Social Ecological Economics

Clive Spash

No 2009-08, Socio-Economics and the Environment in Discussion (SEED) Working Paper Series from CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems

Abstract: This paper introduces and explains how ecological economics has developed as a modern movement with its roots in environmentalism and radical environmental economics. Divisions and conflicts within the field are explored to show why material claiming to fall under the title of ecological economics fails to be representative of progress or the vision which drove socio-economic specialists to interact with ecologists in the first place. The argument is then put forward that ecological economics, as a social science engaging with the natural sciences, is a heterodox school of modern political economy.

Keywords: Ecological economics; methodology; ideology; politics; history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B0 B59 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2009-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-env, nep-his, nep-hpe and nep-pke
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