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Literature
• Eriksson, R. & J. O. Andersson (2010) Elements of Ecological Economics. Routledge. (This is the main text!)
• Edwards-Jones, G., B. Davies and S. Hussain (2000) Ecological economics. An introduction. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
Ecological economics. An introductory course
Autumn 2011
Ralf Eriksson Economics
School of Business and Economics Åbo Akademi University UniPiD
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Lecture 1.
• Introduction and conceptual background
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The structure of பைடு நூலகம்he course
• The course consists of 10 modules of which 9 is the actual course work and the 10th is reserved for exam
– i.e. Weeks 38-47 (5 credits) – 5 credits – N.B. the change compared to the preliminary
course description!
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Course content in brief:
1. Introduction and the general policy perspective required by sustainability 2. economic growth in a historical perspective 3. Ethics and ecological economics 4. Environmental economics 5. sustainability conceptions and measurement within ecological economics 6. economics and ethics of climate change 7. global food security 8. the state of the seas on earth and locally (the Baltic Sea) 9. the possibility of degrowth