Economic development and environmental protection: An ecological economics perspective

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 29-45

  Rees, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carrying capacity; Dissipative structure; Ecological crisis; Ecological deficit; Ecological economics; Ecological footprints; Expansionism; Growth model; Human ecological dysfunction; Human evolution; Natural capital; Paradigm; Paradigm shift; Patch disturbance; Second law of thermodynamics; Self organization; Social Capital; Steady state; Sustainability; Wordview

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EMPIRICAL GROUNDS;

ECOLOGY;

COAL; MINERAL; PETROLEUM; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

CARRYING CAPACITY; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SUSTAINABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ACID RAIN; AGRICULTURE; AQUIFER; BIODIVERSITY; CAPITAL; CORAL REEF; DEGRADATION; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECOSYSTEM; EMPIRICISM; ENERGY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESTUARY; FISHERY; FOREST; GRASSLAND; GREENHOUSE GAS; LANDSCAPE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MINING; REVIEW; SALT MARSH; SOIL; SOIL EROSION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL VALUES; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 0038756359     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024098417023     Document Type: Review

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