Economics of Sustainability:
A brief bibliography of library holdings about the topic.

Reference Work:

Grafton, R. Quentin. A dictionary of environmental economics, science and policy. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2001.
Ref Collection 333.703 G737d

Databases:

Business and Company ASAP
Information on companies, markets, and industries. Includes business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles.

BusManagement
Contains online articles about the practical aspects of business management. Searches for business concepts, industries, and specific departments within an organization

EconLit
Excellent articles index for researching the economics of sustainability.

See Also: Academic Search Premiere, OmniFile (WilsonWeb) and LexisNexis Academic for citations, abstracts and full-text newspaper, magazine and journal articles.

Subject Headings

Using these Library of Congress Subject Headings in your searches will help you obtain more relevant information from databases and the library catalog:

Business ethics
Social responsibility of business
Industries Social Aspects
Economic policy -- Environmental aspects

Selected works from the Main Collection

Broad, Robin, ed. Global backlash : citizen initiatives for a just world economy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.
Main Collection 337 B863g

Daly, Herman E. Beyond growth : the economics of sustainable development. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.
Main Collection: 333.7 D153b

DeSimone, Livio D. and Frank Popoff. Eco-efficiency : the business link to sustainable development. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997.
Main Collection: 338.98 D457e

Harvard business review on business and the environment. Boston, MA : Harvard Business School Press, 2000.
Main Collection: 658.408 H339b

Kaya, Yoichi and Keiichi Yokobori, eds. Environment, energy, and economy : strategies for sustainability. New York : United Nations University Press, 1997.
Main Collection: 333.79 E61e

Mander, Jerry and Edward Goldsmith, eds. The case against the global economy : and for a turn toward the local. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1996.
Main Collection: 363.7 M272c

Milani, Brian. Designing the green economy : the postindustrial alternative to corporate globalization. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers , 2000.
Main Collection: 338.9 M637d

Mol, A. P. J. Globalization and environmental reform : the ecological modernization of the global economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.
Main Collection: 338.9 M717g

Pezzey, John C.V. and Michael A. Toman. The economics of sustainability. Burlington, VT: Dartmouth, 2002.
Main Collection: 338.927 P522e

Reinhardt, Forest L. Down to earth : applying business principles to environmental management. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2000.
Main Collection: 658.408 R369d

Smith, Denis, ed. Business and the environment : implications of the new environmentalism. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
Main Collection: 363.7057 S645b

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