"Degrowth: A Slogan for a New Ecological Democracy"
An interview with Serge Latouche, a proponent of the anti-utilitarian movement in environmental thought.
An interview with Serge Latouche, a proponent of the anti-utilitarian movement in environmental thought.
This fourth issue continues the journal’s exploration of the scientific paradigms of global environmental history.
Diane Saxe argues that a stronger “fiduciary” duty is required where corporations take risks with the environment and that economic activities must move from open to closed (sustainable) systems.
Wilfred Beckerman responds to the Jacobs and Daly criticisms of his earlier article in the same journal criticising the concept of “sustainable development.”
I.G. Simmons examines the basic thesis that environmental values must spring from the economic relations of human societies.
Giuseppe Munda presents a systematic discussion, mainly for non-economists, on economic approaches to the concept of sustainable development.
This analysis raises questions about the extent to which ecological economics has been able to influence real-world decisions and policy.
Reply to article “Political Perception and Ensemble of Macro Objectives and Measures: The Paradox of the Index for Sustainable Economic Welfare” by Rafael Ziegler in Environmental Values 16, no.1, 43–60.
The article aims to provide a historical perspective on the concept of eco-innovation, its different meanings and its position in the modern debate around sustainability.
Vardy and Smith’s article for the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities argues that “resilience signals the pernicious return of structural-functionalism precisely at the moment when much more nuanced, thoughtful, and critical attention should be given to the relationships and differences between and within human and nonhuman populations.”