Reuniting Economy and Ecology in Sustainable Development

Editor`s Note -- Authors -- 1 Origins of Sustainability -- Beginning Perspectives -- Modern Origins of the Growth Debate -- The Problem and Its Crisis -- Science and the Natural World -- Questioning the Economics of Growth -- The Institutional and Political Imperative -- Toward a Philosophy of Sufficiency -- Summarizing and Looking Forward -- 2 Economics from the Ground Up -- Background -- In Search of Community Economic Theory -- Some Historic Economic Phases -- Cave Economics -- Tribal Economics -- Village Economics -- City Economics -- National Economics -- Global Economics -- Summing Up -- 3 Visioning^ Countings and Valuing -- Two Economic Visions -- The Throughput Economy -- Resource Endowments -- Waste Disposal -- The Spaceship Earth Model -- Assessing the Scorecard -- Three Problems with Gross Domestic Product -- Attempting to Change -- The Language of Values -- Two Broad Categories -- Alternative World Views -- The Pyramid of Values -- Demand and Values—A Final Note -- 4 Recognizing the Growth Ethic in Your Community -- Economics of Looking at Your Community -- What Are the Costs of Growth? -- Who Pays and Who Benefits? -- Recognizing the Rhetoric -- Prosperity Begins at Home -- Don`t You Appreciate Cultural Diversity? -- Think of Your Children -- Livability and the Price of Housing -- The Landowner as King -- Slow versus Rapid Growth -- Conclusion -- A Personal Note -- 5 Recycling in Theory and Practice -- Recycling in Practice -- Recycling as Impossibility-Irreversibility -- The Symbolism of Recycling -- An Example: Seeing Things Whole -- Extracting the Principles -- 6 Toward Practical Use of Sustainability -- A Citizen’s Simulation -- Practical Difficulties with Conceptual Sustainability -- Why Does It Matter? -- The Political “Middle Way” -- Marginal Sustainability -- 7 Globalization and Sustainability -- Globalization Is Here, Now, and Real -- Profits: The Driving Force Behind Globalization -- Prospecting for Profits -- Financial Feeding Frenzy -- The Defense of Globalization -- Sustainability versus Globalization -- Endnotes -- Bibliography.