Economics, Sustainability, and Natural Resources Economics of Sustai
The economics of sustainability is much more complex than the neoclassical (Newtonian) economic approach to economic efficiency. Forest resources provide the ideal starting point for the economic analysis of sustainability. This book provides a systematic
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Economics, Sustainability, and Natural Resources Economics of Sustainable Forest Management
Edited by Shashi Kant and R. Albert Berry
ECONOMICS, SUSTAINABILITY, AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Economics, Sustainability, and Natural Resources Economics of Sustainable Forest Management
Edited by
SHASHI KANT Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Canada and
R. ALBERT A BERRY Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN ISBN ISBN ISBN
1-4020-3465-2 (HB) 978-1-4020-3465-7 (HB) 1-4020-3518-7 (e-book) 978-1-4020-3518-0 (e-book)
Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springeronline.com
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Dedicated to Hoshwati Yadav, Rachel Carson, and Maurizio Merlo
Companion volume: Institutions, Sustainability, and Natural Resources: Institutions for Sustainable Forest Management
CONTENTS
Figures and Tables About the Contributors Series Preface Preface and Acknowledgements
ix xi xv xvii
1. Sustainability, Economics, and Forest Management Shashi Kant and R. Albert Berry
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PART ONE: COMPLEXITY, ETHICS, AND THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT 2. Complexity, Muddling Through, and Sustainable Forest Management David Colander
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3. Inter-temporal Ethics, Modern Capital Theory and the Economics of Sustainable Forest Management M. Ali Khan
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PART TWO: CONSUMER CHOICE THEORY AND THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT 4. Post-Keynesian Consumer Choice Theory for the Economics of Sustainable Forest Management Marc Lavoie 5. Behavioral Economics and Sustainable Forest Management Jack L. Knetsch 6. How Sustainable is Discounting? Colin Price
67 91 105
PART THREE: SOCIAL CHOICE THEORY AND THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT 7. Intergenerational Equity and the Forest Management Problem Tapan Mitra
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8. Can Stock-specific Sustainability Constraints be justified? Geir B. Asheim, and Wolfgang Buchholz
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ECONOMICS, SUSTAINABILITY, AND NATURAL RESOURCES
PART FOUR: NON-LINEARITIES, MULTIPLE EQUILIBRIA AND THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT 9. Complexities of Dynamic Forest Management Policies J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. 10. Nonlinearities, Biodiversity Conservation, and Sustainable Forest Management Jeffrey R. Vincent and Matthew D. Potts 11. Joint Forest Management: Experience and Modeling Milindo Chakrabarti, Samar K. Datta, E. Lance Howe, and Jeffrey B. Nugent
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PART FIVE: EPILOGUE 12. Post-Newtonian Economics and Sustainable Forest
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