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Joan Martinezalier - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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between science and activism learning and teaching Ecological Economics with environmental justice organisations
Local Environment, 2011Co-Authors: Joan Martinezalier, Hali Healy, Leah Temper, Mariana Walter, Beatriz Rodriguezlabajos, Julienfrancois Gerber, Marta CondeAbstract:Activists are motivated by interests and values, making use only of the evidence that supports their arguments. They are not dispassionate as scientists are supposed to be. There is therefore something antithetical between science and activism. Nevertheless, environmental justice organisations (EJOs) have accumulated stocks of activist knowledge of great value to the field of Ecological Economics, which sometimes becomes available to academics and influences public policies. Vice versa, some concepts and methods from Ecological Economics are useful in practice to EJOs. In this paper, we use the knowledge built through the European Commission-funded projects Civil Society Engagement with Ecological Economics and Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade to understand the relations between academic theories such as Ecological Economics and political ecology and activist practice in EJOs. Some work by researchers in Ecological Economics and political ecology can be understood as activism-led...
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between science and activism learning and teaching Ecological Economics with environmental justice organisations
Local Environment, 2011Co-Authors: Joan Martinezalier, Hali Healy, Leah Temper, Mariana Walter, Beatriz Rodriguezlabajos, Julienfrancois Gerber, Marta CondeAbstract:Activists are motivated by interests and values, making use only of the evidence that supports their arguments. They are not dispassionate as scientists are supposed to be. There is therefore something antithetical between science and activism. Nevertheless, environmental justice organisations (EJOs) have accumulated stocks of activist knowledge of great value to the field of Ecological Economics, which sometimes becomes available to academics and influences public policies. Vice versa, some concepts and methods from Ecological Economics are useful in practice to EJOs. In this paper, we use the knowledge built through the European Commission-funded projects Civil Society Engagement with Ecological Economics and Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade to understand the relations between academic theories such as Ecological Economics and political ecology and activist practice in EJOs. Some work by researchers in Ecological Economics and political ecology can be understood as activism-led...
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linking political ecology with Ecological Economics in tree plantation conflicts in cameroon and ecuador
Ecological Economics, 2009Co-Authors: Julienfrancois Gerber, Sandra Veuthey, Joan MartinezalierAbstract:Abstract Industrial tree plantations are rapidly expanding worldwide and notably causing a growing number of conflicts between companies and local populations. Such conflicts — the focus of the article — have been neglected by Ecological economists although there is a proliferation of related reports by environmental non-governmental organizations. This paper uses empirical evidence to show how elements of political ecology and Ecological Economics can be combined for understanding the languages of valuation deployed in tree plantation conflicts in Southern countries. Combining qualitative fieldwork on a Cameroonian rubber plantation and an Ecuadorian eucalypt plantation with a methodological framework taken from the study of social metabolism, we find that both conflicts (although with different emphasis) arise because of land and biomass appropriation, ground clearing, pollution from agrochemicals, and water shortage and are expressed as conflicts on valuation. The metabolism of such tree plantations, through the exchanges of materials with the local environment, explains the bio-physical basis of such conflicts. In the Cameroon case, resistance is mainly sporadic and individual, while in Ecuador, a grassroots organization has been able to respond to rural demands in a structured way. Both patterns of resistance are found in other present-day resource extraction conflicts.
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political ecology Ecological Economics and public health interfaces for the sustainability of development and health promotion
Cadernos De Saude Publica, 2007Co-Authors: Marcelo Firpo De Souza Porto, Joan MartinezalierAbstract:This article proposes to focus contributions from political ecology and Ecological Economics to the field of collective health with a view towards integrating the discussions around health promotion, socio-environmental sustainability, and development. Ecological Economics is a recent interdisciplinary field that combines economists and other professionals from the social, human, and life sciences. The field has developed new concepts and methodologies that seek to grasp the relationship between the economy and Ecological and social processes such as social metabolism and metabolic profile, thereby interrelating economic, material, and energy flows and producing indicators and indexes for (un)sustainability. Meanwhile, political ecology approaches Ecological issues and socio-environmental conflicts based on the economic and power dynamics characterizing modern societies. Collective health and the discussions on health promotion can expand our understanding of territory, communities, and the role of science and institutions based on the contributions of political ecology and Ecological Economics in analyzing development models and the distributive and socio-environmental conflicts generated by them.
