Expanded definition of the steady state economy
Czech, B. 2006. Steady state economy. Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Tom Tietenberg et al. National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington, DC.
Bona fide ecological economics textbook for graduate or undergraduate courses
Daly, H. E. and J. Farley. 2003. Ecological economics: principles and applications. Island Press, Washington, DC. 450pp.
Overview of ecological economics and introduction to the "steady state revolution" for the general public
Czech, B. 2000. Shoveling fuel for a runaway train: errant economists, shameful spenders, and a plan to stop them all. University of California Press, Berkeley, California. 206pp.
Two-part historical analysis of the development of ecological economics
Røpke, I. 2004. The early history of modern ecological economics. Ecological Economics 50(3-4):293-314.
Røpke, I. 2005. Trends in the development of ecological economics from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Ecological Economics 55(2):262-290.
Journal articles by CASSE president Brian Czech
Czech, B. 2007. The foundation of a new conservation movement: professional society positions on economic growth. Bioscience 57(1):6-7.
Czech, B. 2006. If Rome is burning, why are we fiddling? Conservation Biology 20(6):1563-1565.
Czech, B., S. K. Alam, P. A. Angermeier, S. M. Coghlan, G. F. Hartman, L. Krall, J. V. Mead, T. G. Northcote, P. Pister, K. M. Reed, C. A. Rose, J. A. Thompson, and P. F. Thompson. 2006. Economic growth, fish conservation, and the American Fisheries Society: conclusion to a forum, beginning of a movement? Fisheries 31(1):40-43.
Bigford, T., K. Hyatt, T. Dobson, V. Poage, L. Reynolds, B. Czech, B. Hughes, J. Meldrim, P. L. Angermeier, B. Gray, J. Whitehead, L. Hushak, and F. Lupi. 2006. Economic growth and fish conservation. Fisheries 31(8):404-409. Summary of the differing opinions held by the Water Quality Section and the Socioeconomics Section of the American Fisheries Society regarding the conflict between economic growth and fish conservation, moderated by the Resource Policy Committee.
Czech, B., D. L. Trauger, J. Farley, R. Costanza, H. E. Daly, C. A. S. Hall, R. F. Noss, L. Krall, and P. R. Krausman. 2005. Establishing indicators for biodiversity. Science 308:791-792. (Proposes GDP as an indicator of biodiversity decline.)
Czech, B. 2005. A chronological frame of reference for ecological integrity and natural conditions. Natural Resources Journal 44(4):1113-1136.
Miller-Reed, K., and B. Czech. 2005. Causes of fish endangerment in the United States, or the structure of theAmerican economy. Fisheries 30(7):36-38.
Czech, B., and P. Pister. 2005. Economic growth, fish conservation, and the American Fisheries Society: Introduction to a special series. Fisheries 30(1):38-40.
Czech, B. 2005. Urbanization as a threat to biodiversity: trophic theory, economic geography, and implications for conservation land acquisition. Pages 8-13 in D. N. Bengston, ed. Policies for Managing Urban Growth and Landscape Change: A Key to Conservation in the 21st Century. General Technical Report NC-265. United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Czech, B. 2005. The capacity of the National Wildlife Refuge System to conserve threatened and endangered animal species in the United States. Conservation Biology 19(4):1246-1253.
Dietz, R., and B. Czech. 2005. Conservation deficits for the continental United States: an ecosystem gap analysis. Conservation Biology 19(5):1478-1487.
Santa-Barbara, J., B. Czech, H. E. Daly, J. Farley, and D. Malghan. 2005. Sustainable scale in environmental education: three rules, two perspectives, one overriding policy objective, and six cultural shifts. Centre for Environmental Education, 2005 Conference, Ahemedabad, Gujurat, India. (Online only.)
Czech, B., and H. Daly. 2004. The steady state economy: what it is, entails, and connotes. Wildlife Society Bulletin 32(2):598-605.
Czech, B., P. Angermeier, H. Daly, P. Pister, and R. Hughes. 2004. Fish conservation , sustainable fisheries, and economic growth: no more fish stories. Fisheries 29(8):36-37.
