Books
From the launch of Ecological Economics, the Book Review section has served an important role. It has informed readers about important books that are relevant to our field, but due to the inevitable time it takes to review, contemplate and critique the contents of a book we have not been able to rely on the Book Review section as a source for the most recent publications in the field. Of course, we all could actually read the stack of catalogues we find every week in our mailboxes, but very few of us have time to do so.
Thus, to aid the constant quest for new and noteworthy books we have decided to expand the Book Review section to include a list of newly published books that are of interest to the readers of the journal. The list will appear quarterly and include information on new books that were published during the three preceding months. The first such list is published in this issue and includes books that were published in the fall of 2002 and in the winter months of 2002-03.
Please note this list is a selective distillation from the large number of catalogues and books we receive from a wide range of publishers. It is not meant to be an exhaustive compilation of every book that might be of relevance to Ecological Economics. Readers are encouraged to send me information about their own new books, or those written by others that may be of interest to our readers.
I look forward to your comments and feedback.
Brynhildur Davidsdottir,
Book Review Editor
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Last chance for special discount! Oxford University Press Special Offer Gender and Green Governance – The Political Economy of Women’s Presence Within and Beyond Community Forestry by Bina Agarwal A personal copy of Bina Agarwal’s Gender and Green Governance (Oxford University Press, Oxford) at special price of £17 (reduced from £68). Offer ends 29 February, [...click title for full article...]
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Oxford University Press Special Offer on Gender and Green Governance The Political Economy of Women’s Presence Within and Beyond Community Forestry by Bina Agarwal A personal copy of Bina Agarwal’s Gender and Green Governance (Oxford University Press, Oxford) at special price of £17 (reduced from £68). OFFER OPEN ONLY FROM 16 JANUARY TO 29 [...click title for full article...]
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Ecological Economics: Sustainability in Practice S.E. Shmelev, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK In a concise and crisp manner, this book presents the state of the art in ecological economics, an interdisciplinary field focused on the analysis of sustainability of global, national and regional economic systems. An elegant guide, the book offers a range of cutting [...click title for full article...]
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Title: Ecological economics: energy, environment, and society Authors: Juan Martínez Alier, Klaus Schlüpmann Edition: Reprint Publisher: B. Blackwell, 1990 ISBN: 0631171460, 9780631171461 Length: 287 pages Title: The Environmentalism of the Poor Author: Juan Martinez-Alier Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002 Length: 312 pages "The Environmentalism of the Poor has the explicit intention of helping to establish [...click title for full article...]
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Virtual water: tackling the threat to our planet’s most precious resource (2011) by Tony Allan – www.ibtauris.com The water footprint assessment manual: Setting the global standard (2011) by Arjen Hoekstra et al. – www.waterfootprint.org/?page=files/WaterFootprintAssessmentManual Corporate water strategies (2011) by William Sarni – www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=102569 The green blue book (2010) by Thomas Kostigen – www.thegreenbluebook.com Water footprint [...click title for full article...]
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Handbook on Trade and Environment Edited by Kevin P. Gallagher Edward Elgar, 2008 The related crises associated with global finance, energy, climate change, and food have brought new urgency to debates over international trade and sustainable development. Increasingly, policy-makers, advocates and academics are looking for solutions to these crises that allow the economy to prosper [...click title for full article...]
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The Political Economy of Women’s Presence Within and Beyond Community Forestry Bina Agarwal Director and Professor of Economics, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, India Economists studying environmental collective action and green governance have paid little attention to gender. Research on gender and green governance in other disciplines has focused mainly on women’s near [...click title for full article...]
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Stanford University Press is pleased to announce "an excellent and timely guide for students on the evolution of microeconomic theory" Microeconomic Theory Old and New A Student’s Guide John M. Gowdy This book presents the core model of contemporary economic theory and policy, Walrasian economics, and presents a systematic behavioral and theoretical critique of that [...click title for full article...]
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The first edition of Introduction to Ecological Economics, originally, published by in 1997 by St. Lucie Press, has recently been put up on the Encyclopedia of Earth. Read the ISEE press release or the actual e-book. (Press Release)
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Edited by Marnina Fischer-Kowalski and Helmut Haberl, Edward Elgar, May 2007 Contributors include: N. Eisenmenger, K.H. Erb, M. Fischer-Kowalski, C.M. Grunbuhel, H. Haberl, F. Krausmann, J. Ramos Martin, H. Schandl, S.J. Singh Foreword by Joan Martinez-Alier This new book analyses fundamental changes in society-nature interaction: the socioeconomic use of materials, energy and land. The volume [...click title for full article...]
