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Radical new thinking is required to fight climate change, and ‘gross ecosystem product’ might help.
Invasive species have been invading foreign territories for centuries. By quantifying the mammoth economic impacts, we hope political leaders will start to take notice.
Expanding on sustainable practices in remote parts of Australia can deliver great benefits to both local Indigenous owners and national and global communities.
Laws in other countries recognise ‘rights of nature’. But even trees sacred to Indigenous Australian communities have no special protection.
The demands on land and resources from our fast-growing cities are unsustainable, as are the wastes they produce. Yet still our leaders act as if unlimited growth is possible.
Ecological economics focuses on sustainability and development rather than efficiency and growth. Cities, as home to 70-80% of economic activity, are at the heart of the challenge of being sustainable.
Humans consume excessive resources with little or no benefits to well-being – and the politics of our economy are to blame. To counter the influence of industries in democracy, we must strike.
Economic growth created the climate crisis and continues to fuel it – ‘green’ growth is no solution.
With partnerships between landowners, the government and businesses, South Africa can invest in its wetlands and boost the country’s potable water reserves.
Politicians and economists call for emissions cuts while also embracing free trade – they can’t have it both ways.
No country manages to balance sustainability with meeting basic human needs – but Vietnam comes closest.
Increased development is always unsustainable, so let’s stop kidding ourselves.
Economic inequality and environmental degradation are closely linked – and stem from politicians’ fixation on economic growth at all costs.
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Professor of Human Ecology, Lund University
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Lecturer in Ecological Economics, University of Leeds
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Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona
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Professor, Miami University
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Emeritus professor, School of Regulation and Global Governance, ANU, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL
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Directeur de recherche CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay
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Professor of Ecological Economics, UCL
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Associate Professor, Honorary Principal Fellow, Informal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-), University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, RMIT University
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Professor of Ecological Economics at the University of Lausanne and, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Food Business and Development, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods, University College Cork
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, Law Futures Centre, Griffith University
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Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University
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Maître de conférences en écologie et biogéographie, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)