Economics and environmental change : the challenges we face

Contents: Preface -- 1. Cconomics and environmental change : an overview -- 2. Growing economic activity and environmental change : historical and general perspectives. -- 3. Sustainable (economic) development. what is it? is it desirable? can it be achieved and if so, how? -- 4. Values, economic valuation, and the assessment of environmental and economic change. -- 5. Social embedding : its nature and role in determining our economic and environmental future. -- 6. Consumers' sovereignty : significant failures : why consumers' demands for environmental, human and animal protection are often unmet. -- 7. Biological conservation and human-induced environmental change : contemporary socio-economic challenges -- 8. Climate change : general aspects, and alterations in energy sources and use as responses -- 9. Agriculture and environmental change, especially climate change : economic challenges. -- 10. Marine ecosystems and global climate change : economic consequences, resilience and adjustment.