Bioeconomics: Mansour Mohammadian

                            "Mantra de la Bioeconomía: Cuidar el bienestar de uno mismo y también cuidar el bienestar de los demás y del planeta."

Book - Contentsprint page

Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I

Chapter 1: The History of Economic Thought in Relation to Biological Resources and the Environment

  • Mercantilian, Physiocratic, Classical Economics
  • Neoclassical Economics
  • Keynesian Economics
  • Marxist Economics
  • Theories of Value: Labour, Labour-surplus, Utility, Marginal Utility, Capital,
    Entropy and Bioeconomic
  • Concluding Remarks

Chapter 2: The Evolution of Environmentalist Thought and the Economy-Environment Paradigms

  • Natural Resource Economics
  • Environmental Economics
  • Ecological Economics
  • Concluding Remarks

PART II

Chapter 3: Bioeconomics:Towards a Postmodern Economic Paradigm

  • The Reductionist Socioeconomic Paradigm
  • The Holistic Bioeconomic Paradigm
  • Is There a Need for Bioeconomics?
  •       1. Importance of Biology
  •       2. Progress of Scientific Thought and Understanding
  •       3. Interdisciplinarity as a Functional Methodology
  •       4. The Moral Imperative
  •       5. Public Policy Issues
  •       6. Bioeconomics as Dialectical Science
  •       7. The Intergeneration Dilemma
  •       8. Bioeconomic Pricing and Valuing Strategy
  •       9. The Sustainability Challenge
  •       10. Research Policy
  • Some Issues to Be Resolved by the Bioeconomic Paradigm
  • Bioeconomics and the Concept of Entropy
  • Bioeconomics and the Concept of Coevolution
  • Bioeconomics as Interdisciplinary Science
  • Bioeconomics as Postmodern Science
  • Concluding Remarks

Chapter 4: Towards a Bioeconomically-Sustainable Society

  • What is Sustainability and Sustainable development?
  • Goals and Objectives of Sustainability
  • Strategies for Achieving Goals and Objectives
  • Dimensions of Sustainability
  • Bioeconomics and Sustainability
  • Bioeconomic Development Is Sustainable Development
  • The Scientific Basis of Sustainability
  • Bioeconomic Modelling for Sustainability
  • Bioeconomic Education for Sustainability
  • Concluding Remarks

Chapter 5: Challenges to Sustainability

  • Clarification of Goals and Objectives
  • How to Make Sustainability Operational?
  • The Global Value System
  • The Role of Science and Technology in Repairing and Preventing Planetary
            Damage
  • The Importance of Communication Media
  • The Gender Perspective
  • T