Like Mother Nature gives us free-of-charge many vital things in support of our life, this book is a freely downloadable public good meant for harmoniously connecting humankind with Nature. Robert Costanza and Herman Daly are the two economists among the authors, who can be taken as the famous founders and proponents of Ecological Economics as a new, transdisciplinary branch of heterodox economics, that rose in the mid-1980s. For these authors, economics is embedded in the broader ecosystem that supports all human activity, and so there are both limits for economic growth and opportunities to improve long-term human well-being...