Czech, B. 2004. Taking on the economic triangle! Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2:227.
Pergams, O. R. W., B. Czech, J. C. Haney, and D. Nyberg. 2004. Linkage of conservation activity to trends in the U.S. economy: a micro/macroeconomic synthesis. Conservation Biology 18(6):1617-1623.
Czech, B., P. Magee, D. Trauger, E. Allen, and H. Hands. 2004. David M. Johns's "Necessity of New Alliances": an Immediate Opportunity. Conservation Biology 18(1):9.
Czech, B. , E. Allen, D. Batker, P. Beier, H. Daly, J. Erickson, P. Garrettson, V. Geist, J. Gowdy, L. Greenwalt, H. Hands, P. Krausman, P. Magee, C. Miller, K. Novak, G. Pullis, C. Robinson, J. Santa-Barbara, J. Teer, D. Trauger, and C. Willer. 2003. The iron triangle: why The Wildlife Society needs to take a position on economic growth. Wildlife Society Bulletin 31(2):574-577.
Czech, B. 2003. Technological progress and biodiversity conservation: a dollar spent a dollar burned. Conservation Biology 17(5):1455-1457.
Trauger, D. L., B. Czech, J. D. Erickson, P. R. Garrettson, B. J. Kernohan, C. A. Miller. 2002. The relationship of economic growth to wildlife conservation. The Wildlife Society Technical Review 03-1. The Wildlife Society, Washington, D.C.
Czech, B. 2002. The imperative of macroeconomics for ecologists. Bioscience 52(11):964-966.
Czech, B. 2002. A transdisciplinary approach to conservation land acquisition. Conservation Biology 16:1488-1497.
Czech, B. 2002. The wildlife profession, the World Trade Center, and the conservation ethic. Wildlife Society Bulletin 30(1):280-281.
Czech, B. 2001. A potential catch-22 for a sustainable American ideology. Ecological Economics 39(1):3-12.
Czech, B. 2001. Incorporating nonhuman knowledge into the philosophy of science. Wildlife Society Bulletin 29(2):665-674.
Czech, B., and R. Borkhataria. 2001. The relationship of political affiliation to species conservation attitudes. Politics and the Life Sciences 20(1):3-12.
Czech, B., P. K. Devers, and P. R. Krausman. 2001. The relationship of gender and age to species conservation attitudes. Wildlife Society Bulletin 29(1):187-194.
Czech, B. 2000. The importance of ecological economics to wildlife conservation. Wildlife Society Bulletin 28(1):2-3.
Czech, B. 2000. Economic growth as the limiting factor for wildlife conservation. Wildlife Society Bulletin 28(1):4-14.
Czech, B., P. R. Krausman, and P. K. Devers. 2000. Economic associations among causes of species endangerment in the United States. Bioscience 50(7):593-601.
Czech, B. 2000. Economic growth, ecological economics, and wilderness preservation. Pages 194-200 in McCool, S. F., D. N. Cole, W. T. Borrie, and J. O'Loughlin, compilers. Wilderness Science in a Time of Change Conference - Volume 2: Wilderness Within the Context of Larger Systems. USDA Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-15-VOL-2.
Czech, B., and P. R. Krausman. 1999. Public opinion on endangered species conservation and policy. Society and Natural Resources 12:469-479. (condensed version from Endangered Species Bulletin)
Czech, B., P. R. Krausman, and R. Borkhataria. 1998. Social construction, political power, and the allocation of benefits to endangered species. Conservation Biology 12:1103-1112.
Czech, B., and L. A. Tarango. 1998. Wildlife as an economic staple; an example from the San Carlos Apache Reservation. Pages 209-215 in G. J. Gottfried, C. B. Edminster, and M. C. Dillon, compilers. Cross Border Waters: Fragile Treasures for the 21st Century. Ninth U.S./Mexico Conference on Recreation, Parks, and Wildlife. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.
