Introduction: the changing nature of economics - towards an ecological economics / Cutler J. Cleveland, Robert Costanza and David I. Stern
1. Early links between sciences of nature and economics: historical perspectives for ecological and social economics / Paul P. Christensen
2. Theories and methods in ecological economics: a tentative classification / Joan Martinez-Alier, Giuseppe Munda and John O'Neill
3. improvisation of discordant knowledges / Richard B. Norgaard
4. Searching for sustainability: the poverty of spontaneous order / Daniel W. Bromley
5. challenges of valuation: ecological economics between matter and meaning / Sabine U. O'Hara
6. need for a new growth paradigm / Robert U. Ayres
7. Implementing sustainable development: a practical framework / Mohan Munasinghe
8. environmental Kuznets curve: a review / David I. Stern
9. Alternatives to gross domestic product: a critical survey / Richard W. England
10. Natural resource scarcity indictors: an ecological economic synthesis / Cutler J. Cleveland and David I. Stern
11. Green national accounting: goals and methods / Robert Costanza, Steve Farber and Beatriz Castaneda / [et al.].