The services of ecological systems and the natural capital stocks that produce them are critical to the functioning of the Earth's life-support system. They contribute to human welfare, both directly and indirectly, and therefore represent part of the total economic value of the planet. We have estimated the current economic value of 17 ecosystem services for 16 biomes, based on published studies and a few original calculations. For the entire biosphere, the value (most of which is outside the market) is estimated to be in the range of US$16-54 trillion (10^(12)) per year, with an average of US$33 trillion per year. Because of the nature of the uncertainties, this must be considered a minimum estimate. Global gross national product total is around US$18 trillion per year.

https://www.esd.ornl.gov/benefits_conference/nature_paper.pdf

The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital

Foreword 1. Prosperity Lost 2. The Age of Irresponsibility 3. Redefining Prosperity 4. The Dilemma of Growth 5. The Myth of Decoupling 6. The 'Iron Cage' of Consumerism 7. Keynesianism and the 'Green New Deal' 8. Ecological Macro-Economics 9. Flourishing - within Limits 10. Governance for Prosperity 11. The Transition to a Sustainable Economy 12. A Lasting Prosperity Appendices References Endnotes

Prosperity without growth : economics for a finite planet

https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/files/2269446/FAILLER_2015_pub_COES_The_IPBES_Conceptual_Framework_connecting_nature_and_people.pdf

The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people

Participatory learning for sustainable agriculture

http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/cvs/boyce_items/Torras-Boyce_Ecol_Econ1998.pdf

Income, inequality, and pollution: a reassessment of the environmental Kuznets Curve

PrefaceThe essays contained in Part One of this book crystallize the work, essentially transdisciplinary in nature, carried out in various countries in Latin America by a team of researchers. It was prepared over a period of eighteen months with the collaboration of professionals from Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Canada and Sweden. Their expertise covered such academic disciplines as economics, sociology, psychiatry, philosophy, political science, geography, anthropology, journalism, engineering and law. The participants constituted a stable core group that guaranteed continuity in the processes of collective investigation and reflection inherent in the project. From the beginning, close working relations were established, thus nurturing an intense intellectual exchange. The participants gathered together in three workshops during the project, which was conducive to a profound reflection on various aspects of the development problematique. In addition special guests were invited to each of the three workshops and enriched the quality of the debate.The proceedings of each of the workshops and the working papers produced by the participants form the basis of this book. The final compiling and editing was the responsibility of the CEPAUR staff, whose challenge was to integrate in a coherent manner the diverse inputs rather than just reflect the particular opinion of each of the participants. The document produced on the basis of the three workshops was then discussed at a final evaluation seminar at the Dag Hammarskjold Centre in Uppsala.The conception presented in this book is a contribution to development philosophy. As such, it offers suggestions, while remaining open to further elaboration.This project was the result of the joint efforts of the Development Alternatives Centre (CEPAUR) in Chile and the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation in Sweden. It grew out of the need to place the Dag Hammarskjold Report of 1975, entitled What Now: Another Development, in the Latin American context, giving special consideration to the myriad changes that have occurred in the last decade. The text that follows aspires to have as interlocutors persons involved in regional and local development, planning, politics, academic disciplines concerned with development and, most importantly, those dedicated to the humanization of a world in crisis. Thus, the ideas presented here are an attempt to integrate lines of research, reflection and action that substantially contribute to the construction of a new paradigm of development, less mechanistic and more humane.Part One of this book was published in Spanish as a special issue of Development Dialogue in 1986 under the title Desarollo a Escala Humana: una opcion para el futuro. That version was then translated into English by Joey Edwardh and Manfred Max-Neef and appeared in 1988 as another special issue of Development Dialogue.A new section, "A Note on Methodology," has been added to this book version, as have the final two chapters which constitute Part Two of the book.The first of these new chapters is an expanded version of an essay on "The Pruning of Language," which was published in 1988 in modified form in Development, the journal of the Society for International Development. The second chapter is an edited version of the Schumacher Memorial Lecture delivered by the author in October 1989 in Bristol, England.Both of these additions to the present book represent, if not finished products, at least paths into new and open fields of research and reflection. They underscore the elusive and never-ending search for final answers in the quest for human betterment through development.The Development Alternatives Centre, CEPAUR, is a nongovernmental organization of international scope, dedicated, through research of a transdisciplinary nature and action projects, to the reorientation of development by stimulating forms of local self-reliance, satisfying fundamental human needs and, in a more general sense, to promoting human scale development.The offices of CEPAUR are at Avenida Santa Maria 349, Apt. 42-B, Santiago, Chile, and mail should be addressed to CEPAUR, Casilla 27.001, Santiago 27, Chile.Manfred Max-NeefExecutive Director, CEPAUR.

Human Scale Development Conception Application and Further Reflections

http://aoatools.aua.gr/pilotec/files/bibliography/transdiscipl_MaxNeef_ecolEcon-3345059585/transdiscipl_MaxNeef_ecolEcon.pdf

Foundations of transdisciplinarity

Economic growth and quality of life: a threshold hypothesis

Contributors: Tony Lawson, University of Cambridge Alejandro Sanz de Santamaria, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Wolfgang Sachs, Institute for Cultural Studies, Essen Geoffrey Hodgson, Polytechnic of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Amitai Etzioni, George Washington University, Washington DC John Oliver Wilson, University of California Roefie Hueting, Central Bureau of Statistics, The Hague David Pearce, University College, London Richard Norgaard, University of California Mark Lutz, University of Maine Jane Wheelock, Sunderland Polytechnic Orio Giarini, Graduate Institute of European Studies, Geneva Anisur Rahman, International Labour Office, Geneva Mario Kamenetzky, World Bank (retired) Manfred Max-Neef, Development Alternatives Centre, Santiago Robert Chambers, University of Sussex Oyvind Lone, Ministry of the Environment, Oslo Luisella Goldschmidt-Clermont, Free University of Brussels Ian Miles, University of Sussex Peter Soderbaum, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Mitchel Abolafia, Cornell University, USA Nicole Biggart, University of California Paul Ekins, Birkbeck College, London Paul Streeten, Boston University, USA Geoffrey Mulgan, Polytechnic of Central London Hilary Wainwright, University of Manchester Severyn Bruyn, Boston College, USA

Manfred Max-Neef

Papers

Human Scale Development Conception Application and Further Reflections

Foundations of transdisciplinarity

Economic growth and quality of life: a threshold hypothesis

Real-life economics : understanding wealth creation

Human Scale Development