Czech, B., and P. R. Krausman. 1997. Distribution and causation of species endangerment in the United StatesScience 277:1116-1117.
Czech, B., and P. R. Krausman. 1997. Implications of an ecosystem management literature review. Wildlife Society Bulletin 25(3):667-675.
Czech, B. 1997. The importance of range science to federal grazing policy. Journal of Range Management 50(3):326-328.
Czech, B. 1995. Ecosystem management is no paradigm shift; let's try conservation. Journal of Forestry 93(12):17-23.
Book reviews by Brian Czech pertaining to sustainability issues
Czech, B. 2004. Finally, a bona fide ecological economics textbook. Book review of Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications (Daly and Farley 2003). Ecology 85(5): 2638-2639.
Czech, B. 2004. Demand-side disutility. Book review of Supply-Side Sustainability (Allen et al. 2003). Ecology 85(4):1168-1169.
Czech, B. 2003. Roll over, Adam Smith: The "New Economy of Nature" overlooks the origins of money. Book review of The New Economy of Nature (Daily and Ellison 2001). Bioscience 53(2):180-183.
Czech, B. 2002. The world and the wild and much much more. Book review of The World and the Wild (Berry 2001). Journal of Global Ecology and Biogeography 11(4):349-350.
Czech, B. 2002. [Book review of] Fate of the wild: the Endangered Species Act and the Future of Biodiversity (Burgss 2001). Environmental Conservation 29(3):404-406.
Czech, B. 2002. Julian Simon Redux. Book review of The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (Lomborg 2001). Conservation Biology 16:570-571.
Czech, B. 2001. Market-based conservation: ironic, oxymoronic, and plausible. Book review of Nature and the Marketplace: Capturing the Value of Ecosystem Services (by G. Heal). Bioscience 51(4):320-322.
Czech, B. 2001. [Book review of] People, plants, and justice: the politics of nature conservation (Zerner 2000). Environmental Conservation: 28(4):384-385.
Czech, B. 2001. Straw men in No Man's Garden. Book review of No Man's Garden: Thoreau and a New Vision for Civilization and Nature (by D. B. Botkin). Bioscience 51:(3):250-255.
Czech, B. 2000. [Book review of] Averting extinction: reconstructing endangered species recovery (Clark 1997). Human Dimensions of Wildlife 4(4):81-83.
Academic letters to academic editors
Czech, B. 2007. Response to Science, Scientists, and Policy Advocacy. Conservation Biology 21(4):902-903.
Czech, B., M. Christian, and D. Inouye. 2005. Environmentally “taken” by the Supreme Court. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 3:471-472.
Czech, B. 2004. Terms of endearment for a steady state economy. Response to "The Dynamic Steady State Economy" by T. A. Okey et al. (2004), Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6(8):402.
Czech, B. 2004. Conflating economic growth with affluence. Response to "The Real Enemy is Poverty, Not Affluence" by P. P. Geddes (2004). Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6(2):289-290.
Czech, B., P. Magee, D. Trauger, E. Allen, and H. Hands. 2004. David M. Johns's "Necessity of New Alliances": an Immediate Opportunity. Conservation Biology 18(1):9.
Czech, B. 2002. Economic bloating and biodiversity (Response to D. Boersma et al. "How Good Are Endangered Species Recovery Plans?"). Bioscience 52(3):212-213.
Czech, B. 2001. Response to Lee M. Talbot's "What Straw Men?". Bioscience 51(9):701.
Czech, B. 2000. Costs of environmental protection; response to "The value of nature and the nature of value" by Daily et al. (2000). Science Online 290(5491).
Articles by various authors pertaining to ecological economics and sustainability issues (reverse chronology, then alphabetical order)
Clausen R. and R. York. 2008. Economic growth and marine biodiversity: influence of human social structure on decline of marine trophic levels. Conservation Biology 22(2):458-466
Clausen, B., E. Edwards, H. Holleman, R. Jonna, S. Lango, and P. Mancus. 2008. Can Sociologists Be Neutral On A Moving Train? Professional Society Positions on Economic Growth. Environment, Technology, and Society: Newsletter of the Section on Environment and Technology of the American Sociological Association.
