Contents

The Stockholm Conference at 50

The article is a short introduction to the Symposium: "The 1972 Stockholm Conference, Fifty Years Later: What Legacy?" written by...

Un-common Nature. Neo-Malthusian Environmentalism Before 1972 UN Stockholm Conference

This contribution offers an historical conceptual analysis of the population question, as it was articulated by Neo-Malthusian intellectuals G. Hardin...

The Nixon Administration on the Way to Stockholm 1972. The Diplomatic Side

For US foreign policy, the Stockholm conference represented a significant stage, which American diplomacy reached after months of specific, intense work....

The International Labour Organization facing the UN Conference on the Human Environment (1968-1978)

This essay deals with the debate within the International Labour Organization regarding the accession in the Conference on the Human...

Giorgio Nebbia, Bartolomeo Sorge and the Contribution of the Holy See to the UN Conference on Human Environment

The Stockholm Conference represented a turning point for the global consideration of environmental issues not only because of the decisions...

Barbara Ward and the Transformative Power of the Stockholm Conference at the Birth of Sustainable Development

Barbara Ward was fundamental in promoting an articulated reflection on how to balance economic growth and care for the environment....

Understanding Sustainability Economics. The Examples of Health and Environment

When mainstream neoclassical economics is presented in textbooks for students, the values and ideological orientation of the perspective is not...

“Econosophy”: Venturing a Transdisciplinary Approach to Philosophy and Economics

This paper proposes that the dialogue between economics and philosophy might give origin to a transdisciplinary approach (Bernstein 2015; Davis...

Good Theories and Bad Practices. Speculation and the Economists of the 19th Century

Speculation in commodity and financial markets drew the attention of economists in the mid-19th century, when interconnected organized markets emerged,...