Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis

Humanity's conceptualization of the global environment has changed radically in the four decades since the publication of Rachel...

THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT This year is the 40th anniversary of the publication of a book that for many...

A framing premise of this paper is that the sustainability dilemma is not merely an ecological or technical...

INTRODUCTION Economic activity and energy use are closely coupled. Today the yearly increase in economic activity is larger...

INTRODUCTION There is no more controversial issue today than Kyoto and climate change, and no issue more needing...

INTRODUCTION Much has been said and written about a new business ethic of sustainability in which corporations voluntarily...

Can wealthy societies maintain their health status while consuming less of the world's "photosynthetic resources"? This may seem...

INTRODUCTION How can it be that fisheries appear in trouble every time newspapers report on them? Coastal and...

INTRODUCTION This paper first provides a short review of the chronic problems in fisheries and fisheries science. It...

INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE AND BIODIVERSITY Agriculture implies the simplification of nature's biodiversity and reaches an extreme form in crop...

INTRODUCTION Over the past 20 years water demands have steadily increased and the controversies and conflicts over drinking...

INTRODUCTION The management of forests is not only contentious, but also complex. Forest ecology is dynamic and dependent...

INTRODUCTION Occam's razor: "Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate" [William of Occam (1284-1347), an English philosopher and theologian]...

INTRODUCTION The intention of those who defend old growth or denounce overgrazing is not to denounce hard physical...

INTRODUCTION Although the term "sustainable development" has been defined in numerous ways, (1) the concept is rooted primarily...

This paper addresses a series of fundamental issues relating to the governance of common-pool resources at multiple scales....

I. THE SHAPE OF THE NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION On a Thursday in April 1996, I was in Boston...

INTRODUCTION In the late 1970s, an extraordinary research effort was undertaken to map out what a future "Conserver...