Contents: Foreword by Jacqueline McGlade xii Preface xv In memoriam: Eric Zencey 1953–2019 xvii 1 Introduction: what is ecological economics and why do we need it now more than ever 1 Robert Costanza, Jon D. Erickson, Joshua Farley, and Ida Kubiszewski PART I THE FUTURE WE WANT 2 Creating positive futures for humanity on earth 17 Robert Costanza, Elizabeth M. B. Doran, Tatiana Gladkikh, Ida Kubiszewski, Valerie A. Luzadis, and Eric Zencey 3 Work, labour, and regenerative production 27 Kaitlin Kish and Stephen Quilley 4 The role of technology in achieving the future we want 45 Stewart Wallis, Lindsay Barbieri, Alice Damiano, and Matthew Burke 5 Ecological economics in China: from origins, to inertia, to rejuvenation 61 Xi Ji 6 Taking evolution seriously: the role of ecological economics in escaping the Anthropocene and reaching for the Ecozoic 90 Peter G. Brown and John Gowdy PART II MEASURING AND ACHIEVING WELLBEING 7 Frameworks and systems thinking for measuring and achieving sustainable wellbeing 103 Elizabeth M. B. Doran, Lindsay Barbieri, Ida Kubiszewski, Kate Pickett, Thomas Dietz, Michael Abrams, Richard Wilkinson, Robert Costanza, Stephen C. Farber, and Jeannine Valcour 8 How ecosystem services research can advance ecological economics principles 127 Rachelle K. Gould, Taylor H. Ricketts, Richard B. Howarth, Svenja Telle, Tatiana Gladkikh, Stephen Posner, Jesse Gourevitch, and Yuki Yoshida 9 Wellbeing in the more-than-human world 151 Kristian Brevik, John Adams, Benjamin Dube, Lindsay Barbieri, and Gabriel Yahya Haage 10 From measurement to application: wellbeing indicators in socio-ecological systems 167 Kati Gallagher, Michael Moser, Mairi-Jane V. Fox, and Jane Kolodinsky 11 The struggle for equality and sustainability 179 Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett 12 Human health and ecological economics 188 Martin Hensher PART III THE INSTITUTIONS WE REQUIRE 13 Cultural evolution, multi-level selection, and institutions for cooperation 210 Joshua Farley, John Gowdy, and Stephen Marshall 14 Moral and ethical foundations for ecological economics 229 Dan Spethmann and Valerie A. Luzadis 15 Governing for sustainable development: rethinking governance and ecological economics 243 Christopher Koliba, Megan Egler, and Stephen Posner 16 Money, interest rates and accumulation on a finite planet: revisiting the ‘monetary growth imperative’ through institutionalist approaches 266 Romain Svartzman, Joseph Ament, David Barmes, Jon D. Erickson, Joshua Farley, Charles Guay-Boutet, and Nicolas Kosoy 17 The nature and role of business in an ecological economy 284 Mairi-Jane V. Fox, Abigail B. Schneider, Marilyn T. Lucas, and Beth Schaefer Caniglia 18 Principles of stakeholder engagement for ecological economics 300 Madhavi Venkatesan, Jon D. Erickson, and Christine Carmichael PART IV INTEGRATED, DYNAMIC ANALYSIS AND MODELLING OF SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS 19 Integrated ecological economic modeling: what is it good for? 316 Alexey Voinov, Pascal Perez, Juan Carlos Castilla-Rho, and Daniel C. Kenny 20 Designing participatory decision support systems: towards meta-decision making analytics in the next generation of ecological economics 342 Asim Zia and Roel Boumans 21 A research agenda for ecological macroeconomics 357 Peter A. Victor and Tim Jackson PART V MAKING THE TRANSITION 22 Local economies: leading the way to an ecological economy 374 Sabine O’Hara and Daniel Baker 23 Systemic design and systemic crisis in the United States: the pluralist Commonwealth 386 Gar Alperovitz and Joseph Ament 24 Creating a Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) to motivate and facilitate the transition 399 Robert Costanza, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Ida Kubiszewski, Deborah Markowitz, Christopher Orr, Katherine Trebeck, and Stewart Wallis PART VI SURVEYS OF THE LARGER COMMUNITY ABOUT THE RESEARCH AGENDA 25 Ecological economic goals from emerging scholars 409 Kaitlin Kish and Sam Bliss 26 Assessing ecological economics at 30: results from a survey of ISEE members 427 Benjamin Dube Index 445