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Mining Conflict in Cordillera del Cóndor | Acción Ecológica, Ecuador
Manta-Manaos Mega-project | Acción Ecológica, Ecuador
Campania Waste Crisis | A Sud, Italy
High Speed Train Conflict (TAV) | A SUD, Italy
Local Governance and Environment Investments | CSE, India
Participatory Forest Management | CSE, India
Nautical Tourism Impacts | SUNCE, Croatia
Djerdap National Park and Local Communities | Endemit, Serbia
Deforestation and REDD Measures in the Amazon | REBRAF, Brazil
Forestry and Communities in Cameroon | CeD-FOE, Cameroon
Environmental Justice / Ecological Debt in Belgium | VODO, Belgium (Flanders)
Aid, Social Metabolism and Social Conflict in India | IFF-UKL, Austria
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EcoEco


This definition of Ecological Economics is based on the paper by Joan Martinez Alier published in the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences.

Working paper, UHE/UAB, 16/05/2001 (available for download here)

To find out about other relevant ecological economics literature and material please go to Resources and check out the Links to EE-related websites and organisations.

Ecological economics is a recently developed field, which sees the economy as a subsystem of a larger finite global ecosystem. Ecological economists question the sustainability of the economy because of its environmental impact and its material and energy requirements, and also because of population growth. Attempts at assigning money values to environmental services and losses, and at correcting macroeconomic accounting are part of ecological economics, but its main thrust is in developing physical indicators and indexes of sustainability. Ecological economists also work on relations between property rights and resource management, model interactions between economy and environment, study ecological distribution conflicts, use management tools such as integrated environmental assessment and multi-criteria decision aids, and propose new instruments of environmental policy.

1. Origins

2. Scope

3. Disputes on Value Standards

4. Environmental Indexes of (Un)sustainability

5. The ‘Dematerialization’ of Consumption?

6. Carrying Capacity and Neo-Malthusianism

7. Final Remarks on Transdisciplinarity

References