Getting down to earth: Practical applications of ecological economics Author Constanza R., Segura O., Martinez-Alier J. (eds) Date 1996 Source IUCN (ID: MON-060242) Publisher | Place of publication Island Press | Washington, DC, USA ISBN 1-55963-503-7; £ 29.95 Pages 472 p. Language English Field of application International Country/Territory Costa Rica Subject Environment gen. Keyword Economy and environment Sustainable development Property rights Geographical area Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Central Europe Abstract Contents: 1. Integrated envisioning, analysis, and implementation of a sustainable and desirable society 2. Socio-ecological principles for a sustainable society 3. Consumption: value added, phyiscal transformation and welfare 4. Complexity, problem solving and sustainable societies 5. From ecological economics to productive ecology: Perspectives on sustainable development from the South 6. Social and ethical dimensions of ecological economics 7. Envisioning a sustainable world 8. Towards an economics for environmental sustainability 9. Ecological and economic distribution conflicts 10. Technological intensity, technological quality and sustainable development 11. Renewable resource appropriation by Cities 12. Emergent complexity and procedural rationality: Post- normal science for sustainability 13. Integrating spatially explicit ecological and economic models: Theory and application in the Patuxent river watershed, Maryland 14. Ecological economics: The second stage 15. Modeling the dynamics of resource depletion, substition, recycling and technical change in extractive industries 16. Institutional change and development towards sustainability 17. Creating the institutional setting for sustainability in Latin America 18. Applying agroecology to improve peasant farming systems in Latin America: An impact assessment of NGO strategies 19. Property rights, people, and the environment 20. Will new property rights regimes in Central and Eastern Europe serve nature conservation purposes? 21. Valuing social sustainability: Environmental recuperation on Fevela Hillsides in Rio de Janeiro 22. Resources planning should integrate conservation and development needs: The case of Tegucigalpa's water requirements 23. The political dimension of implementing environmental reform: Lessons from Costa Rica 24. Envisioning sustainable alternatives within the framework of the UNCED process