Sustainability: Political Economy, Science, and Policy

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• [A] = Allenby, Braden R. Industrial Ecology: Policy Framework and Implementation . Prentice-Hall, 1998. ISBN: 9780139211805.
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• [AS] = Ashford, Nicholas A., and Ralph P. Hall. Technology, Globalization and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State . Yale University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780300169720.
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• [B] = Becker, Egon, and Thomas Jahn, eds. Sustainability and the Social Sciences: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Integrating Environmental Considerations into Theoretical Reorientation . Zed Books, 1999. ISBN: 9781856497091.
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• [C] = Buy at MIT Press Choucri, Nazli, ed. Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses . MIT Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780262531344. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• [CH] = Choucri, Nazli, Dinisha Mistree, et al. Mapping Sustainability: Knowledge e-Networking and the Value Chain . Springer Press, 2014. ISBN: 9789400799851. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• [CO] = Costanza, Robert, ed. Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability . Columbia University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780231075633.
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• [E] = Buy at MIT Press Easterly, William. The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics . MIT Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780262550420. ↗
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• [L] = Lang, Winifred, ed. Sustainable Development and International Law (International Environmental Law and Policy Series) . Springer, 1995. ISBN: 9781859661796.
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• [O] = Ostrom, Elinor, Larry Schroeder, et al. Institutional Incentives and Sustainable Development: Infrastructure Policies in Perspective . Westview Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780813316192.
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• [P] = Buy at MIT Press Pirages, Dennis, and Ken Cousins, eds. From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security: Exploring New Limits to Growth . MIT Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780262661898. ↗
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• [S] = Stavins, Robert N., ed. Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings . 5th edition. Edited by Robert N. Stavins. W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. ISBN: 9780393927016.
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• [ST] = Stavins, Robert N., ed. Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings . 6th edition. W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. ISBN: 9780393913408.
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• [T] = Tainter, Joseph A. The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) . Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780521386739. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• [TE] = Buy at MIT Press Tester, Jefferson W., Elisabeth M. Drake, et al, eds. Sustainable Energy: Choosing Among Options . 2nd edition. MIT Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780262017473. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• [S] Hardin, Garrett. Chapter 2: The Tragedy of the Commons.
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• [ST] Solow, Robert M. Chapter 28: Sustainability: An Economist’s Perspective.
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• Solow, Robert M. “ Richard T. Ely Lecture: The Economics of Resources or the Resources of Economics .” American Economic Review 64, no. 2 (1974): 1–14. (Papers and Proceedings of the Eighty-sixth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association) ↗
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• Goodland, Robert, and George Ledec. “ Neoclassical Economics and Principles of Sustainable Development .” Ecological Modeling 38 (1987): 19–46. ↗
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• Holdren, John P., Gretchen C. Daily, et al. “The Meaning of Sustainability: Biogeophysical Aspects.” Chapter 1 in Defining and Measuring Sustainability: The Biogeophysical Foundations . Edited by Mohan Munasinghe and Walter Shearer. World Bank, 1995. ISBN: 9780821331347.
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• [T] Chapter 1: Introduction to Collapse.
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• [B] Reboratti, Carlos E. Chapter 11: Territory, Scale and Sustainable Development.
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• Pezzey, John C. V., and Michael A. Toman. “Progress and Problems in the Economics of Sustainability.” Chapter 4 in The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 2002 / 2003 A Survey of Current Issues (New Horizons in Environmental Economics) . Edited by Tom Tietenberg and Henk Folmer. Edward Elgar Publications, 2003. ISBN: 9781843762133.
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• [CO] Hardin, Garrett. Chapter 4: Paramount Positions in Ecological Economics.
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• [E] Chapter 8: Tales of Increasing Returns: Leaks, Matches, and Traps.
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• [CH] Choucri, Nazli. Chapter 1: Mapping Sustainability: Logic and Framework.
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• [T] Chapter 2: The Nature of Complex Societies.
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• [A] Chapter 3: Sustainable Development.
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• [CO] Christensen, Paul. Chapter 6: Driving Forces, Increasing Returns and Ecological Sustainability.
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• [ST] Simpson, R. David. Chapter 25: Economic Analysis and Ecosystems: Some Concepts and Issues.
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• Buy at MIT Press Choucri, Nazli. “Cyber Content: Leveraging Knowledge and Networking.” Chapter 4 in Cyberpolitics in International Relations . MIT Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780262517690. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• Holling, C.S. “Sustainability: The Cross-Scale Dimension.” Chapter 4 in Defining and Measuring Sustainability: The Biogeophysical Foundations . Edited by Mohan Munasinghe and Walter Shearer. World Bank, 1995. ISBN: 9780821331347.
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• Buy at MIT Press Lofdahl, Corey L. “Lateral Pressure Theory.” Chapter 2 in Environmental Impacts of Globalization and Trade: A Systems Study . MIT Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780262122450. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• [B] Sachs, Ignacy. Chapter 2: Social Sustainability and Whole Development: Exploring the Dimensions of Sustainable Development.
