Table of Contents

Introduction: Economics for the 21st century

Part 1. Ideas and tools
Chapter 1. What the classics know about our world, what 20th century economics forgot
Chapter 2. Humans within the biosphere: the paradox of domination and dependence
Chapter 3. Governing the commons fairly
Chapter 4. Spheres of environmental justice
Chapter 5. Natural resources, externalities and sustainability: a critical toolbox

Part 2. 21st century social-ecological challenges
Chapter 6. Biodiversity and ecosystems under growing and unequal pressure
Chapter 7. Beyond EXPOWA (Extraction, pollution and waste)
Chapter 8. Energy, Climate and Justice
Chapter 9. Well-being and our environment: from trade-offs to synergies
Chapter 10. Social-ecology: connecting the inequality and ecological crises
Chapter 11. The social-ecological transition in context: capitalism, democracy, globalization and digitalization
Chapter 12. Urban sustainability and polycentric transition

Conclusion: Open economics

About the Author

Éloi Laurent is a Senior Research Fellow at OFCE (Sciences Po Center for Economic Research, Paris), Professor at the School of Management and Innovation at Sciences Po, and Visiting Professor at Stanford University.

Reviews

“In The New Environmental Economics, Éloi Laurent brings justice and sustainability to center stage as foundations for sound environmental policy – where they belong. This book could help to revolutionize the teaching of this vital subject.”
James K. Boyce, University of Massachusetts Amherst  “All economics is – or should be – environmental economics. Éloi Laurent eloquently reminds us that, as the science of allocating scarce resources, economics has questions of environmental science and social justice at its heart. This book sets out what is needed for economic policy to deliver sustainability in its broadest sense. The challenge could not be more urgent."
Diane Coyle, University of Cambridge