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Kerry R Turner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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integrating natural and socio Economic Science in coastal management
Journal of Marine Systems, 2000Co-Authors: Kerry R TurnerAbstract:Abstract The future more sustainable management of coastal resources is an important policy goal for all governments of countries with coastlines. Coastal areas are under intense environmental change pressure with extensive feedback effects between the natural systems and the human systems. It could be argued that there is just one jointly determined and coevolving system that needs to be studied and managed. Understanding the interactions between the coastal zone and environmental change cannot be achieved by observational studies alone. Modelling of key environmental and socio-Economic processes is a vital tool, required to buttress coastal management institutions and practice. Three overlapping procedural stages can be identified in the coastal resource assessment process. The scoping and auditing stage, implemented via a ‘pressure–state–impact–response’ framework, details, among other thing, problems, system boundaries and value conflicts. The framework is itself based on a conceptual model, which lays stress on functional value diversity and the links between ecosystem processes, functions and outputs of goods and services which are deemed ‘valuable’ by society. The two subsequent stages are integrated modelling, combining natural and social Science methodologies, and evaluation of management options and related gains and losses. An overview of a research project, which utilised the pressure–state–impacts–response (P–S–I–R) framework and supporting concepts and methods, is presented in the last section of the paper, together with some generic ‘lessons’ for interdisciplinary research.
Milja Kurki - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Locating the normative within Economic Science: towards the analysis of hidden discourses of democracy in international politics
Journal of International Relations and Development, 2013Co-Authors: Milja KurkiAbstract:Economic Science has been overwhelmingly perceived as a ‘positive’ Science, both among economists and many scholars in other social Sciences. As a result, there has been an estrangement between the ‘scientific’ study of Economics and the study of ‘fuzzier’ matters of normative nature. Crucially, it is often assumed that economists — whether academics or practitioners — have little to say about democracy, a concept that is famously normative and contested in nature. This article argues that this perception is mistaken and misleading. When several key figures in Economic Science are examined in detail, we can see that their Economic theories are, in fact, deeply intertwined with certain normative visions of democracy, even if implicitly. Recognising the role of hidden normative theories of democracy within Economic Science perspectives is important theoretically, in re-reading the nature and scope of Economic Science discourses. It is also, however, important in understanding some key world political trends. It is argued here that we are in a better position to understand the curious ‘dabbling’ of global financial organisations in matters of ‘political nature’ when we remain attuned to the role of hidden democratic assumptions. Also, the complex role of these organisations in ‘democracy promotion’, and the nature of democracy promotion itself, can thus be better appreciated.
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Locating the normative within Economic Science: towards the analysis of hidden discourses of democracy in international politics
Journal of International Relations and Development, 2013Co-Authors: Milja KurkiAbstract:Economic Science has been overwhelmingly perceived as a ‘positive’ Science, both among economists and many scholars in other social Sciences. As a result, there has been an estrangement between the ‘scientific’ study of Economics and the study of ‘fuzzier’ matters of normative nature. Crucially, it is often assumed that economists — whether academics or practitioners — have little to say about democracy, a concept that is famously normative and contested in nature. This article argues that this perception is mistaken and misleading. When several key figures in Economic Science are examined in detail, we can see that their Economic theories are, in fact, deeply intertwined with certain normative visions of democracy, even if implicitly. Recognising the role of hidden normative theories of democracy within Economic Science perspectives is important theoretically, in re-reading the nature and scope of Economic Science discourses. It is also, however, important in understanding some key world political trends. It is argued here that we are in a better position to understand the curious ‘dabbling’ of global financial organisations in matters of ‘political nature’ when we remain attuned to the role of hidden democratic assumptions. Also, the complex role of these organisations in ‘democracy promotion’, and the nature of democracy promotion itself, can thus be better appreciated.
Xuemin Liu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Exploration on Relativity of Modern Economic Science: Viewpoint Based on Sustainable Development
China Population Resources and Environment, 2007Co-Authors: Xuemin LiuAbstract:Abstract Modern Economics is a market Economic theory and a necessary knowledge for people to understand market economy. However, when modern Economic Science puts in a “great Economic system”, modern Economic Science seems to be little convincing and even deviates from the Science of sustainable development. This shows that modern Economic Science has relativity, and must be transformed by the idea of sustainable development.
Liu Xue-min - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Viewpoint on Relativity of Modern Economic Science based on Sustainable Development
China Population Resources and Environment, 2007Co-Authors: Liu Xue-minAbstract:Modern Economics is the market Economic theory.It's the necessary knowledge for people to understand the market economy.However,when modern Economic Science is put in a "great Economic system",it appears little convincing,and it even lapses from sustainable development.This shows that modern Economic Science has relativity.It must transform the modern Economic Science with the idea of sustainable development.
Mariya Marikina - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Methodological Problems in Research of the Economic Science in the Content of Political Economy and Economics
2011Co-Authors: Mariya MarikinaAbstract:This study is dedicated to some methodological problems and approaches, related to the study of political economy and Economics, as well as the accent on clarification of definitions, the subject and the object of the political economy and Economics, and the evolution in understanding the modern political economy. The main purposes of this study are: implementation of a greater clarification in methodological aspect in the concept of the both directions of the Economic study i?½ political economy and Economics, and lighting of the combination of ideas and understandings in the research of the subject of the modern political economy. The developed thesis is that the review and the study of the Economic Science nowadays should be conducted not backwards to the classic political economy, but forward to the political economy i?½ as a generalizing Science of modern political-Economic system. Along the long way of development of the political economy, the rich characteristics, the exhibited concepts, the developed ideas, the revealed facts, the found principles and the used instruments are also evidence for that in the modern ideas of the Economic Science there is a place in partnership for the different competitive directions of the Economic Science i?½ the political economy and the Economics. The modern political economy should be reviewed as a direction of the Economic Science together with the other direction i?½ what is the Economics. The political economy is an independent Science within the system of Economic Sciences. It was historically thus established, so that its subject always related to production and turnover in its integrity. Therefore it was necessary for the Science in its base. The market is in the first place for the Economics, and its subject, to a great extent, is limited within these frames, dependent on the poor resources and behavior, where the limited, though rational beginning of the Economic subject lies. At the same time, the political economy is oriented towards revealing of objective laws related to development of the human society, it historically analyses its development, it explains the Economic reality of the contemporary world, it studies the influence of the political process related to undertaking choice decisions. The subject world of the political economy comes to new dimensions. It responds to the theoretical eclecticism, the comparative institutional analysis, the empirics, the importance of Economical dynamics and evolution, the formal political analysis, the evolutionary approach to Economic research, to the understanding of global political economy, etc. It is that the political-Economic approach is objectively called upon and able to develop methodological instrumentation for the research of complex relations, formed in the modern civilization.
