Environmentally preferable purchasing (EPP) invokes the practice of buying products with environmentally-sound qualities—reduced packaging, reusability, energy efficiency, recycled content and rebuilt or re-manufactured products. It was first...

The changing stock of plant, animal spe cies, the physical environment and the...

Economics is frequently defined as the science of the allocation of scarce resources among alternative desirable ends. The first question this implies—What are the desired ends?—is ultimately a question of values and ethics. Most...

Although ecology and economics share the common root "eco-" (from Greek Oikos or household), these disciplines have tended to be at odds with each other in recent years over issues such as the feasibility of continued economic growth...

Ecological economics or green economics is a transdisciplinary field of academic research that addresses the dynamic and spatial interdependence between human economies and natural ecosystems. Ecological economics brings together and connects different...

IS A SWAMP worth more than a shopping mall? Perhaps not, at first blush. But what if we discover that the swamp is cleaning sewage and trapping atmospheric carbon? Does its "value" increase? If so, by how much? How many such valuable services...

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS. By Peter Soderbaum, London, Earthscan Publishers Limited, 2000, Pp. 225, $69.95 cloth/$25.00 paper. In Ecological Economics, Peter Soderbaum presents an open-minded approach to studying environmental problems. He begins by characterizing the traditional (neo-classical) model of environmental problems. Soderbaum argues that...

Even coral reefs thought to be pristine are facing challenges, researchers said Thursday launching the International Year of the Reef. The year of the reef is a "campaign to highlight the importance of coral reef ecosystems and to motivate people to protect them," Conrad Lautenbacher,...