TY - JOUR
T1 - Recasting Economics As If the Climate and Global Ecology Really Mattered
AU - Porter, John
AU - Howden, Mark
AU - Smith, Pete
AU - Stokholm, Michaela Schiller
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The current paradigm of global economics with exponential and continuous economic growth is unsustainable as far as Earth system ecology is concerned. To support the Earth system and boost sustainable development, a functional and operational linkage between global ecology and economics should be established which we term carbonomics. The simple basis of carbonomics is that the more fossil and non-fossil carbon one has as stocks, and not flows, of carbon, the richer one is. This opinion piece makes some suggestions about how we might establish such a balanced relationship.
AB - The current paradigm of global economics with exponential and continuous economic growth is unsustainable as far as Earth system ecology is concerned. To support the Earth system and boost sustainable development, a functional and operational linkage between global ecology and economics should be established which we term carbonomics. The simple basis of carbonomics is that the more fossil and non-fossil carbon one has as stocks, and not flows, of carbon, the richer one is. This opinion piece makes some suggestions about how we might establish such a balanced relationship.
U2 - 10.7916/consilience.v0i17.4095
DO - 10.7916/consilience.v0i17.4095
M3 - Article
VL - 17
SP - 220
EP - 229
JO - Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development
JF - Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development
IS - 1
ER -