Ecological Economics is the science of sustainability.  Ecological economics exists because a hundred years of disciplinary specialization in scientific inquiry has left us unable to understand or to manage the interactions between the human and environmental components of our world. While none would dispute the insights that disciplinary specialization has brought, many now recognize that it has also turned out to be our Achilles heel. In an interconnected evolving world, reductionist science has pushed out the envelope of knowledge in many different directions, but it has left us bereft of ideas as to how to formulate and solve problems that stem from the interactions between humans and the natural world.

All contributions were written by credentialed ecological economists. Authors are welcome to expand on or edit the contents list; please contact Ida Kubiszewski with suggestions.

 Note: This collection is a work in progress -- stay tuned for developing content, or contact the editors to contribute yourself!

• Introduction
• What is Ecological Economics?
• Environmental and ecological economics
• An Introduction to Ecological Economics (e-book)
• Fundamental Vision
• Need for a shared vision of a sustainable and desirable future
• Ends, Means, and Policy
• Capitals
• Natural capital
• Preserving natural capital and biodiversity
• Social capital
• Built capital
• Human capital
• The Pre-Analytic Vision of Ecological Economics
• History of ecological economics
• Differentiating between neoclassical and ecological economics
• Societal challenges and paradigm shift
• Ecological Systems
• Resources of nature and nature of resources
• Natural resource quality
• Biophysical economics
• Current status of resources and systems thinking
• Approaching the world’s environmental problems through the Second Law (Entropy Law) of Thermodynamics
• Collectively seeing complex systems
• From Empty World to Full World
• Ecosystems
• Large marine ecosystems (collection)
• Forest environmental services
  
• Ecosystem Services
• Value of the world’s ecosystem services: the influence of a single paper
• Ecosystems services in Washington state
• Human Subsystem
• Human behavior and its relevance to resource allocation
• Microeconomics
• Supply and Demand
• Markets and price theory
• Rate of interest
• Market failure
• Perverse subsidies
• Limits of “consumer sovereignty”
• Macroeconomics
• Toward an ecological economy
• Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons (e-book)
• Steady state economy
• GNP and Welfare
• Inequity and growth
• Ecosystems, poverty, and the consumption elephant
• Money
• Distribution
• ISLM (Monetary and fiscal policy)
• International trade
• Globalization
• Alternative indicators
• Monetary valuation
• Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)
• Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) for Chittenden County and Burlington, Vermont, United States
• Ecological footprint
• Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW)
• Global human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP)
• Principles and Policy
• Principles of Ecological Economics
• Just Distribution
• Sustainable Scale
• Efficient allocation
• Alternative Policies
• Institutions
• Instruments 
  
• People
• Kenneth Ewart Boulding
• Robert Costanza
  
• Herman Daly
• Farewell speech to the World Bank by Herman E. Daly
• Donella H. Meadows
• Case Studies
• Rebuilding New Orleans: applying ecological economics and ecological engineering
• Historical
• The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth (historical)