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The Ecological Economics of Sustainability: Making Local and Short-Term Goals Consistent with Global and Long-Term Goals
(The World Bank, 1990-06)There is increasing awareness that our global ecological We support system is endangered Decisions made on the basis of local, short-term criteria can produce disastrous results globally and in the long run. There is also ... -
NAFTA and the Future of Environmental Regulation
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An overview of international institutional mechanisms for environmental management with refererence to Arctic pollution
(The Science of the Total Environment, 1995)Evidence is mounting of the environmental impact in the Far North of economic and industrial activity elsewhere in the world. While the sources of pollutants found in the Arctic are many and widespread, it is up to just a ... -
An overview of international institutional mechanisms for environmental management with reference to Arctic pollution
(Elsevier, 1995)Evidence is mounting of the environmental impact in the Far North of economic and industrial activity elsewhere in the world. While the sources of pollutants found in the Arctic are many and widespread, it is up to just a ... -
Introduction: Women, ecology, and economics: new models and theories
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Social diversity and the sustainability of community economies
(The Bootstrap Press, 1997)Economic restructuring related to globalization is producing a bifurcation in economic activity throughout the OECD countries: a split between those workers/industries/areas which are competitive in the global market, and ... -
Trade, transition paths, and sustainable economies
(Routledge, 1999)The main criticisms of trade from a sustainability viewpoint are that it accelerates resource depletion and pollution, harms income distribution both locally and internationally, and undermines democratic institutions. ... -
Local Economies, Trade, and Global Sustainability
(Woodhead Publishing, 1999)Bioregional and "ecological economics" theory describes the growth of local economic linkages as vital to move post-industrial economies in the direction of sustainability. This involves expanding local stewardship over ... -
EQUITY, ECONOMIC SCALE, AND THE ROLE OF EXCHANGE IN A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY
(1999-05)This paper explores these theoretical and practical issues, considering the question of the environmental and ecological impacts of economic activity from the viewpoint of the scale at which this activity takes place and ... -
Diversity, local economies, and globalization’s limits
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Feminist Understanding of Productivity
(Inanna Publications and Education, 2002)The concept of productivity, meaning output per unit of input, is at once general and specific. Economists have used productivity as a very specific measure, denominated in dollars, which shows the output of a produced ... -
Public Participation and Ecological Valuation: Inclusive=Radical
(2005)This paper discusses the gender and class implications of “public participation” processes, which are increasingly used in Europe, North America, and elsewhere as a basic component of environmental and public policy ... -
Introduction: Exploring feminist ecological economics
(Feminist Economics, 2005-11)These Explorations argue that more links between the fields of feminist ecology and feminist economics are both needed and promising, and presents new, boundary-crossing research in this area. It brings together contributions ... -
Port City Relations: Global Spaces of Urban Waterfront Development
(2007)Urban waterfronts have become key sites where global restructuring processes and local interests are engaged in complex struggles that are influencing the future of cities. The author discusses three issues related to these ... -
Feminist Ecological Economics and Sustainability
(Journal of Bioeconomics, 2007)New developments in feminist ecological economics and ecofeminist economics are contributing to the search for theories and policy approaches to move economies toward sustainability. This paper summa- rizes work by ... -
Participation and Watershed Management: Experiences from Brazil
(University Press, 2007)Public participation is emphasized in many new institutional approaches to resource management, especially watershed governance. The implementation of participatory management frameworks, and capacity-building for civil ... -
Women, Equity and Participatory Water Management in Brazil
(International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2007-12)Public participation in resource management is regarded as a central pillar of sustain- able development. Water management is a foremost example, and women globally are prime users and protectors of water. Yet the ... -
UnderCurrents
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, 2008)UnderCurrents is an independent non-profit journal of critical environmental studies produced by students, faculty and staff in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Since 1988, with a brief hiatus from ... -
Urban Expansion and Industrial Nature: A Political Ecology of Toronto's Port Industrial District
(Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)This article analyses political and economic practices involved with the production of an industrial form of socio-nature - the Port Industrial District - during the early decades of the twentieth century in Toronto, Canada. ... -
An Analysis of the Ontario Power Authority’s Consideration of Environmental Sustainability in Electricity System Planning
(2008)This report focuses on the Ontario Power Authority’s (OPA) consideration of environmental sustainability in the development of the proposed Integrated Power System Plan (IPSP). The research was centred on a comparison of ...