Ecological Economics Reviews, Volume 1219

This is the second installment of this annual review series presents invited papers published in collaboration with the United States Society for Ecological Economics. This issue will include in-depth reviews of topics such as: ecological economics of land degradation; assessing the true costs of coal; institutional change and ecological economics; energy and economic growth; systems theory of sustainable exploitation of ecosystems; payments for environmental services; climate change and game theory; the economic value of ecosystem services in the Great Barrier Reef; and core issues in the economics of biodiversity conservation. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please click here. ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit http://www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information about becoming a member.

Is steady-state capitalism viable? : a review of the issues and an answer in the affirmative / Philip Lawn The role of energy in economic growth / David I. Stern Energy return on investment, peak oil, and the end of economic growth / David J. Murphy and Charles A.S. Hall Full cost accounting for the life cycle of coal / Paul R. Epstein [and others] Core issues in the economics of biodiversity conservation / Clement A. Tisdell The economic value of ecosystem services in the Great Barrier Reef : our state of knowledge / Natalie Stoeckl [and others] Ecological economics of soil erosion : a review of the current state of knowledge / Bhim Adhikari and Karthik Nadella Climate change and game theory / Peter John Wood Toward a synthetic economic systems modeling tool for sustainable exploitation of ecosystems / Colin Richardson, Jerry Courvisanos and John W. Crawford Ecological economics and institutional change / Lisi Krall and Kent Klitgaard Environmental protection, inequality, and institutional change / Elisabetta Magnani What should we call instruments commonly known as payments for environmental services? : a review of the literature and a proposal / Barry G. Shelley