Launch of the North American Center for Post-Growth Research (NAC) About the NAC We are thrilled to announce the launch of the North American Center for Post-Growth Research (the NAC), a new nonprofit dedicated to fostering critical research, translocal collaboration, and public engagement that reimagines prosperity beyond profit and growth. Founding Executive Director Opportunity As part […] The post Launching the NAC & Hiring Our Founding Executive Director appeared first on The Internat...| The International Society for Ecological Economics
Ten principles for transforming economics The Global Assessment for a New Economics (GANE) is an ongoing collaborative project between researchers and practitioners with different heterodox economic backgrounds around world, supported by partners such as the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, the Club of Rome and ISEE. The aim of the project is to support discourse coalitions based […] The post Ten principles for transforming economics appeared first on The International Society for Ecological Eco...| The International Society for Ecological Economics
Opinion by Alix Underwood The Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) Annual Meeting concludes today in Baltimore, Maryland. Of the dizzying multitude of topics on the agenda, the most prevalent were wildlife conservation, forest ecology, and climate change. Meeting sessions focused on niche aspects of these topics: threatened wader species on Sonadia Island, the effects of endemic mistletoes on forest-floor invertebrates, and the impacts of warming on interactions between plants and symbiont...| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Literature reviews are usually quite uncontroversial. But this is not the case of “Reviewing studies of degrowth: Are claims matched by data, methods and policy analysis?”, a recent paper by Ivan Savin and Jeroen van den Bergh, two economists at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. “The piece sparked a meltdown,” explains Glen Peters, who witnessed the online stir […]| Timothée Parrique
Call for papers: Submissions for special issue “Work in Ecological Economics,” exploring how employment, time use, sustainability intersect.| The International Society for Ecological Economics
Non-native species introduced mainly via increasing trade of goods and services have huge economic, health, and environmental costs. These ‘biological invasions’ involve the intentional or unintentional transport and release of species beyond their native biogeographical ranges, facilitating their potential spread. Over the last few decades, invasive species have incurred an average cost of at leastContinue reading "Less affluent countries more prone to damage caused by biological invas...| Global Ecology @ Flinders
