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Economics for a Fragile Planet
Rethinking Markets, Institutions and Governance

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  • Date Published: March 2022
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108823388

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  • In a world of growing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, ensuring a safe Anthropocene for humankind is essential. Managing an increasingly "fragile" planet requires new thinking on markets, institutions and governance built on five principles: ending the underpricing of nature, fostering collective action, accepting absolute limits, attaining sustainability, and promoting inclusivity. Rethinking economics and policies in this way can help to overcome the global challenges posed by climate change, biodiversity loss, freshwater scarcity, and deteriorating marine and coastal habitats. It requires decoupling wealth creation from environmental degradation through business, policy and financial actions aimed at better stewardship of the biosphere. In this book, renowned environmental economist Edward Barbier offers a blueprint for a greener and more inclusive economy, and outlines the steps we must take now to build a post-COVID world that limits environmental threats while sustaining per capita welfare.

    • Illustrates how rethinking economics and policy can overcome the global challenges posed by climate change, biodiversity loss, freshwater scarcity, and deteriorating marine and coastal habitats
    • Offers a blueprint for the path forward to a greener and more inclusive economy, and outlines the steps we must take now to build a post-COVID world that limits environmental threats while sustaining per capita welfare
    • Illustrates why we must urgently change the relationship between economy and nature, and what key policy and business actions are needed to make this happen
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    • Winner, 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles

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    'This is the most thorough and expansive introduction to a conception that sees the human economy as embedded in Nature. Beautifully written and technically adroit, it displays the author’s wide social sympathies. University courses in environmental and resource economics can find no superior text today to include on their list.' Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge

    'Ed Barbier was at the frontier of new economic thinking with Blueprint for a Green Economy. Here, he continues to innovate and challenge us to reinvent and realign economics for a fragile planet. And not a moment too soon.' Steven Stone, UN Environment Programme

    'At the intersection of economics and the environment, Barbier’s timely book details in a clear and accessible way the rationale for saving our planet. For too long we have undervalued nature – at our peril. Barbier lays out the roadmap for the kind of economic thought and policymaking needed to save our 'fragile planet' – for us and those who will inherit this earth from us.' Achim Steiner, United Nations Development Programme

    'This is a must-read book for anybody concerned about the future of the environment and the lives of current and future generations. It dissects the underlying causes of today’s environmental emergencies, climate change, loss of biodiversity, quantity and quality of water, and degradation of the marine environment. It assess their impacts on human well-being and identifies the changes needed in our economic and financial systems to become a more sustainable and equitable society. This book shows that business as usual is not an option, but the solutions exist - actions are needed now by governments, businesses, financial institutions and consumers.' Professor Sir Robert Watson, CMG, FRS

    '… It is this summary which, although it represents the shortest production of the IPCC, is the most important.' Hugo Le Picard, Politique étrangère

    ‘… a compelling book with thoughtful solutions … Highly recommended.’ S. Paul, Choice

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    Product details

    • Date Published: March 2022
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108823388
    • length: 250 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 152 x 19 mm
    • weight: 0.515kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Preface
    1. Introduction
    2. Humankind and the planet
    3. Economics for a fragile planet
    4. Climate change
    5. Land use change and biodiversity
    6. Freshwater
    7. Oceans and coasts
    8. Public policies
    9. Business
    10. Conclusion.

  • Author

    Edward Barbier, Colorado State University
    Edward B. Barbier is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics and Senior Scholar in the School of Global Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University. He has consulted for a variety of national, international and non-governmental agencies on environmental policy, including many UN organizations, the World Bank and the OECD. He is the author of over 25 books, including A Global Green New Deal (Cambridge 2010), Capitalizing on Nature (Cambridge 2011) and Natural Resources and Economic Development (Cambridge, Second Edition, 2019).

    Awards

    • Winner, 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles

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