EPE - Entreprises pour l'Environnement Making Markets Work Better for the Poor II Review of Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development, by Herman Daly Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development. Herman E. Daly. 253 pp. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. Although I've never met him, I must admit: economist Herman Daly has had a big impact on my life. Student-initiated seminars (like most forms of activism) were rare at Princeton University at the time, but our goals were ambitious: to uncover the limits of growth economies, from the Soviet to the U.S. model. In spring 1981, Isles was born. Beyond the quixotic story of Isles' founding, why should Daly's work be important to community builders? What is the goal of the economy? As a former economist at the World Bank, Daly takes them head on in Beyond Growth with reasoned arguments and increasingly intellectual elegance. Daly clarifies that the economy is only a subset of the larger environment. Daly is the grandfather of steady state economic theory (increasingly called environmental economics). If growth is not going to lift us out of poverty, what will?
Robert Ayres (scientist) Robert Underwood Ayres (born June 29, 1932) is an American-born physicist and economist. His career has focused on the application of physical ideas, especially the laws of thermodynamics, to economics; a long-standing pioneering interest in material flows and transformations (industrial ecology or industrial metabolism) - a concept which he originated.[2] His most recent work challenges the widely held economic theory of growth. Trained as a physicist at the University of Chicago, University of Maryland, and King's College London (PhD in Mathematical Physics), Ayres has dedicated his entire professional life to advancing the environment, technology and resource end of the sustainability agenda. He remains an active researcher. Here taken from one of his books Turning Point: The End of the Growth Paradigm (London: Earthscan, 1998) is a clue to his thinking:
Clone Town Britain Clone Town Britain The groundbreaking investigation into the effects of chain stores on our high streets. June 6, 2005 // Written by: Ruth Potts,Andrew Simms,Petra Kjell Clone Town Britain: The survey results on the bland state of the nation, reveals for the first time, the balance between clone towns, border towns and home towns in the UK. The report shows how retail spaces once filled with a thriving mix of independent butchers, newsagents, tobacconists, pubs, bookshops, greengrocers and family owned general stores are fast being filled with faceless supermarket retailers, fast-food chains, mobile phone shops and global fashion outlets. nef believes Britain doesn’t have to become a nation of clone towns. Issues Local Economies Like what you read? Close Download free PDF nef publications are licensed under a Creative Commons license. Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=" More Publications Publication // April 22, 2014 No small change More Publication // April 10, 2014 More
エステナードソニック@苦情・口コミ体験談 The economic heresy of Herman Daly If economics is a religion, the World Bank is perhaps its grandest church. For the last half century, the venerable institution at 1818 H Street in Washington, D.C., has been dispatching its missionaries around the globe, spreading the theology of the free market to the heathens. And if economics is a religion, Herman Daly is its arch-heretic, a member of the high priesthood turned renegade. At last, frustrated with the institution’s unwieldy bureaucracy and antiquated policies, he resigned. It was Daly’s parting shot not only at the World Bank, but at the entire edifice of neoclassical economics. Speaking with me on the telephone from his home in Hyattsville, Md., Daly seems an unlikely rebel. Don’t Bank on It Daly’s is not the only voice crying out for change. But despite the global havoc it is wreaking, the institution means well, Daly says. Growthed Out It is because these questions strike so deeply at shared hopes and ambitions, says Daly, that most economists do not ask them.
Robert Ayres - Vitae p1 Trained as a physicist at the University of Chicago, University of Maryland, and Kings College at the University of London (PhD in Mathematical Physics), Robert Ayres has dedicated his entire professional life to advancing the environment, technology and resource end of the sustainability agenda. His major research interests include technological change, environmental economics, and such jawbreakers as "industrial metabolism" and "eco-restructuring". At various times he has acted as a consultant to the White House, National Goals Commission, Office of Management and Budget, Transport Canada, OECD, Statistics Canada, and numerous UN agencies. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Ventana Corporation (Venture Capital Fund), and set up and ran for several years the innovative program on Technology, Economy and Society at IIASA, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxemburg Austria. Back to top
For the future good of our high streets we need a better understanding of the social and economic life of local worlds in the context of global change Profound changes are occurring on high streets throughout the country. In order for policies aimed at their planning and stewardship to succeed, a greater understanding of how high streets adapt to changing economic conditions and serve their neighbourhoods is needed. Suzanne Hall argues for a multidisciplinary approach in understanding the social and economic particularities of high streets. Since late 2008, economic crises and legislated cuts have reverberated across Britain, impressing on a daily basis that we live and work in an austere and volatile present. To what extent are small urban entrepreneurs and micro socio-economic networks able to adapt to global economic change? In the context of the high street, I argue for a greater understanding of the social and economic particularities of local worlds if policies aimed at their planning and stewardship are to succeed. However, larger changes in the broader Walworth neighbourhood are imminent. About the author
Nourishing the Planet Share By Kristen Thiel Iroko trees are native to the west coast of Africa. Sometimes called Nigerian teak, their wood is tough, dense, and very durable. Their hardwood is so sought after that the trees are often poached and are now endangered in many regions of Africa. Iroko trees can serve as long-term carbon sinks. Oliver de Schutter, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, has found that Iroko trees can serve as long-term carbon sinks and can potentially play a role in the fight against climate change. When the West African Iroko tree is grown in dry, acidic soil and treated with microbes, it produces a very specific mineral. Normally, biomass (such as trees) does not store carbon dioxide—the gas is used in the process of decomposition. Iroko trees are just one of many species from Africa and the Amazon that can turn carbon in the atmosphere into mineral limestone. Are you familiar with Iroko tree restoration efforts?
Ecological economics Ecological economics/eco-economics refers to both a transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary field of academic research that aims to address the interdependence and coevolution of human economies and natural ecosystems over time and space.[1] It is distinguished from environmental economics, which is the mainstream economic analysis of the environment, by its treatment of the economy as a subsystem of the ecosystem and its emphasis upon preserving natural capital.[2] One survey of German economists found that ecological and environmental economics are different schools of economic thought, with ecological economists emphasizing strong sustainability and rejecting the proposition that natural capital can be substituted by human-made capital.[3] Ecological economics was founded as a modern movement in the works of and interactions between various European and American academics (see the section on history and development below). History and development[edit] Nature and ecology[edit]
La crise écologique exige une révolution de l’économie des services « La Terre n’est pas un don de nos parents. Ce sont nos enfants qui nous la prêtent » (maxime amérindienne) 1L’économie des services, telle qu’elle existe, est, à de rares exceptions près, a-écologique et a-sociale. 2Obstacle 1 : une prise de conscience freinée, pour de multiples raisons 1 ZenithOptimedia : (...) 3Nous entrons dans une crise écologique et sociale sans précédent historique, pouvant aller jusqu’à un « effondrement » humain mondial. 4Obstacle 2 : l’économie écologique en est à ses débuts, et elle est peu connue des économistes 5Il est difficile de penser une économie écologique et sociale (dont celle des services), compte tenu de la nécessité de se projeter bien au-delà du « long terme » des économistes (et même des cycles longs à la Kondratiev) pour intégrer une prospective écologique et humaine sur un siècle au moins, comme c’est le cas, par exemple, du rapport de Nicholas Stern (2006). Source : Citepa 20072 Sources. 1.1. 1.2.