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Title: A Survey of Ecological Economics (Frontier Issues in Economic Thought) by Rajaram Krishnan, Jonathan M. Harris, Neva R. Goodwin ISBN: 1-55963-411-1 Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Only Summaries
Comment: This is a wonderful collection of essays and the introductory sections are very informative, however the complete essays are not included, only 2-3 summaries written by the editors. This may not be clear from the information given by Amazon.com.

The essays are the some of the best in the field and the summaries well written. But, the overall usefulness of this book is limited. It may be a good starting point for research; readers will quickly find themselves wanting the full text of some of the essays summarized. It may also be a useful study guide for students who have read many of the complete articles and would like a quick summary that is more complete then a usual journal abstract.

Beyond that, this is not a helpful book. I would recommend Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability by Robert Costanza, which contains many of the same articles and other works by many of the same authors.

This book is priced much lower than other collections of essays in Ecological Economics, but considering it does not contain full articles it should probably be even cheaper.

Rating: 5
Summary: One to have !
Comment: As a student in environmental economics at masters-level, i must say that this essay collection has come as rain from a blue sky. Essay collections in general is a great thing, and indeed there is a few of reccommendation behind from this one. But two things stands out from this one. Firstly in embraces a vast number of articles which rightly belongs to the "classics" category. And unfortunately such articles are sometimes hard to come by, and a number of the article included in this collection has not, to my knowledge, been published before. Therefore the book is excellent as a reference collection. Furthermore the structure of the book, is made up in such a way, that the articles are printed under a thematic heading. And the editors has managed to provide some excellent introductions to each new subject, which mean that the reader, even though he's not capable of grasping the essence of all the collected essays, at least get a fair idea of the problems involved.

In all, this means this collection, apart from being an important reference book, is providing a very comprehensive way of making essay collections in general. So all five stars are indeed well deserved.

Rating: 5
Summary: Analytical summaries of the best of the literature
Comment: The Frontier Issues in Economic Thought summaries, along with the overview essays, provide a markedly different service from the standard collection of abstracts. The series will benefit not only scholarly work but the application of our best thinking to the problems of the times.

Kenneth Prewit, President, Social Sciences Research Council

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