Economics and Environmental Change

Contents Preface 1. Economics and environmental change: an overview 2. Growing economic activity and environmental change: historical and general perspectives. 3. Sustainable (economic) development. What is it? Is it desirable? Can it be achieved and if so, how? 4. Values, economic valuation, and the assessment of environmental and economic change. 5. Social embedding: its nature and role in determining our economic and environmental future. 6. Consumers' sovereignty - significant failures: why consumers' demands for environmental, human and animal protection are often unmet. 7. Biological conservation and human-induced environmental change: contemporary socio-economic challenges 8. Climate change: general aspects, and alterations in energy sources and use as responses 9. Agriculture and environmental change, especially climate change: economic challenges. 10. Marine ecosystems and global climate change: economic consequences, resilience and adjustment Index

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• Economia ambiental
• Conservação da vida selvagem e do seu habitat
• Biodiversidade