Angermeier, P. L. 2007. The role of fish biologists in helping society build ecological sustainability. Fisheries 32(1):9-20.
Daly, H. E. 2007. Climate policy: from "know how" to "do now". Speech delivered on 11/13/2007 to the American Meteorological Society.
Dietz, T., E. A. Rosa, and R. York. 2007. Driving the human ecological footprint. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5(1):13-18.
Feasta. 2007. Eliminating the need for economic growth: A submission to the Stern review on the economics of climate change. Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, Dublin, Ireland.
Victor, P. and Rosenbluth, G. 2007. Managing without growth. Ecological Economics 61:492-504.
Brown, R. D. 2006. Serving members' needs while building a consensus: the development of The Wildlife Society's position statement on economic growth. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34(2):512-513.
DeGraaf, John. 2006. What's the economy for, anyway? New American Dream Newsletter.
Dietz, R., and B. Bridgeland. Economic growth, biodiversity conservation, and the SCB. Poster, 2006 conference of the Society for Conservation Biology.
Gates, J. E., N. K. Dawe, J. D. Erickson, J. C. Farley, V. Geist, H. Hands, P. Magee, and D. L. Trauger. 2006. Perspectives on The Wildlife Society’s economic growth policy statement and the development process. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34(2): 507-511.
Gowdy, John, and J. Ericson. 2005. The approach of ecological economics. Cambridge Journal of Economics 29:207-222.
Rosales, J. 2006. Economic growth and biodiversity loss in an age of tradeable permits. Conservation Biology 20(4):1042-1050.
Stiglitz, J. 2006. Good numbers gone bad: Why relying on GDP as a leading economic gauge can lead to poor decision-making. CNN Money.com, September 25, 2006.
Suh, S. 2006. Are services better for climate change? Environmental Science and Technology 40:6555-6560.
Woodward, D., and A. Simms. 2006. Growth isn’t working: the unbalanced distribution of benefits and costs from economic growth. New Economics Foundation, London, U.K. 26pp.
Angermeier, P. 2005. Fish biologists as conservation educators regarding economic growth. Fisheries 30(12):37-39.
Ericson, J. A. 2005. The economic roots of aquatic species invasions. Fisheries 30(5):30-33.
Krall, L. 2005. An ecologically economic perspective on microeconomics and fisheries conservation. Fisheries 30(2):38-40.
Mead, J. V., S. M. Coghlan, Jr., and P. F. Thompson. 2005. Symposium sparks debate: Should the American Fisheries Society adopt a position on economic growth? Fisheries 30(11):37-40.
New Solutions. 2005. Peak oil - peak economy. New Solutions Bulletin # 5.
Rose, C. A. 2005. Economic growth as a threat to fish conservation in Canada. Fisheries 30(8):36-38.
Whitehead, J., D. Lipton, F. Lupi, and R. Southwick. 2005. Economic growth and environmental protection: a clarification about neoclassical economics. Fisheries 30(4):32-34. (Includes a response, “A special class of neoclassical economists,” from B. Czech, P. Pister, and L. Krall.)
Whitehead, J., D. Lipton, F. Lupi, and R. Southwick. 2005. Economic growth and environmental protection: a clarification about neoclassical economics. Fisheries 30(4):32-34. (Includes a response, “A special class of neoclassical economists,” from B. Czech, P. Pister, and L. Krall.)
Røpke, I. 2004. The early history of modern ecological economics. Ecological Economics 50(3-4):293-314, and
Røpke, I. 2005. Trends in the development of ecological economics from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Ecological Economics 55(2):262-290.
Stern, D. I. 2004. The rise and fall of the environmental Kuznets curve. World Development 32(8):1419–1439.
Dietz, S., and W. N. Adger. 2003. Economic growth, biodiversity loss, and conservation effort. Journal of Environmental Management 68:23-35.