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weak comparability of values as a foundation for Ecological Economics
Ecological Economics, 1998Co-Authors: Joan Martinezalier, Giuseppe Munda, John OneillAbstract:The main argument of this paper is that weak comparability of values should be seen as one characteristic feature of Ecological Economics. The formal properties of the concepts of strong comparability (implying strong or weak commensurability) and weak comparability (implying incommensurability) will be clarified. Multicriteria evaluation offers the methodological and mathematical tools to operationalize the concept of incommensurability at both macro and micro levels of analysis. The concept of incommensurability of values already has a long tradition in Economics; moreover, we will show that analytic philosophy, theories of complexity, post-normal science and the recent theories of rationality lead with different trajectories to a non-algorithmic approach which, in our view, could be implemented by some forms of multicriteria evaluation. © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Clive L Spash - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a tale of three paradigms realising the revolutionary potential of Ecological Economics
Ecological Economics, 2020Co-Authors: Clive L SpashAbstract:Abstract Ecological Economics has ontological foundations that inform it as a paradigm both biophysically and socially. It stands in strong opposition to mainstream thought on the operations of the economy and society. The core arguments deconstruct and oppose both growth and price-making market paradigms. However, in contradiction of these theoretical foundations, Ecological economists can be found who call upon neoclassical economic theory as insightful, price-making and capitalist markets as socially justified means of allocation and economic growth as achieving progress and development. The more radical steady-state and post-growth/degrowth movements are shown to include confused and conflicted stances in relation to the mainstream hegemonic paradigms. Ecological Economics personally challenges those trained in mainstream theory to move beyond their orthodox education and leave behind the flawed theories and concepts that contribute to supporting systems that create social, Ecological and economic crises. This paper makes explicit the paradigmatic struggle of the past thirty years and the need to wipe away mainstream apologetics, pragmatic conformity and ill-conceived postmodern pluralism. It details the core paradigmatic conflict and specifies the alternative social Ecological economic paradigm along with a new research agenda.
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the shallow or the deep Ecological Economics movement
2013Co-Authors: Clive L SpashAbstract:Ecological Economics and its policy recommendations have become overwhelmed by economic valuation, shadow pricing, sustainability measures, and squeezing Nature into the commodity boxes of goods, services and capital in order to make it part of mainstream economic, financial and banking discourses. There are deeper concerns which touch upon the understanding of humanity in its various social, psychological, political and ethical facets. The relationship with Nature proposed by the Ecological Economics movement has the potential to be far reaching. However, this is not the picture portrayed by surveying the amassed body of articles from this journal or by many of those claiming affiliation. A shallow movement, allied to a business as usual politics and economy, has become dominant and imposes its preoccupation with mainstream economic concepts and values. If, instead, Ecological economists choose a path deep into the world of interdisciplinary endeavour they will need to be prepared to transform themselves and society. The implications go far beyond the pragmatic use of magic numbers to convince politicians and the public that ecology still has something relevant to say in the 21st Century. (author's abstract)
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new foundations for Ecological Economics
Ecological Economics, 2012Co-Authors: Clive L SpashAbstract:Abstract Ecological Economics has been repeatedly described as transdiciplinary and open to including everything from positivism to relativism. I argue for a revision and rejection of this position in favour of realism and reasoned critique. Looking into the ontological presuppositions and considering an epistemology appropriate for Ecological Economics to meaningfully exist requires rejecting the form of methodological pluralism which has been advocated since the start of this journal. This means being clear about the differences in our worldview (or paradigm) from others and being aware of the substantive failures of orthodox Economics in addressing reality. This paper argues for a fundamental review of the basis upon which Ecological Economics has been founded and in so doing seeks improved clarity as to the competing and complementary epistemologies and methodologies. In part this requires establishing serious interdisciplinary research to replace superficial transdisciplinary rhetoric. The argument places the future of Ecological Economics firmly amongst heterodox economic schools of thought and in ideological opposition to those supporting the existing institutional structures perpetuating a false reality of the world's social, environmental and economic systems and their operation.
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social Ecological Economics understanding the past to see the future
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2011Co-Authors: Clive L SpashAbstract:The attempt to provide insight into the interactions between the economy and the environment has been an on-going struggle for many decades. The rise of Ecological Economics can be seen as a positive step towards integrating social and natural science understanding by a movement that aims to go beyond the confines of mainstream Economics towards a progressive political economy of the environment. However, this vision has not been shared by all those who have associated themselves with Ecological Economics and there has been conflict. An historical analysis is presented that shows the role of mainstream theory in delimiting the field of environmental research. The argument is put forward that rather than employing a purely mechanistic objective empirical methodology there is a need for an integrating interdisciplinarity heterodox economic approach. In order to distinguish this approach—from the more mainstream multidisciplinary linking of unreconstituted Ecological and economic models—the name Social Ecological Economics is put forward as expressing the essential socio-economic character of the needed work ahead.
