ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
The environmental transition towards sustainable development
- Category: Ecology
- Author/Editor: Mercedes Bresso
- Format: Essay/Paperback
- Dimension: 11 cms x 19 cms
- Pages: 146
- Price: 16 €
- Year: 2021
Review
The future of Europe and the post-pandemic world will depend on how international organizations and individual states will be able to combine environmental issues that can no longer be avoided with the challenges of progress. Mercedes Bresso's essay, published for the first time in 1997, has over time become a small classic of reflection on the relationship between the economy and the environment. It is now proposed in an updated version, at a time of intense debate on the ecological transition, fueled by concerns about climate change and the commitment of many young people to the rigorous application of international agreements on the issue, as well as Europe, which has decided that the funds of the Recovery plan will be spent for almost 40% on the green agenda. The author, former professor at the Polytechnic of Turin and later the protagonist of a brilliant political career that led her first to the presidency of the Piedmont Region and then to the European Parliament, has updated her text with an introduction that recalls the path that the economics has accomplished, from the 1970s to today, in the study of the relationship between human societies and the environment. The conclusion opens up paths for the future, which must be characterized by a new paradigm that intertwines economic and ecological knowledge, in a transdisciplinary perspective.