Ecological Economics

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• Modelling a social-ecological poverty trap due to infectious disease

  
  Resilience Science — Authority: 431
  In an interesting article Poverty trap formed by the ecology of infectious diseases (Proc Royal Soc B 2009) Mathew Bonds and others, describes how they couple a simple infectious disease model with an simple economic development model to produce model of a infectious disease induced poverty trap.  They write:The ...
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• Mapping global flows of virtual green and blue water

  
  Resilience Science — Authority: 431
  Green and blue virtual-water ‘flows’ related to wheat trade by major exporting and importing nations (km3/year).The size of each pie is determined by the amount of virtual water ‘traded’.Countries with virtual-water ‘exports’ are depicted in green and countries with virtual-water ‘import’ in red; the ...
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• Copenhagen, India, China, the US, and GAIA

  
  popular logistics — Authority: 120
  Im beginning to think that Copenhagen was what it had to be, what it could only be. It fulfilled its Buddha-nature . Thus, I dont consider it a failure. Nor do I consider it a success. It was what it was, what it could have been, what it had to be: A gathering of emissaries from the 64 corners of the earth. ...
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• Thinking Entropically

  
  Gaian Economics — Authority: 116
  As my Christmas gift this festive season I hand you an interesting concept, which has kept me entertained during several recent train journeys. It is the concept of entropy. To understand entropy you need to have a scientific mind, so I am at something of a disadvantage. Here is how a scientific friend of mine, Steve ...
  1 week ago

• Economics of ecosystems and biodiversity study available

  
  Resilience Science — Authority: 431
  The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity study (TEEB) is synthesizing information on the economics  of conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity, attempting to do for Biodiversity what the Stern report has done for climate change.The study is drawing on expertise from around the world to evaluate the costs of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Copenhagen, Climate Change, China, and Dessert

  
  popular logistics — Authority: 120
  Earlier today one of my friends handed me a copy of some satire published in the New York Post , an info-taiment rag, on the subject of "Climate-Gate."  At about the same time, Roger Saillant, co-author of Vapor Trails , who heads the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value at Case Western Reserve University ...
  3 weeks ago

• Economists and economics

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 134
  See also: U.S. economy 2009 ; World economy Economy on Wednesday-night.com Economists, like physicists, have been searching for a theory of everything. If there were to be such an economic theory, there is really only one candidate, based on extreme rationality and market efficiency. Any other theory would ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gulf recovery panel gets an earful about corps

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 441
  Greenwire : A group of New Orleans residents yesterday vented their frustration with the Army Corps of Engineers during a working group meeting aimed at developing policy for coastal and wetlands restoration . A panel of federal agency officials heard from coastal residents during the first of three days of meetings ...
  4 weeks ago

• Avoiding Societal, Economic, and Ecological Collapse

  
  The Sustainable Dwelling Blog — Authority: 99
  “A society has collapsed when it displays a rapid, significant loss of an established level of sociopolitical complexity.” – The Collapse of Complex Societies – Joseph Tainter “Any society that displays broad increases in most measures of capital production coupled with signs of serious depletion of key ...
  4 weeks ago

• Agro-colonialism and/or Agricultural development?

  
  Resilience Science — Authority: 431
  The New York Times Magazine has an article by Andrew Rice Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism? on new mega-investments in agricultural land in Africa.This type of activity featured in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment’s TechnoGarden scenario as something that can have complicated ecological and social ...
  4 weeks ago

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