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post keynesian and Ecological Economics confronting environmental issues
2009Co-Authors: Richard P F Holt, Steven Pressman, Clive L SpashAbstract:Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Post Keynesian and Ecological Economics: Alternative Perspectives on Sustainability and Development Richard P.F. Holt, Steven Pressman and Clive L. Spash PART II: METHODOLOGY AND HISTORY OF THOUGHT 2. Recent Developments in Post Keynesian Methodology and Their Relevance for Understanding Environmental Issues Andrew Mearman 3. Challenges for Post Keynesian Growth Theory: Utopia Meets Environmental and Social Reality Clive L. Spash and Heinz Schandl 4. The Environmental Case for a Collective Assessment of Economism Richard Norgaard 5. The Post Keynesian/Ecological Economics of Kenneth Boulding Robert Scott III 6. Combining Post Keynesian, Ecological and Institutional Economics' Perspectives Arild Vatn PART III: CONSUMERS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE 7. Post Keynesian Consumer Choice Theory and Ecological Economics Marc Lavoie 8. Price-based versus Standards-Based Approaches to Reducing Car Addiction and other Environmentally Destructive Activities Peter Earl and Tim Wakeley 9. The Socio-Psychology of Achieving Sustainable Consumption: An Example Using Mass Communication Lucia Reisch, Clive L. Spash and Sabine Bietz PART IV: STRUCTURING SYSTEMS OF PRODUCTION 10. Incorporating Biophysical Foundations in a Hierarchical Model of Societal Metabolism John Gowdy, Mario Giampietro, Jesus Ramos-Martin and Kozo Mayumi 11. Theoretical and Policy Issues in Complex Post Keynesian Ecological Economics Barkley Rosser, Jr 12. Environmental Innovation: A Post Keynesian Interpretation James Juniper 13. The Sustainable Economic Development of Traditional Peoples James Kahn and Alexandre Rivas 14. Optimize vs. Satisfice: Two Approaches to an Investment Policy in Sustainable Development Jerry Courvisanos Index
Robert Costanza - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Ecological Economics in 2049 getting beyond the argument culture to the world we all want
Ecological Economics, 2020Co-Authors: Robert CostanzaAbstract:Abstract Ecological Economics (EE) was originally envisioned as a transdiscipline with the following core characteristics and goals: (1) a focus on the primary goal of sustainable wellbeing of both humans and the rest of nature; (2) three broad sub-goals of sustainable scale, fair distribution, and efficient allocation. (3) intelligent pluralism and integration across disciplines, rather than territorial disciplinary differentiation; (4) concern with the functioning of the interdependent system of humans embedded in the rest of nature from an evolutionary, whole systems perspective; (5) an emphasis on the development of valuation techniques that build on a broad understanding of the interaction of built, human, social and natural capital to produce sustainable wellbeing. These characteristics and goals make Ecological Economics applicable to some of the major problems facing humanity today, and especially to the problem of improving humanity’s wellbeing and assuring its survival within the biosphere. Going forward EE must move further beyond the argument culture to finally become the meta-paradigm that it was originally envisioned to be. It can use its tools and vision to enable society to overcome its addiction to the current unsustainable growth paradigm and make the transition to the world we all want.
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a nexus approach to urban and regional planning using the four capital framework of Ecological Economics
2016Co-Authors: Robert Costanza, Ida KubiszewskiAbstract:Ecological Economics views our world as an interconnected complex system of humanity embedded in the rest of nature. It is thus fundamentally a nexus approach. It recognizes four basic types of capital assets necessary, in a balanced way, to produce sustainable well-being of humans and the rest of nature. These include (1) built or manufactured capital, (2) human capital (e.g. human labour and knowledge), (3) social capital (e.g. communities, cultures and institutions, including the financial system) and natural capital (resources and natural ecosystems and their products that do not require human activity to build or maintain). Creating a sustainable and desirable future will require an integrated, systems-level redesign of our cities and our entire socioEcological regime and economic paradigm focused explicitly and directly on the goal of sustainable quality of life and well-being with minimal waste rather than the proxy of unlimited material growth. It will require the recognition and measurement of the contributions of natural and social capital to sustainable well-being. It is a design problem on a massive scale. An integrated, nexus approach to urban and regional planning and design must be a central component of this process.
