Getting Down to Earth
Subtitle: Practical Applications Of Ecological Economics (Intl Society for Ecological Economics)
Contributors: Jose Maria Figueres Olson (Foreword); Robert Costanza (Editor); Olman Segura (Editor); Juan Martinez-Alier (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: August 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9781559635035
Subjects: Management of land & natural resources; Sustainability; Environmental Science; Ecological Politics; Green Business; Business / Economics / Finance; Sustainable development; Science/Mathematics; Natural Resources; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Environmental economics
Description: Getting Down to Earth brings together scientists, managers, and national and international policy makers to identify practical strategies for implementing sustainability based on ecological economic principles. The book, joining a shared vision of a sustainable and desirable world with adequate analysis and innovative implementation, promises to be the "full package" necessary to achieve sustainability.

Ecological economics, a transdisciplinary approach focusing on the problems facing humanity and the life-supporting ecosystems on which we depend, is helping to foster the dialogue necessary to pull the package together and move toward newly articulated goals.