Selected Readings
Carrying Capacity
Daily, G. and P. R. Ehrlich. “Population, sustainability, and Earth’s carrying capacity,” BioScience 42 (1992): 761-771.
IPAT
Waggoner, P. E. and J. Ausubel, “A Framework for Sustainability Science: A Renovated IPAT Identity,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99.12 (2002): 7860.
Kates, Robert W. “Population and Consumption: What We Know and What We Need to Know,” Environment 42.3 (2000): 10.
Limits to Growth
Meadows, Donella, J. Randers and D. Meadows. Limits to Growth. New York: Universe Books, 1972.
Meadows, Donella, J. Randers and D. Meadows. Beyond the Limits. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Co., 1992.
Meadows, Donella, J. Randers and D. Meadows. Limits to Growth: The Thirty Year Update. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Co., 2004.
Critical Natural Capital
Balmford, Andrew, A. Bruner, P. Cooper, R. Costanza, S. Farber, R. Green, M. Jenkins, P. Jefferiss, V. Jessamy, J. Madden, K. Munro, N. Myers, S. Naeem, J. Paavola, M. Rayment, S. Rosendo, J. Roughgarden, K. Trumper and R. K. Turner. “Economic Reasons for conserving wild nature.” Science 297.5583 (9 August 2002): 950-953.
Baskin, Y. The Work of Nature: How the Diversity of Life Sustains Us. Washington: Island Press, 1997.
Chiesura, Anna and R. de Groot. “Critical natural capital: a socio-cultural perspective.” Ecological Economics 44 (2003): 219-231.
Deutsch, Lisa, C. Folke and K. Skanberg. “The critical natural capital of ecosystem performance as insurance for human well-being.” Ecological Economics 44 (2003): 205–217.
Ekins, Paul, S. Simon, L. Deutsch, C. Folke and R. de Groot. “A framework for the practical application of the concepts of critical natural capital and strong sustainability.” Ecological Economics 44 (2003): 165–185.
Ekins, Paul, C. Folke and R. de Groot. “Identifying critical natural capital.” Ecological Economics 44 (2003): 165-185.
Ekins, Paul. “Identifying critical natural capital: Conclusions about critical natural capital.” Ecological Economics 44 (2003): 277-292.
Ecological Footprint
Borgstrom, G. The Hungry Planet. New York: Macmillan, 1965.
Wackernagel, M. “Tracking the Ecological Overshoot of the Human Economy.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99.14 (July 2002): 9266-9271.
Wackernagel, Mathis and W. Rees. Our Ecological Footprint. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 1996.
Material Flow
Matthews, Emily, C. Amann, S. Bringezu, M. Fischer-Kowalski, W. Huttler, R. Kleijn, Y. Moriguchi, C. Ottke, E. Rodenburg, D. Rogish, H. Schandl, H. Schutz, E. van der Voet and H. Weisz. The Weight of Nations: Material Outflows from Industrial Economics. Washington: World Resources Institute, 2000.
Millenium Assessment
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Ecosystems and Human Well-being. Washington: Island Press, 2003.
Panarchy
Fraser, E., Figge, F., and W. Mabee. "A framework for assessing the vulnerability of food systems to future shocks," Futures (2004).
Fraser, E. "Social vulnerability and ecological fragility: building bridges between social and natural sciences using the Irish potato famine as a case study," Conservation Ecology, 7.2 (2003): 9.
Gunderson, Lance and C. S. Holding. Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems. Washington: Island Press, 2002.