"Editorial" for Global Environment 4
This fourth issue continues the journal’s exploration of the scientific paradigms of global environmental history.
This fourth issue continues the journal’s exploration of the scientific paradigms of global environmental history.
A closer examination of India’s monetary history reveals that there exist many similarities between the effects of structural adjustment programs and those of monetary disturbances in the last quarter of the nineteenth century due to the depreciation of the rupee.
Anthony M. Friend on Ecological Economics—a new synthesis in which the traditional virtue of thrift is justified using modern ideas from systems theory and thermodynamics.
Wilfred Beckerman responds to the Jacobs and Daly criticisms of his earlier article in the same journal criticising the concept of “sustainable development.”
Clive L. Spash presents a critical review of some recent research by social psychologists in the US attempting to explain stated behaviour in contingent valuation.
Tim Jackson examines the influence of the Darwinian metaphor “the struggle for existence” on a variety of scientific theories which inform our current understanding of the prospects for sustainable development.
In this paper Katerina Soma introduces her concept of Natura economica.
In State of the World 2008: Innovations for a Sustainable Economy, researchers with the Worldwatch Institute and other leading experts highlight an array of economic innovations that offer new opportunities for long-term prosperity.
State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity showcases creative policies and fresh approaches that are advancing sustainable development in the twenty-first century.
In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?, scientists, policy experts, and thought leaders attempt to restore the meaning to sustainability as more than just a marketing tool.