Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications
Author: Herman Daly
<p>Conventional economics is increasingly criticized for failing to reflect the value of clean air and water, species diversity, and social and generational equity. By excluding biophysical and social reality from its analyses and equations, conventional economics seems ill-suited to address problems in a world characterized by increasing human impacts and decreasing natural resources.<p>Ecological Economics is an introductory-level textbook for an emerging paradigm that addresses this fundamental flaw in conventional economics. The book defines a revolutionary "transdiscipline" that incorporates insights from the biological, physical, and social sciences, and it offers a pedagogically complete examination of this exciting new field. The book provides students with a foundation in traditional neoclassical economic thought, but places that foundation within a new interdisciplinary framework that embraces the linkages among economic growth, environmental degradation, and social inequity.<p>Introducing the three core issues that are the focus of the new transdiscipline -- scale, distribution, and efficiency -- the book is guided by the fundamental question, often assumed but rarely spoken in traditional texts: What is really important to us? After explaining the key roles played by the earth's biotic and abiotic resources in sustaining life, the text is then organized around the main fields in traditional economics: microeconomics, macroeconomics, and international economics. The book also takes an additional step of considering the policy implications of this line of thinking.<p>Ecological Economics includes numerous features that make it accessible to a wide range of students:<ul><li> more than thirty text boxes that highlight issues of special importance to students<li> lists of key terms that help students organize the main points in each chapter<li> concise definitions of new terms that are highlighted in the text for easy reference<li> study questions that encourage student exploration beyond the text<li> glossary and list of further readings</ul><p>An accompanying workbook presents an innovative, applied problem-based learning approach to teaching economics.<p>While many books have been written on ecological economics, and several textbooks describe basic concepts of the field, this is the only stand-alone textbook that offers a complete explanation of both theory and practice. It will serve an important role in educating a new generation of economists and is an invaluable new text for undergraduate and graduate courses in ecological economics, environmental economics, development economics, human ecology, environmental studies, sustainability science, and community development."
Table of Contents:
| Acknowledgments | ||
| A Note to Instructors | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Pt. I | An Introduction to Ecological Economics | 1 |
| Ch. 1 | Why Study Economics | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | The Fundamental Vision | 15 |
| Ch. 3 | Ends, Means, and Policy | 37 |
| Pt. II | The Containing and Sustaining Ecosystem: The Whole | 59 |
| Ch. 4 | The Nature of Resources and the Resources of Nature | 61 |
| Ch. 5 | Abiotic Resources | 77 |
| Ch. 6 | Biotic Resources | 93 |
| Ch. 7 | From Empty World to Full World | 111 |
| Pt. III | Microeconomics | 123 |
| Ch. 8 | The Basic Market Equation | 125 |
| Ch. 9 | Supply and Demand | 141 |
| Ch. 10 | Market Failures | 157 |
| Ch. 11 | Market Failures and Abiotic Resources | 185 |
| Ch. 12 | Market Failures and Biotic Resources | 201 |
| Pt. IV | Macroeconomics | 221 |
| Ch. 13 | Macroeconomic Concepts: GNP and Welfare | 223 |
| Ch. 14 | Money | 245 |
| Ch. 15 | Distribution | 259 |
| Ch. 16 | The IS-LM Model | 277 |
| Pt. V | International Trade | 307 |
| Ch. 17 | International Trade | 309 |
| Ch. 18 | Globalization | 323 |
| Ch. 19 | International Flows and Macroeconomic Policy | 343 |
| Pt. VI | Policy | 357 |
| Ch. 20 | General Policy Design Principles | 359 |
| Ch. 21 | Sustainable Scale | 373 |
| Ch. 22 | Just Distribution | 389 |
| Ch. 23 | Efficient Allocation | 405 |
| Looking Ahead | 425 | |
| Glossary | 429 | |
| Suggested Readings | 443 | |
| About the Authors | 447 | |
| Index | 449 |
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Product Design
Author: Kevin N Otto
FEATURES/BENEFITS
- Fundamental approach is that reverse engineering and teardowns offer a new better paradigm for design instruction, permitting a modern learning cycle of experience, hypothesis, understanding, and then execution.
- Concrete experiences with hands-on products.
- Applications of contemporary technologies.
- Studies of systematic experimentation.
- Exploration of the boundaries of design methodology.
- Decision making for real product development.
- Discusses the foundation material of product design, including a philosophy for learning and implementing product design methods.
- Each chapter includes both basic and advanced techniques for particular phases of product development.
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In the first chapter of this in-depth work, Otto (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Wood (U. of Texas at Austin) discuss the foundation material of product design, including their philosophy for learning and implementing product design methods. Each subsequent chapter addresses both basic and advanced techniques for particular phases of product development. Topics include process tools, technical and business concerns, understanding customer needs, establishing product function, product teardown and experimentation, benchmarking and establishing engineering specifications, product portfolios and architecture, generating concepts, concept selection and embodiment, modeling of product metrics, design for manufacture and assembly and for the environment, analytical and numerical model solutions, physical prototypes, and physical models and experimentation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Table of Contents:
| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Ch. 1 | Journeys in Product Development | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Product Development Process Tools | 51 |
| Ch. 3 | Scoping Product Developments: Technical and Business Concerns | 83 |
| Ch. 4 | Understanding Customer Needs | 111 |
| Ch. 5 | Establishing Product Function | 147 |
| Ch. 6 | Product Teardown and Experimentation | 197 |
| Ch. 7 | Benchmarking and Establishing Engineering Specifications | 259 |
| Ch. 8 | Product Portfolios and Portfolio Architecture | 303 |
| Ch. 9 | Architecture | 357 |
| Ch. 10 | Generating Concepts | 411 |
| Ch. 11 | Concept Selection | 477 |
| Ch. 12 | Concept Embodiment | 535 |
| Ch. 13 | Modeling of Product Metrics | 603 |
| Ch. 14 | Design for Manufacture and Assembly | 663 |
| Ch. 15 | Design for the Environment | 719 |
| Ch. 16 | Analytical and Numerical Model Solutions | 781 |
| Ch. 17 | Physical Prototypes | 833 |
| Ch. 18 | Physical Models and Experimentation | 891 |
| Ch. 19 | Physical Models and Experimentation | 979 |
| App. A | Function Structure Definition | 1011 |
| App. B | DOE Tables | 1033 |
| App. C | TRIZ Relationship Table | 1039 |
| App. D | Eco-Indicator Environment Assessment | 1043 |
| Index | 1051 |
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