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  • 1.  ecological degradation and economic growth

    Posted 11-22-2008 08:52
    Hello Colleagues,
     
    I am searching for studies that give empirical evidence of, and explain how ecological degradation negatively impacts economic growth. Do you know of any academic papers, or government/multi-lateral institutional reports (country-specific or global) that have been published around such a theme that may help me to some degree?
     
    Thank you,
    Aarti   
     
     
    Aarti Sharma
    Department of Management & Organization
    College of Business Administration
    University of South Florida
    4202 E. Fowler Ave., BSN-3524
    Tampa, FL-33620-5500
    Tel: 813-974-4354
    Fax: 813- 974-1734
    Email: asharma@coba.usf.edu
    Web:     http://www.coba.usf.edu/sharma
     


  • 2.  ecological degradation and economic growth

    Posted 11-22-2008 11:01
    i don't have any specific pieces to suggest, but it seems to me that the "domestic peripheries" literature in the 1970s and 1980s (ann markusen, jack gaventa, etc.) argued that the ecological degradation in regions of the u.s. like appalachia in the southeast and the upper peninsula of michigan limited the potential of those regions to develop strong tourist industries . . .
     
    steve bunker's work on the amazon showed how the ecological impacts of any given phase of development then conditioned the possibilities for future phases of development . . .
     
    cheers,
     
    craig
     
    craig k harris
    department of sociology
    michigan agricultural experiment station
    national food safety and toxicology center
    institute for food and agricultural standards
    michigan state university
     

    From: Organizations and the Natural Environment Discussion [mailto:ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Sharma, Aarti
    Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 8:52 AM
    To: ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: ecological degradation and economic growth

    Hello Colleagues,
     
    I am searching for studies that give empirical evidence of, and explain how ecological degradation negatively impacts economic growth. Do you know of any academic papers, or government/multi-lateral institutional reports (country-specific or global) that have been published around such a theme that may help me to some degree?
     
    Thank you,
    Aarti   
     
     
    Aarti Sharma
    Department of Management & Organization
    College of Business Administration
    University of South Florida
    4202 E. Fowler Ave., BSN-3524
    Tampa, FL-33620-5500
    Tel: 813-974-4354
    Fax: 813- 974-1734
    Email: asharma@coba.usf.edu
    Web:     http://www.coba.usf.edu/sharma
     


  • 3.  ecological degradation and economic growth

    Posted 11-22-2008 17:41
    Jared Diamond's book
    _Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed_
    addresses this theme. I don't have the book in front
    of me but I assume the bibliography may have some studies of
    interest.

    http://www.grist.org/advice/books/2005/02/08/kavanagh-collapse/

    - Kevin


    On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Sharma, Aarti wrote:

    > Hello Colleagues,
    >
    > I am searching for studies that give empirical evidence of, and explain how ecological degradation negatively impacts economic growth. Do you know of any academic papers, or government/multi-lateral institutional reports (country-specific or global) that have been published around such a theme that may help me to some degree?
    >
    > Thank you,
    > Aarti
    >
    >
    > Aarti Sharma
    > Department of Management & Organization
    > College of Business Administration
    > University of South Florida
    > 4202 E. Fowler Ave., BSN-3524
    > Tampa, FL-33620-5500
    > Tel: 813-974-4354
    > Fax: 813- 974-1734
    > Email: asharma@coba.usf.edu
    > Web: http://www.coba.usf.edu/sharma <http://www.coba.usf.edu/sharma>
    >
    >


  • 4.  ecological degradation and economic growth

    Posted 11-22-2008 19:08
    Hi Aarti

    You might also check out the work by John Gowdy and Carl McDaniel, two professors (in economics and biology) at Rensselaer (RPI) who write a book and I believe several papers on the Island of Nauru and its collapse due to mining. The book is called "Paradise for Sale".

    Best
    Judith

    Judith L Walls
    Post-doctoral research fellow
    University of Michigan

    ________________________________

    From: Organizations and the Natural Environment Discussion on behalf of Sharma, Aarti
    Sent: Sat 11/22/2008 8:51 AM
    To: ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: ecological degradation and economic growth


    Hello Colleagues,

    I am searching for studies that give empirical evidence of, and explain how ecological degradation negatively impacts economic growth. Do you know of any academic papers, or government/multi-lateral institutional reports (country-specific or global) that have been published around such a theme that may help me to some degree?

    Thank you,
    Aarti


    Aarti Sharma
    Department of Management & Organization
    College of Business Administration
    University of South Florida
    4202 E. Fowler Ave., BSN-3524
    Tampa, FL-33620-5500
    Tel: 813-974-4354
    Fax: 813- 974-1734
    Email: asharma@coba.usf.edu
    Web: http://www.coba.usf.edu/sharma <http://www.coba.usf.edu/sharma>


  • 5.  ecological degradation and economic growth

    Posted 11-23-2008 15:29
    Hi Aarti,
     
    You may find Clive Ponting's book "A  Green history of the world" ( Penguin Publishers) interesting. It does a great job at linking human /social practices with their ecological impacts as well as the opposite ( reduced ecosystem capacity on human systems). It contains lots of stories, cases, etc... I have used several of them in the classroom.
     
    In addition, The Millennium Assessment provides interesting, solid, recent global findings on that matter. http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/index.aspx
     
    Best,
    Emmanuel
     
    HEC Montreal
    ----- Message d'origine -----
    Envoyé : 22 novembre 2008 08:51
    Objet : ecological degradation and economic growth

    Hello Colleagues,
     
    I am searching for studies that give empirical evidence of, and explain how ecological degradation negatively impacts economic growth. Do you know of any academic papers, or government/multi-lateral institutional reports (country-specific or global) that have been published around such a theme that may help me to some degree?
     
    Thank you,
    Aarti   
     
     
    Aarti Sharma
    Department of Management & Organization
    College of Business Administration
    University of South Florida
    4202 E. Fowler Ave., BSN-3524
    Tampa, FL-33620-5500
    Tel: 813-974-4354
    Fax: 813- 974-1734
    Email: asharma@coba.usf.edu
    Web:     http://www.coba.usf.edu/sharma
     


  • 6.  ecological degradation and economic growth

    Posted 11-30-2008 21:13
    Hi Aarti,

    If you want to frame it in terms of eco-systems services, try this citation from Nature.  Best, Tom

    Costanza, R., d'Arge, R., de Groot, R., Farber, S., Grasso, M., Hannon, B., Limburg, K., Naeem, S., O'Neill, R.V., & Paruelo, J. 1997.  The Value of the World's Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital, Nature, 387 (May): 253-260.




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    On 11/22/08 6:51 AM, "Sharma, Aarti" <asharma@COBA.USF.EDU> wrote:

    Hello Colleagues,

    I am searching for studies that give empirical evidence of, and explain how ecological degradation negatively impacts economic growth. Do you know of any academic papers, or government/multi-lateral institutional reports (country-specific or global) that have been published around such a theme that may help me to some degree?

    Thank you,
    Aarti   


    Aarti Sharma
    Department of Management & Organization
    College of Business Administration
    University of South Florida
    4202 E. Fowler Ave., BSN-3524
    Tampa, FL-33620-5500
    Tel: 813-974-4354
    Fax: 813- 974-1734
    Email: asharma@coba.usf.edu
    Web: http://www.coba.usf.edu/sharma     <http://www.coba.usf.edu/sharma>