Johns, D. M. 2003. Growth, conservation, and the necessity of new alliances. Conservation Biology17(5):1229-1237.
J. Liu, G. C. Daily, P. R. Ehrlich, and Gary W. Luck. 2003. Effects of household dynamics on resource consumption and biodiversity. Nature 42:530-533.
McGregor, I. 2003. An ecologically sustainable business sector within an ecologically sustainable society. This is an internet publication and pending book chapter. The introduction states, "This paper seeks to identify ways of ensuring that the business sector contributes to the needed move Australia and New Zealand towards Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD)." However, this paper does much more, providing an analysis of the barriers to a steady state economy in Australasia, particularly the neoclassical paradigm of perpetual economic growth.
Rees, W. 2002-2003. Is humanity fatally successful? Journal of Business and Public Administration 30-31:67-100.
Daly, H. E. 1998. The return of Lauderdale's paradox. Ecological Economics 25:21-23. Essential reading for those trying to understand the implications of the Costanza et al. paper in Nature estimating the value of the world's ecosystem services at $33 trillion.
Lugo, Ariel. 1972. The Ecological View of the Steady State Society. This is a prescient paper formulated from a presentation delivered at the 1972 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia, PA.
Listing of additional publications pertaining to ecological economics and sustainability issues (alphabetical order)
Costanza, R. 1994. Three general policies to achieve sustainability. Pages 392-407 in A. M. Jansson, M. Hammer, C. Folke, and R. Costanza, editors. Investing in natural capital. Island Press, Washington, D. C.
Costanza, R., D. Stern, B. Fisher, L. He, and C. Ma. 2004. Influential publications in ecological economics: a citation analysis. Ecological Economics 50(3-4)262-292.
Collins, R. M. 2000. More: the politics of economic growth in postwar America. Oxford University Press, U.K.
Czech, B., and P. R. Krausman. 2001. The Endangered Species Act: history, conservation biology, and public policy. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. Interprets Endangered Species Act as an implicit prescription for a steady state economy:
Daly, H. E. 1999. Ecological economics and the ecology of economics: essays in criticism. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, United Kingdom. 191pp.
Daly, H. E. 1997. Beyond growth: the economics of sustainable development. Beacon Press, Boston, MA. 264pp.
Daly, H. E., and J. B. Cobb Jr. 1994. For the common good: redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future. Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts. 534pp.
Daly, H. E., and K. N. Townsend, editors. 1993. Valuing the earth: economics, ecology, ethics. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 387pp.
Daly, H. E. 1974. The economics of the steady state. American Economics Review 64(2):15-21.
Daly, H. E. 1974. The economics of the steady state. American Economics Review 64(2):15-21.
Daly, H. E., ed. 1973. Toward a steady-state economy. W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, California. 332pp.
Douthwaite, R. 1992. The growth illusion: how economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many, and endangered the planet. Council Oak Books, Tulsa, Oklahoma. 367pp.
Erickson, J. D. 2000. Endangering the economics of extinction. Wildlife Society Bulletin 28(1):34-41.
Erickson, J. D. 2000. Endangering the economics of extinction. Wildlife Society Bulletin 28(1):34-41.
Gaffney, M. 1994. The corruption of economics. Shepheard-Walwyn, London.
Goodland, R. 1992. The case that the world has reached limits: more precisely that current throughput growth in the global economy cannot be sustained. Population and Environment 13(3):167-182.
Gowdy, J. M., and C. N. McDaniel. 1999. The physical destruction of Nauru: an example of weak sustainability. Land Economics 75(2).
Hall, C. A. S., P. W. Jones, T. M. Donovan, and J. P. Gibbs. 2000. The implications of mainstream economics for wildlife conservation. Wildlife Society Bulletin 28:16-25.
Hall, C. A. S., R. G. Pontius Jr., L. Coleman, and J. Y. Ko. 1994. The environmental consequences of having a baby in the United States. Population and Environment 15(6):505-524.