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• [T] Chapter 3: The Study of Collapse.
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• Buy at MIT Press Choucri, Nazli. “Cyberspace and Sustainability: Convergence on the Global Agenda.” Chapter 9 in Cyberpolitics in International Relations . MIT Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780262517690. ↗
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• Drucker, Peter F. “From Capitalism to Knowledge Society.” Chapter 2 in The Knowledge Economy . Edited by Dale Neef. Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997. ISBN: 9780750699365.
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• Landes, David S. “Homo Faber, Homo Sapiens: Knowledge, Technology, Growth, and Development.” Chapter 5 in The Knowledge Economy . Edited by Dale Neef. Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997. ISBN: 9780750699365.
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• Ospina, Angelina Valeria, and Richard Heeks. “ Unveiling the Links between ICTs & Climate Change in Developing Countries: A Scoping Study .” Center for Development Informatics, Institute for Development Policy and Management, SED, 2010, pp. 1–16. ↗
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• [A] Chapter 9: Complex Systems.
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• [B] Choucri, Nazli. Chapter 8: The Political Logic of Sustainability.
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• [CH] Choucri, Nazli. Chapter 2: Global Knowledge e-Networking: Identifying e-Barriers and Introducing GSSD.
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• [T] Chapter 4: Understanding Collapse: The Marginal Productivity of Sociopolitical Change.
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• [E] Chapter 11: Governments Can Kill Growth.
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• [E] Chapter 12: Corruption and Growth.
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• [P] Engleman, Robert, Richard P. Cincotta, et al. Chapter 2: The Future is Not What it Used to Be: World Population Trends.
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• [P] Runci, Paul J., and Chester L. Cooper. Chapter 3: Reflections on an Aging Global Population.
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• Barzel, Yoram. “The Property Rights Model.” Chapter 1 in Economic Analysis of Property Rights (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) . 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780521597135. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• ———. “The Old Firm and the New Organization.” Chapter 5 in Economic Analysis of Property Rights (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) . 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780521597135. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• Choucri, Nazli. “Population and the Global Environment.” In Energy and the Environment in the 21 st Century . Edited by Jefferson W. Tester. MIT Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780262200783.
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• [TE] Chapter 1: Sustainable Energy: The Engine of Sustainable Development.
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• [TE] Chapter 2: Estimation and Evaluation of Energy Resources.
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• [TE] Chapter 6: Energy Systems and Sustainability Metrics.
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• [B] Gowdy, John. Chapter 9: Economic Concepts of Sustainability: Relocating Economic Activity Within Society and Environment.
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• [C] Choucri, Nazli, and Robert C. North. Chapter 3: Growth, Development, and Environmental Sustainability: Profile and Paradox.
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• [ST] Coase, Ronald. Chapter 2: The Problem of Social Cost.
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• [A] Chapter 6: Applications to Practice: Sector Initiatives.
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• Buy at MIT Press Lofdahl, Corey L. “Exploring Complexity: System Dynamics Analysis.” Chapter 5 in Environmental Impacts of Globalization and Trade: A Systems Study . MIT Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780262122450. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• [C] Rothenberg, Jerome R. Chapter 9: Economic Perspectives on Time Comparisons: An Evaluation of Time Discounting.
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• [C] Choucri, Nazli. Chapter 6: Multinational Corporations and the Global Environment.
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• [ST] Reinhardt, Forest L., Robert N. Stavins, et al. Chapter 22: Corporate Social Responsibility through an Economic Lens.
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• [ST] Portney, Paul R. Chapter 23: The (Not So) New Corporate Social Responsibility: An Empirical Perspective.
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• [CH] Lim, Shung Yar. Chapter 10: The Value of Knowledge for Extended Enterprises.
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• [L] Choucri, Nazli. Chapter 12: Corporate Strategies toward Sustainability.
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• [ST] Arrow, Kenneth. J., Maureen L. Cropper, et al. Chapter 11: Is There a Role for Benefit-Cost Analysis in Environment, Health and Safety Regulation?
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• [S] Tietenberg, Tom H. Chapter 15: Economic Instruments for Environmental Regulation.
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• [ST] Fullerton, Don, and Robert N. Stavins. Chapter 1: How Economists See the Environment.
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• [ST] Keohane, Nathaniel O., Richard L. Revesz, et al. Chapter 32: The Choice of Regulatory Instruments in Environmental Policy.
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• [S] Dasgupta, Susmita, Benoit Laplante, et al. Chapter 20: Confronting the Environmental Kuznets Curve.
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• [ST] Palmer, Karen, Wallace E. Oates, et al. Chapter 6: Tightening Environmental Standards: The Benefit-Cost or the No-Cost Paradigm?
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• [CH] Choucri, Nazli. Chapter 20: Conclusion: Mapping Sustainability, Knowledge e-Networking, and the Value Chain, Synthesis, Insights, and Evidence.
