Sustainable Wellbeing Futures: A Research and Action Agenda for Ecological EconomicsRobert Costanza, Jon D. Erickson, Joshua Farley, Ida Kubiszewski Ecological economics can help create the future that most people want – a future that is prosperous, just, equitable and sustainable. This forward-thinking book lays out an alternative approach that places the sustainable wellbeing of humans and the rest of nature as the overarching goal. Each of the book’s chapters, written by a diverse collection of scholars and practitioners, outlines a research and action agenda for how this future can look and possible actions for its realisation. |
Contents
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The future we want | 16 |
2 Creating positive futures for humanity on earth | 17 |
3 Work labour and regenerative production | 27 |
4 The role of technology in achieving the future we want | 45 |
from origins to inertia to rejuvenation | 61 |
the role of ecological economics in escaping the Anthropocene and reaching for the Ecozoic | 90 |
Measuring and achieving wellbeing | 102 |
rethinking governance and ecological economics | 243 |
revisiting the monetary growth imperative through institutionalist approaches | 266 |
17 The nature and role of business in an ecological economy | 284 |
18 Principles of stakeholder engagement for ecological economics | 300 |
Integrated dynamic analysis and modelling of socioecological systems | 315 |
what is it good for? | 316 |
towards metadecision making analytics in the next generation of ecological economics | 342 |
21 A research agenda for ecological macroeconomics | 357 |
7 Frameworks and systems thinking for measuring and achieving sustainable wellbeing | 103 |
8 How ecosystem services research can advance ecological economics principles | 127 |
9 Wellbeing in the morethanhuman world | 151 |
wellbeing indicators in socioecological systems | 167 |
11 The struggle for equality and sustainability | 179 |
12 Human health and ecological economics | 188 |
The institutions we require | 209 |
13 Cultural evolution multilevel selection and institutions for cooperation | 210 |
14 Moral and ethical foundations for ecological economics | 229 |
Making the transition | 373 |
leading the way to an ecological economy | 374 |
the pluralist Commonwealth | 386 |
24 Creating a Wellbeing Economy Alliance WEAll to motivate and facilitate the transition | 399 |
Surveys of the larger community about the research agenda | 408 |
25 Ecological economic goals from emerging scholars | 409 |
results from a survey of ISEE members | 427 |
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