In 2008-9 Dr Shmelev was a Senior Researcher at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. His previous appointments included Visiting Professorships at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), University Paris Dauphine (France), University of Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines (France), Kazakh National University (Kazakhstan) and National University of Colombia (Colombia). In 2004-2007 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Open University (UK). Dr Shmelev has given invited lectures and seminars in Austria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Hong Kong, India, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, UK and the USA. Dr Shmelev has collaborated with such international organisations as UNEP, IUCN, UNDP, OECD and numerous universities. In 2013 the Handelsblatt Newspaper featured Dr Stanislav Shmelev as one of top four most promising new economists in the world. He is now Director at Environment Europe Ltd, a think-tank based in Oxford.

Aims to fill the gap in understanding ecological economics as one of the important foundations for green economy trend in the new economic thinking

Stimulates further interdisciplinary dialogue, conducted in the spirit of ecological economics, and will support democratic values and methodological and cultural pluralism

A thought provoking collection of top level contributions

Helps to facilitate the transition towards sustainability and educational reform

Will equip MSc and PhD students in economics with the state of the art in sustainability thinking

Includes supplementary material: [...]

PART I. ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS: ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES.- Chapter 1. The Life Required. Political Economy in the Long Emergency.- Chapter 2. How Economics can Become Compatible with Democracy.- Chapter 3. Gaps in Mainstream Economics: Energy, Growth, and Sustainability.- Chapter 4. System of Accounts for Global Entropy Production (SAGE-P).- Chapter 5. Multidimensional Assessment of Sustainability: Harmony vs the Turning Point.- Chapter 6. The Green Economy in Europe: In Search for a Successful Transition.- PART II ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS OF PHYSICAL BALANCE: RESOURCES, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND RENEWABLE ENERGY.- Chapter 7 Measuring Natural Resource Use from the Micro to the Macro Level.- Chapter 8. Regenerative Cities.- Chapter 9. The Economics of Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change.- Chapter 10. A Precautionary Strategy to Avoid Dangerous Climate Change is Affordable: 12 Reasons.- Chapter 11. RenewableEnergy in the UK. A Slow Transition.- PART III ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS OF SOCIAL CHANGE.- Chapter 12. Social Metabolism and Environmental Conflicts: a Comparison between India and Latin America.- Chapter 13. Human Values and Sustainable Development.- Chapter 14. Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature.