In Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene, ecological economists ask whether their insights are unfinished, as problematic as they are promising. Their challenges are provocative and insightful. With the planet in jeopardy, sustaining community and saving the biosphere is as vital, and morally required, as sustaining growth.
Holmes Rolston III, Colorado State University Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene is about ... Read morethe relationship between life and the world that supports it. Three basic concepts-membership, householding, and entropic thrift-are used to explain this relationship and to demonstrate the strong connection between ecological economics and justice.
Herman E. Daly, University of Maryland A nuanced and quite interesting set of contributions concerning the ethical dimensions of ecological economics, providing a transdisciplinary vision for governing the economy as an embedded subsystem of social and ecological systems.
Richard Howarth, Dartmouth College We urgently need both a new ethic and a new economics to guide us into the Anthropocene Age. This timely collection underscores the challenges that any new ecological economics must overcome. It offers many rich resources, drawn from an impressively diverse range of disciplines, traditions, and cultures, to help philosophers, economists, and others as we try to imagine how life in the Anthropocene will transform our moral and economic thinking.
Tim Mulgan, University of St Andrews and University of Auckland, author of Ethics for a Broken World Show Less