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
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