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influential publications in Ecological Economics revisited
MPRA Paper, 2015Co-Authors: Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski, Richard B Howarth, Gael Plumecocq, David I. SternAbstract:We revisit the analysis of Costanza et al. (2004, Ecological Economics) of influential publications in Ecological Economics to discover what has changed a decade on. We examine which sources have been influential on the field of Ecological Economics in the past decade, which articles in the journal Ecological Economics have had the most influence on the field and on the rest of science, and on which areas of science the journal is having the most influence. We find that the field has matured over this period, with articles published in the journal having a greater influence than before, an increase in citation links to environmental studies journals and a reduction in citation links to mainstream Economics journals, and possibly a shift in themes to a more applied and empirical direction.
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science and Ecological Economics integrating of the study of humans and the rest of nature
Bulletin of Science Technology & Society, 2009Co-Authors: Robert CostanzaAbstract:Ecological Economics is a transdisciplinary field that seeks to integrate the study of humans and the rest of nature as the basis for the creation of a sustainable and desirable future. It seeks to...
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Ecological Economics of coastal disasters introduction to the special issue
Ecological Economics, 2007Co-Authors: Robert Costanza, Joshua FarleyAbstract:Abstract Coastal disasters are increasing in frequency and magnitude—measured in terms of human lives lost, destroyed infrastructure, Ecological damage and disrupted social networks. Hurricane Katrina and the Indian Ocean tsunami illustrate the severe and widespread impacts of such disasters on human well-being. The proximate cause of most of these disasters is “forces of nature”. However, human decisions, driven largely by economic forces, do much to aggravate these natural disasters—for example, coastal mangroves and wetlands protect coastal communities from wave surges and winds, but are rapidly being converted for the production of market goods, and anthropogenic climate change driven by the energy use of our economy may exacerbate coastal disasters in several ways. The goal of Economics should be to improve the sustainable well-being of humans. Our well-being is generated in part by the production of market goods and services, but also by the goods and services provided by nature, by social networks and norms, by knowledge and health–in short: built, natural, social and human capital, respectively. In seeking to increase human well-being solely by maximizing the monetary value of market goods (built capital), our current economic system may be doing more to undermine our sustainable well-being than to improve it, a point made clear by the growing negative impacts of coastal disasters. An economic system should allocate available resources in a way that equitably and efficiently provides for the sustainable well-being of people by protecting and investing in all four types of capital. This is what Ecological Economics seeks to do. This article introduces ten papers that apply the four capital framework to the analysis of coastal disasters, seeking to understand their impacts and how to mitigate them, how to predict and plan for them, and how to use this information to redesign coastal areas in a more sustainable and desirable way.
Julienfrancois Gerber - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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decommodification as a foundation for Ecological Economics
Ecological Economics, 2017Co-Authors: Jeandavid Gerber, Julienfrancois GerberAbstract:Ecological economists have emphasized the study of commodification (i.e., the development of market-based exchange and valuation) rather than decommodification processes (i.e., the degree of immunization from market dependency). This is surprising given the fact that large-scale decommodification may be our best option for a post-growth transition so dear to many Ecological economists. Based on Heinsohn and Steiger's theory of ownership, we seek to provide an institutional foundation to processes of (de)commodification. These two authors distinguish between ‘property’ and ‘possession’, two bundles of rights generating different logics and consequences. We illustrate this approach with three cases taken from an advanced capitalist economy, Switzerland, showing how commodification and decommodification processes may appear together or vigorously oppose each other. Cooperatives, forests and municipal land are examples of (partial) decommodified assets that follow a logic of possession and are therefore more likely to be sustainable. It is high time that the study of decommodification becomes central to Ecological Economics.
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between science and activism learning and teaching Ecological Economics with environmental justice organisations
Local Environment, 2011Co-Authors: Joan Martinezalier, Hali Healy, Leah Temper, Mariana Walter, Beatriz Rodriguezlabajos, Julienfrancois Gerber, Marta CondeAbstract:Activists are motivated by interests and values, making use only of the evidence that supports their arguments. They are not dispassionate as scientists are supposed to be. There is therefore something antithetical between science and activism. Nevertheless, environmental justice organisations (EJOs) have accumulated stocks of activist knowledge of great value to the field of Ecological Economics, which sometimes becomes available to academics and influences public policies. Vice versa, some concepts and methods from Ecological Economics are useful in practice to EJOs. In this paper, we use the knowledge built through the European Commission-funded projects Civil Society Engagement with Ecological Economics and Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade to understand the relations between academic theories such as Ecological Economics and political ecology and activist practice in EJOs. Some work by researchers in Ecological Economics and political ecology can be understood as activism-led...
