Abstract

Acknowledgements. Preface. Introduction: economics and ecology - the next frontier. Environmentally sustainable development: optimal economic conditions. Ecological economic systems analysis: order and chaos. Sustainable agriculture: the trade-offs with productivity, stability and equitability. Stress, shock and the sustainability of optimal resource utilization in a stochastic environment. Economic and ecological carrying capacity: applications to pastoral systems in Zimbabwe. Tropical forests and biodiversity conservation: a new ecological imperative. Optimal economic growth and the conservation of biological diversity. The viewing value of elephants. Ecology and economics in small islands. Constructing a framework for sustainable development. Sustainable development: ethical foundations. Postscript.

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