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New collection on ecological economics

Perrings, C. 2008. Ecological Economics, Vols I-IV, London, SAGE.

This four volume collection covers the origins and development of the field of ecological economics. Volume I traces the roots of the field by identifying the sources of key ideas in the two hundred years before the term ecological economics was coined.  It argues that most important progenitors of the field were Thomas Malthus, John Stewart Mill, Charles Darwin, Harold Hotelling and Scott Gordon.  Volume 2 examines the way in which ecological economists model coupled ecological-economic systems. It covers the structure of the joint system, the feedbacks between the economic and ecological components, the (spatial) dynamics of the system, and the impact of alternative institutions on the management and control of the ecological component of the system. Volume III focuses on the economics of ecosystem services, and includes critical contributions on the value of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and the derivation that value from people’s willingness to pay for final goods and services. Volume IV concentrates on the development and implementation of the concept of sustainability. It includes both important baseline documents, such as the Brundtland Report, and later attempts to explore both the theory and practice of sustainable management of coupled ecological-economic systems.

Papers

Perrings C. 2007.  Going beyond panaceas: future challenges, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:15179–15180. PDF

McShane, T.O. and S. O’Connor 2007. Hard choices: understanding the trade-offs between conservation and development. In Protected Areas and Human Livelihoods. eds. K.H. Redford and E. Fearn, 145-152.

Ceddia M.G., Bartlett M. and Perrings C. 2007. Landscape gene flow, coexistence and threshold effect: The case of genetically modified herbicide tolerant oilseed rape (Brassica napus), Ecological Modelling 205: 169-180. PDF

Dehnen-Schmutz K., Touza J, Perrings C. and Williamson M. 2007. The horticultural trade and ornamental plant invasions in Britain, Conservation Biology 21(1): 224–231. PDF

Dehnen-Schmutz K., Touza J., Perrings C. and Williamson M. 2007 A century of the ornamental plant trade and its impact on invasion success, Diversity and Distributions 13: 527–534. PDF

Di Falco S. and Perrings C. 2006. Cooperatives, diversity and crop productivity in Southern Italy. In M. Smale (ed) Valuing crop biodiversity: on farm resources and genetic change, CABI Publishing, Wallingford: 270-279.

Di Falco S., Smale M. and Perrings C. 2007. The role of agricultural cooperatives in sustaining wheat diversity and productivity: the case of southern Italy, Environmental and Resource Economics, in press. PDF

Gioria, M. and Osborne, B.  2006. The soil seed bank associated with invasive populations of Heracleum mantegazzianum Sommier and Levier. Proceedings of the 15th Irish Environmental Researchers’ Colloquium, 28-30 January 2005, IT Sligo, Ireland

Gioria, M. and Osborne, B.  2007. The soil seed bank of two invasive species, Gunnera tinctoria and Heracleum mantegazzianum, in Ireland. In: B. Tokarska-Guzik, J. Brock, G. Brundu, L. Child, C. Daehler, and P. Pyšek (eds.). Plant Invasions: human perception, ecological impacts and management. Backhuys Publ., Leiden, The Netherlands (in press).

Kasulo V. and Perrings C. 2006. Fishing down the value chain: Biodiversity and access regimes in freshwater fisheries — the case of Malawi, Ecological Economics 59: 106 – 114. PDF

Kinzig, A.P., D. Starrett, B. Bolin, P. Dasgupta, P. Ehrlich, C. Folke, M. Hanneman, A.M. Jansson, B.O. Jansson, N. Kautsky, S. Levin, J. Lubchenco, K.G. Mäler, S. Pacala, S. Schneider, D. Siniscalco, and B. Walker. 2003. Coping with uncertainty: A call for a new science-policy forum. Ambio 32(5):330-3

Kinzig, A.P., P. Warren, C. Martin. D. Hope, & M. Katti. 2005. The effects of human socioeconomic status and cultural characteristics on urban patterns of biodiversity. Ecology and Society 10(5). Link

Kinzig, A.P., W.C. Clark, O. Edonhofer, G.C. Gallopin, W. Lucht, R.B. Mitchell, P. Romero Lankao, S. Sreekresh, C. Tickell, and O.R. Young. 2004. Science, society, and sustainability. Pp. 409-434 in Earth System Analysis for Sustainability, J. Schellnhuber,  P. Crutzen, W.C. Clark, M. Claussen, and H. Held, eds. MIT Press.

Loreau M., Oteng-Yeboah A., Arroyo M. T. K., Babin D., Barbault R., Donoghue M., Gadgil M., Häuser C., Heip C., Larigauderie A., Ma K., Mace G., Mooney H.A., Perrings C., Raven P., Sarukhan J., Schei P., Scholes R.J. and Watson R.T.. 2006. Diversity without representation, Nature 442, 245-246. PDF

Pascual U. and Perrings C. 2007. Developing incentives and economic mechanisms for in situ biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes, Agriculture, Ecosystems and the Environment, 121: 256–268. PDF

Perrings C. 2006. Ecological economics after the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics 6: 8-22. PDF

Perrings C. 2006. Environment, poverty and development, in  J. Boyce, S. Cullenberg, P.K. Pattanaik and R. Pollin (eds) Human Development in the Era of Globalization:  Essays in Honour of Keith B. Griffin, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham: 199-210.

Perrings C. 2006. Resilience and sustainable development, Environment and Development Economics 11: 417–427. PDF

Perrings C. 2007.  Going beyond panaceas: future challenges, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:15179–15180

Perrings C. 2007. Pests, pathogens and poverty: biological invasions and agricultural dependence, in A. Kontoleon, U. Pascual and T. Swanson (eds) Biodiversity Economics: Principles, Methods and Applications, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 133-165.

Perrings C; Jackson, L; Bawa, K; Brussaard, L; Brush, S; Gavin, T; Papa, R; Pascual, U; De Ruiter, P. 2006. Conservation Biology 20(2): 263–264. PDF

Walker, B.H., J.M. Anderies, A.P. Kinzig, and P. Ryan, eds. 2006. Exploring Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems: Comparative Studies and Theory Development. A Special Issue in Ecology and Society [online]. Volume 11, issue 1. Link

Wätzold F., Drechsler M., Armstrong C.W., Baumgärtner S., Grimm V., Huth A., Perrings C., Possingham H., Shogren J., Skonhoft A., Verboom-Vasiljev J. and Wissel C. 2006. Ecological-Economic Modeling for Biodiversity Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Prospects, Conservation Biology 20(4): 1034–1041. PDF