Hall, C. A. S., P. W. Jones, T. M. Donovan, and J. P. Gibbs. 2000. The implications of mainstream economics for wildlife conservation. Wildlife Society Bulletin 28:16-25.
Hall, C. A. S., R. G. Pontius Jr., L. Coleman, and J. Y. Ko. 1994. The environmental consequences of having a baby in the United States. Population and Environment 15(6):505-524.
Hickerson, Robert L., 1995. Hubbert's prescription for survival: a steady state economy.
Heilbroner, R. L. 1992. The worldly philosophers: the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers. Sixth edition. Simon and Schuster, New York, New York. 365pp.
Hueting, R. 2007. Intoduction to the theory of eSNI, a macro indicator for sustainable development. Paper for the OECD Global Project - Measuring the Progress of Societies.
James, P. C. 1994. On economic growth and ecological decay. Conservation Biology 8(4):1161-1162.
Jansson, A. M., M. Hammer, C. Folke, and R. Costanza, editors. 1994. Investing in natural capital. Island Press, Washington, D.C. 504pp.
Jenkins, P. T. 1996. Free trade and exotic species introductions. Conservation Biology 10(1):300-302.
Jenkins, P. T. 1996. Free trade and exotic species introductions. Conservation Biology 10(1):300-302.
Kerr, J. T., and D. J. Currie. 1995. Effects of human activity on global extinction risk. Conservation Biology 9(5):1528-1538.
Krishnan, R., J. M. Harris, and N. R. Goodwin, editors. 1995. A survey of ecological economics. Island Press, Washington, D.C. 384pp.
Lambert, R. J. 1992. Rethinking productivity: the perspective of the earth as the primary corporation. Population and Environment 13(3):193-208.
Loomis, J. B. 2000. Can environmental economic valuations techniques aid ecological economics and wildlife conservation? Wildlife Society Bulletin 28:52-60.
McKibben, B. 2007. Deep economy. Henry Holt and Company, New York, New York. 261pp.
Nadeau, R. L. 2003. The wealth of nature: how mainstream economics has failed the environment. Columbia University Press, New York.
Odum, H. T., and E. C. Odum. 2001. A prosperous way down: principles and policies. University Press of Colorado.
Ormerod, P. 1997. The death of economics. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
Pimentel, D., R. Harman, M. Pacenza, J. Pecarsky, and M. Pimentel. 1994. Natural resources and an optimum human population. Population and Environment 15(5):347-368.
Prugh, T., R. Costanza, J. H. Cumberland, H. Daly, R. Goodland, and R. B. Norgaard. 1995. Natural capital and human economic survival. ISEE Press, Solomons, Maryland. 198pp.
Schor, J. B. 1998. The overspent American: upscaling, downshifting, and the new consumer. Basic Books, New York, New York. 253pp.
Schor, J. B. 1998. The overspent American: upscaling, downshifting, and the new consumer. Basic Books, New York, New York. 253pp.
Schor, J. B. 1991. The overworked American: the unexpected decline of leisure. Basic Books, New York, New York. 247pp.
Schwartz, B. 2004. The paradox of choice: why more is less. Ecco, New York, New York. 288pp.
Soskolne, C. 2007. Sustaining life on earth: environmental and human health through global governance. Lexington Books, 478pp.
Speth, J. G. 2008. The bridge at the edge of the world: capitalism, the environment, and crossing from crisis to sustainability. Yale University Press, 295pp.
Veblen, T. 1973. The theory of the leisure class. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts. 261pp.
Vitousek, P. M., P. R. Ehrlich, A. H. Ehrlich, and P. Matson. 1986. Human appropriation of the products of photosynthesis. Bioscience 36:368-373.
Willers, B. 1994. Sustainable development: a new world deception. Conservation Biology 8(4):1146-1148.
Vitousek, P. M., P. R. Ehrlich, A. H. Ehrlich, and P. Matson. 1986. Human appropriation of the products of photosynthesis. Bioscience 36:368-373.
Willers, B. 1994. Sustainable development: a new world deception. Conservation Biology 8(4):1146-1148.
