainly for non-economists, on economic approaches to the concept of sustainable development.
I.G. Simmons examines the basic thesis that environmental values must spring from the economic relations of human societies.
This analysis raises questions about the extent to which ecological economics has been able to influence real-world decisions and policy.
Examining the concepts of “security” and “sustainability” Michael Redclift argues that, although the importance of the environment has been increasingly acknowledged since the 1970s, there has been a failure to incorporate other discourses surrounding “nature.”
In his paper, Charles C. Mueller sheds light on the economics of survival, a branch of ecological economics that stresses the preservation of the opportunities of future generations over an extended time horizon.
In his article, Lawrence E. Johnson discusses the moral significance of future generations.
Philip Sarre argues that new environmental values are needed as the advanced industrial economy becomes global.