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• Carraro, Carlo. “Climate Change Policy: Models, Controversies and Strategies.” Chapter 1 in The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 2002 / 2003 A Survey of Current Issues (New Horizons in Environmental Economics) . Edited by Tom Tietenberg and Henk Folmer. Edward Elgar Publications, 2003. ISBN: 9781843762133.
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• [A] Chapter 13: Government Structure and Industrial Ecology Policy Formulation.
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• [C] Rothenberg, Jerome. Chapter 11: Economic Perspectives on Time Comparisons: Alternative Approaches to Time Comparisons.
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• Pearce, David. “Sustainable Development and Developing Country Economies.” Chapter 3 in Sustainable Environmental Economics and Management: Principles and Practice . Edited by R. Kerry Turner. Belhaven Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780471947813.
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• [P] Conca, Ken. Chapter 4: Global Water Prospects.
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• [P] Cousins, Ken. Chapter 12: Twenty-Nine Days: Responding to a Finite World.
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• [T] Chapter 5: Evaluation: Complexity and Marginal Returns in Collapsing Societies.
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• [T] Chapter 6: Summary and Implications.
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• [C] Haas, Peter M., with Jan Sundgren. Chapter 12: Evolving International Environmental Law: Changing Practices of National Sovereignty.
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• Metrick, Andrew, and Martin L. Weitzman. “ Conflicts and Choices in Biodiversity Preservation .” Journal of Economic Perspectives 12, no. 3 (1998): 21–34. ↗
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• Ostrom, Elinor. “A Framework for Analysis of Self-Organizing and Self-Governing CPRs.” Chapter 6 in Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action . Cambridge University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9781107569782.
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• [L] Sands, Philippe. Chapter 5: International Law in the Field of Sustainable Development: Emerging Legal Principles.
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• Buy at MIT Press Levy, David L., and Peter J. Newell. “Introduction: The Business of Global Environmental Governance.” Chapter 1 in The Business of Global Environmental Governance . Edited by David L. Levy and Peter J. Newell. MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780262621885. ↗
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• Buy at MIT Press Levy, David L. “Business and the Evolution of the Climate Regime: The Dynamics of Corporate Strategies.” Chapter 4 in The Business of Global Environmental Governance . Edited by David L. Levy and Peter J. Newell. MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780262621885. ↗
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• [O] Chapter 1: The Role of Infrastructure in Development.
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• [O] Chapter 3: Individuals, Incentives, and Transaction Costs.
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• [O] Chapter 5: Evaluating Institutional Performance.
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• [O] Chapter 6: Analyzing Institutional Arrangements.
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• [B] Paehlke, Robert. Chapter 13: Towards Defining, Measuring and Achieving Sustainability: Tools and Strategies for Environmental Valuation.
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• [CH] Wickboldt, Anne-Katrin. Chapter 14: Growing Clean?: Property Rights, Economic Growth, and the Environment.
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• Røpke, Inge. “ Trade, Development and Sustainability—A Critical Assessment of the ‘Free Trade Dogma ’.” Ecological Economics 9, no. 1 (1994): 13–22. ↗
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• [ST] Kelman, Steven. Chapter 14: Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique.
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• Goldman, Patti A. “Resolving the Trade and Environment Debate: In Search of a Neutral Forum and Neutral Principles.” (PDF - 1.4MB) Washington & Lee Law Review 49, no. 4 (1992): 1279–98. ↗
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• [ST] Frankel, Jeffrey A. Chapter 31: The Environment and Globalization.
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• [A] Chapter 12: Legal Issues.
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• [AS] Chapter 3: Economic Development and Prosperity: Current Theory and Debate.
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• [AS] Chapter 10: Regional and International Regimes to Protect Health, Safety, and the Environment.
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• [AS] Chapter 12: Financing Development, p. 629.
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• [C] Brewer, Garry D. Chapter 8: Environmental Challenges and Managerial Responses.
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• Sell, Susan K. “ Revenge of the ‘Nerds’: Collective Action Against Intellectual Property Maximalism in the Global Information Age .” International Studies Review 15, no. 1 (2013): 67–85. ↗
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• Buy at MIT Press Dolšak, Nives, and Elinor Ostrom, eds. “The Challenges of the Commons.” Chapter 1 in The Commons in the New Millennium: Challenges and Adaptations . MIT Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780262042147. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• [L] Sand, Peter H. Chapter 11: Trusts for the Earth: New International Financial Mechanisms for Sustainable Development.
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• [ST] Porter, Michael E., and Claas van der Linde. Chapter 5: Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship.
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• [A] Chapter 16: Is the Private Firm Compatible with a Sustainable World?
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• [P] Chapter 5: Cohen, Marc J. “Food Policy: Underfed or Overfed?”
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• [C] Weiss, Edith Brown. Chapter 10: Intergenerational Equity: Toward an International Legal Framework.
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