Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I

Chapter 1: The History of Economic Thought in Relation to Biological Resources and the Environment

• Mercantilian, Physiocratic, Classical Economics

• Neoclassical Economics

• Keynesian Economics

• Marxist Economics

• Theories of Value: Labour, Labour-surplus, Utility, Marginal Utility, Capital,
  Entropy and Bioeconomic

• Concluding Remarks

Chapter 2: The Evolution of Environmentalist Thought and the Economy-Environment Paradigms

• Natural Resource Economics

• Environmental Economics

• Ecological Economics

• Concluding Remarks

PART II

Chapter 3: Bioeconomics:Towards a Postmodern Economic Paradigm

• The Reductionist Socioeconomic Paradigm

• The Holistic Bioeconomic Paradigm

• Is There a Need for Bioeconomics?

• 1. Importance of Biology

• 2. Progress of Scientific Thought and Understanding

• 3. Interdisciplinarity as a Functional Methodology

• 4. The Moral Imperative

• 5. Public Policy Issues

• 6. Bioeconomics as Dialectical Science

• 7. The Intergeneration Dilemma

• 8. Bioeconomic Pricing and Valuing Strategy

• 9. The Sustainability Challenge

• 10. Research Policy

• Some Issues to Be Resolved by the Bioeconomic Paradigm

• Bioeconomics and the Concept of Entropy

• Bioeconomics and the Concept of Coevolution

• Bioeconomics as Interdisciplinary Science

• Bioeconomics as Postmodern Science

• Concluding Remarks

Chapter 4: Towards a Bioeconomically-Sustainable Society

• What is Sustainability and Sustainable development?

• Goals and Objectives of Sustainability

• Strategies for Achieving Goals and Objectives

• Dimensions of Sustainability

• Bioeconomics and Sustainability

• Bioeconomic Development Is Sustainable Development

• The Scientific Basis of Sustainability

• Bioeconomic Modelling for Sustainability

• Bioeconomic Education for Sustainability

• Concluding Remarks

Chapter 5: Challenges to Sustainability

• Clarification of Goals and Objectives

• How to Make Sustainability Operational?

• The Global Value System

• The Role of Science and Technology in Repairing and Preventing Planetary Damage

• The Importance of Communication Media

• The Gender Perspective

• The Population Problem

• The Intergeneration Dilemma

• The Impact of Economic Globalisation

• The Problem of Risk and Uncertainty

• Concuding Remarks

PART III

Chapter 6: The Age of Cooperation

• Agressive Competition Is Not Necessary for Progress

• The Cooperative- Competition Model

• The Bioeconomic Ethical model

• Capitalist Equilibrium Economics Is Unrealistic

• Bioeconomics Is The Real Economics

• Concluding Remarks

Chapter 7: A Visionary Education for Humanity

• The Disciplinary Education Process Is a Failure

• The Value of Cultural Education

• Towards a Bioeconomic Education Process

• Learn How to Learn: Lifelong Education and the Importance of Information Technology

• Concluding Remarks

Bibliography and Recommended Reading

Index