A Research Agenda for Environmental Economics

Elgar Research Agendas

Edited by Matthias Ruth, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, University of York, UK

Presenting critical insights on how economic activity is constrained by the environment’s ability to provide material and energy resources, this timely Research Agenda explores how humanity shapes, and is shaped by, environmental change and sustainability challenges. Chapters highlight how, under these constraints, people may seek to improve their lives and standards of living without undermining the abilities of others to do so now or in the future.

‘An insightful collection of articles identifying major areas in which ecological economics is resuscitating the moribund orthodoxy of "economics as usual.”’
– Herman Daly, University of Maryland, College Park, US