Review—The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services
Book title: The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services
Book authors: J.B. Ruhl, S. E. Kraft, and C. L. Lant
Reviewer: Dr. Robert Costanza
Appeared in: Ecological Restoration
PDF: Costanza_Ruhl_et_al._2007_.pdf
Creating an Earth Atmospheric Trust
Title: Creating an Earth Atmospheric Trust
Authors: Peter Barnes, Robert Costanza, Paul Hawken, David Orr, Elinor Ostrom, Alvaro Umana, Oran Young
Date: 8 February 2008
Journal: Science
Volume: 319
Pages: 725-726
Open PDF: Barnes, Costanza et al. 2008
Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature
Title: Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature
Authors: Andrew Balmford, Aaron Bruner, Philip Cooper, Robert Costanza, Stephen Farber, Rhys E. Green, Martin Jenkins, Paul Jefferiss, Valma Jessamy, Joah Madden, Kat Munro, Norman Myers, Shahid Naeem, Jouni Paavola, Matthew Rayment, Sergio Rosendo, Joan Roughgarden, Kate Trumper, R. Kerry Turner
Date: 9 August 2002
Journal: Science
Volume: 297
Pages: 950-953
Open PDF: Balmford et al 2002
Principles for Sustainable Governance of the Oceans
Title: Principles for Sustainable Governance of the Oceans
Authors: Robert Costanza, Francisco Andrade, Paula Antunes, Marjan van den Belt, Dee Boersma, Donald F. Boesch, Fernando Catarino, Susan Hanna, Karin Limburg, Bobbi Low, Michael Molitor, Joao Gil Pereira, Steve Rayner, Rui Santos, James Wilson, Michael Young
Date: 10 July 1998
Journal: Science
Volume: 281
Pages: 198-199
Open PDF: Costanza et al. 1998
The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital
Title: The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital
Authors: Robert Costanza, Ralph d’Arge, Rudolf de Groot, Stephen Farberk, Monica Grasso, Bruce Hannon, Karin Limburg, Shahid Naeem, Robert V. O’Neill, Jose Paruelo, Robert G. Raskin, Paul Suttonkk, & Marjan van den Belt
Date: May 15, 1997
Journal: Nature
Volume: 387
Pages: 253-260
Open PDF: Costanza et al. 1997 (Nature)
The nature of human altruism
Title: The nature of human altruism
Authors: Ernst Fehr & Urs Fischbacher
Date: 23 October 2003
Journal: Nature
Volume: 425
Pages: 785-791
Open PDF: Fehr’s - The nature of human altruism.pdf
Altruism, evolution, and welfare economics
Title: Altruism, evolution, and welfare economics
Author: John M. Gowdy
Year: 2004
Journal: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Volume: 53
Pages: 69-73
Open PDF: Gowdy_economic_altruism_2004.pdf
Wants
Source: New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Authors: Mary Douglas
Article: “Wants”
Economic Man
Source: New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Authors: Shuan Hargreaves-Heap and Martin Hollis
Article: “Economic Man”
The early history of modern ecological economics
Authors: Inge Ropke
Date published: 2005
Journal: Ecological Economics
Issue: 50
Pages: 293-314
Full article: Ropke_2004.pdf
Trends in the development of ecological economics from the late 1980s to the early 2000s
Authors: Inge Ropke
Date published: 2005
Journal: Ecological Economics
Issue: 55
Pages: 262-290
Full article: Ropke_2005.pdf
Stewardship for a “Full” World
Authors: Robert Costanza
Date published: 2008
Publisher: Current History
Issue: 107
Pages: 30-35
Full article: Costanza_Stewardship_2008.pdf
Sustainability or Collapse
Authors: Robert Costanza, Lisa Graumlich, Will Steffen, Carole Crumley, John Dearing, Kathy Hibbard, Rik Leemans, Charles Redman and David Schimel
Date published: 2007
Publisher: Ambio—Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Full article: Costanza_2007_Ambio.pdf
Abstract: Understanding the history of how humans have interacted with the rest of nature can help clarify the options for managing our increasingly interconnected global system. Simple, deterministic relationships between environmental stress and social change are inadequate. Extreme drought, for instance, triggered both social collapse and ingenious management of water through irrigation. Human responses to change, in turn, feed into climate and ecological systems, producing a complex web of multidirectional connections in time and space. Integrated records of the co-evolving human-environment system over millennia are needed to provide a basis for a deeper understanding of the present and for forecasting the future. This requires the major task of assembling and integrating regional and global historical, archaeological, and paleoenvironmental records. Humans cannot predict the future. But, if we can adequately understand the past, we can use that understanding to influence our decisions and to create a better, more sustainable and desirable future.
Envisioning shared goals for humanity: a detailed shared vision of a sustainable and desirable USA
Authors: Joshua Farley, Robert Costanza
Date published: 2002
Publisher: Ecological Economics
Full article: Farley-Costanza_2002.pdf
Abstract: Economics has been defined as the science of allocation of scarce resources towards alternative ends. This definition implies that the first step in economic analysis is to determine what ends are desirable for society. Most sectors of the society would agree that sustainability is a desirable end, but there is little agreement as to what a sustainable future would look like. The University of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics sponsored a democratic future search process designed to create a relatively detailed, shared vision of a sustainable and desirable USA in the year 2100. This paper presents the vision developed at that conference, examines the resources required to achieve the vision, and assesses the suitability of market mechanisms for allocating the required resources towards the desired ends. We find that markets are not efficient mechanisms for allocation in this case, and propose the institutions of a ‘strong democracy’ as a promising alternative.
