Linking the Natural Environment and the Economy: Essays from the Eco-Eco Group
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Ecology, Economy & Environment VOLUME I
Linking the Natural Environment and the Economy: Essays from the Eco-Eco Group edited by
Carl Folke Department of Systems Ecology, Divisions of Marine Ecology and Natural Resources Management, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden and
Tomas Kaberger Physical Resource Theory Group, Chalmers University of Technology, and the Swedish Society for the Conservation of Nature, Gothenburg, Sweden
Springer Science+Business Media, B.V.
ISBN 978-90-481-4089-3 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-6406-3
ISBN 978-94-017-6406-3 (eBook)
Printed on acid-free paper Ali Rigbll Resemld @ 1991 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1991
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CONTENTS:
Preface and Acknowledgements
vii
Dedication to Johan Ashuwd
ix
PART I PERSPECI'IVES ON ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMY
Chapter 1. Chapter2. Chapter 3. Chapter4. ChapterS.
The Contextual Features of the Economy-Ecology Dialogue UnoSvedin Actors, Roles, and Networks: An Institutional Perspective to Environmental Problems Peter SOderbaum Economic Analysis of Environmental Impacts JanBojo Measuring Instrumental Value in Energy Terms Tomas KtJberger Socio-Economic Dependence on the Life-Supporting Environment CarlFolke
3 31 43 61
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PARTU THE ROLE AND VALUE OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
Chapter6.
Chapter?. ChapterS.
Ecological Consequences of Long-Term landscape Transformations in Relation to Energy Use and Economic Development AM Marilansson Arable land as a Resource Knut Per Hasund The Societal Value of Wetland Life-Support CarlFolke
97 111 141
VI Chapter 9.
Costs for Nitrogen Source Reduction in a Eutrophicated Bay in Sweden
/ng-Marie Andreasson-Gren Chapter 10.
Marine Ecosystem Support to Fisheries and Fish Trade
Monica Hammer
173
189
PARTm
ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Chapter 11.
Use and Impacts of Chemical Pesticides in Smallholder Agriculture in the Central Kenya Highlands
Chapter 12.
Multinational Firms and Pollution in Developing Countries
Carl Christiansson
Thomas Andersson
Chapter 13.
213 237
Environmental Conservation for Development in Central America
JohanAshuvud
253
PART IV SYNTHESIS Chapter 14.
Recent Trends in Unking the Natural Environment and the Economy
Carl Folke and Tomas Kdberger
273
The Eco-Eco Group
301
Notes on the Contnbutors
303
Preface Severe environmental degradation and global environmental problems have brought the issue of sustainable development into the forefront throughout the world. The recent opening up of Eastern Europe has harshly illustrated the dependence of socio-economic systems on healthy environments and functional ecosystems. The Brundtland Report has been an important document
