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Featured Resources Ecological Economics: a journal that furthers the study and management of "nature's household" (ecology) and "humankind's household" The Ecological Economics web-log is designed to daylight and refine economists’ and ecologists' views, agreements, and disagreements on current environmental and natural resource issues. Featured OrganizationsThe European Society for Ecological Economics is dedicated to advancing understanding of the relationships among ecological, social and economic systems for the mutual well-being of nature and people. Earth Economics is devoted to promoting ecosystem health and ecological economics and to halting the globalization of unsustainable economic policies, focusing on the vital areas of toxics, forests, fisheries and global trade policy. |
Ecological Economics
"Decision
making requires either explicit or implicit valuation, so it is
important to recognize the relationship between valuation and the goals
being served. There are at least three broad goals which have been
identified as important to managing economic systems within the context
of the planet's ecological life support system:
1. ecological sustainability 2. social fairness 3. resource allocation efficiency Ecological Economics is an attempt to incorporate the above ideas in a transdisciplinary effort including a full range of natural and social sciences. It has made significant progress in redefining broad social goals, valuation of human, natural and social capital relative to those goals and developing adaptive institutions to implement the new goals"  |
Keywords
environmental accounting, natural capital, natural
capitalism, ecology, externalities, external costs, valuing ecosystem
services, natural life-support structure, economic value, ecocentric,
economy, alternate economies, scarcity, green business, human
well-being, biosphere well-being, green economics, sustainability,
sustainable development, growth, welfare, supply and demand, fungible,
triple bottom line, practical economics
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