Systemic Crises in Hierarchical Ecological Economies

J. Barkley Rosser

Land Economics, 1995, vol. 71, issue 2, 163-172

Abstract: Human beings are both the slaves and the masters of the ecosystems in which they live. This paper examines the interrelationship between economic decision-making hierarchies and ecological hierarchies. Conditions under which discontinuous changes can occur are presented both for top-down and bottom-up causes. Appropriate institutional arrangements for minimizing ecological disruption are analyzed and depend on the nature of the relationship between the economic and ecological hierarchies. In some cases this will involve self-managed economic units operating at the appropriate level of the ecological hierarchy.

Date: 1995
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