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between science and activism learning and teaching Ecological Economics with environmental justice organisations
Local Environment, 2011Co-Authors: Joan Martinezalier, Hali Healy, Leah Temper, Mariana Walter, Beatriz Rodriguezlabajos, Julienfrancois Gerber, Marta CondeAbstract:Activists are motivated by interests and values, making use only of the evidence that supports their arguments. They are not dispassionate as scientists are supposed to be. There is therefore something antithetical between science and activism. Nevertheless, environmental justice organisations (EJOs) have accumulated stocks of activist knowledge of great value to the field of Ecological Economics, which sometimes becomes available to academics and influences public policies. Vice versa, some concepts and methods from Ecological Economics are useful in practice to EJOs. In this paper, we use the knowledge built through the European Commission-funded projects Civil Society Engagement with Ecological Economics and Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade to understand the relations between academic theories such as Ecological Economics and political ecology and activist practice in EJOs. Some work by researchers in Ecological Economics and political ecology can be understood as activism-led...
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linking political ecology with Ecological Economics in tree plantation conflicts in cameroon and ecuador
Ecological Economics, 2009Co-Authors: Julienfrancois Gerber, Sandra Veuthey, Joan MartinezalierAbstract:Abstract Industrial tree plantations are rapidly expanding worldwide and notably causing a growing number of conflicts between companies and local populations. Such conflicts — the focus of the article — have been neglected by Ecological economists although there is a proliferation of related reports by environmental non-governmental organizations. This paper uses empirical evidence to show how elements of political ecology and Ecological Economics can be combined for understanding the languages of valuation deployed in tree plantation conflicts in Southern countries. Combining qualitative fieldwork on a Cameroonian rubber plantation and an Ecuadorian eucalypt plantation with a methodological framework taken from the study of social metabolism, we find that both conflicts (although with different emphasis) arise because of land and biomass appropriation, ground clearing, pollution from agrochemicals, and water shortage and are expressed as conflicts on valuation. The metabolism of such tree plantations, through the exchanges of materials with the local environment, explains the bio-physical basis of such conflicts. In the Cameroon case, resistance is mainly sporadic and individual, while in Ecuador, a grassroots organization has been able to respond to rural demands in a structured way. Both patterns of resistance are found in other present-day resource extraction conflicts.
Marta Conde - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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between science and activism learning and teaching Ecological Economics with environmental justice organisations
Local Environment, 2011Co-Authors: Joan Martinezalier, Hali Healy, Leah Temper, Mariana Walter, Beatriz Rodriguezlabajos, Julienfrancois Gerber, Marta CondeAbstract:Activists are motivated by interests and values, making use only of the evidence that supports their arguments. They are not dispassionate as scientists are supposed to be. There is therefore something antithetical between science and activism. Nevertheless, environmental justice organisations (EJOs) have accumulated stocks of activist knowledge of great value to the field of Ecological Economics, which sometimes becomes available to academics and influences public policies. Vice versa, some concepts and methods from Ecological Economics are useful in practice to EJOs. In this paper, we use the knowledge built through the European Commission-funded projects Civil Society Engagement with Ecological Economics and Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade to understand the relations between academic theories such as Ecological Economics and political ecology and activist practice in EJOs. Some work by researchers in Ecological Economics and political ecology can be understood as activism-led...
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between science and activism learning and teaching Ecological Economics with environmental justice organisations
Local Environment, 2011Co-Authors: Joan Martinezalier, Hali Healy, Leah Temper, Mariana Walter, Beatriz Rodriguezlabajos, Julienfrancois Gerber, Marta CondeAbstract:Activists are motivated by interests and values, making use only of the evidence that supports their arguments. They are not dispassionate as scientists are supposed to be. There is therefore something antithetical between science and activism. Nevertheless, environmental justice organisations (EJOs) have accumulated stocks of activist knowledge of great value to the field of Ecological Economics, which sometimes becomes available to academics and influences public policies. Vice versa, some concepts and methods from Ecological Economics are useful in practice to EJOs. In this paper, we use the knowledge built through the European Commission-funded projects Civil Society Engagement with Ecological Economics and Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade to understand the relations between academic theories such as Ecological Economics and political ecology and activist practice in EJOs. Some work by researchers in Ecological Economics and political ecology can be understood as activism-led...
