8 Clarifying division and seeking unity
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Clive L. Spash
Abstract
If growth in scale is success, then ecological economics appears to have been successful. Three main positions on research are described as constituting ecological economics: new environmental pragmatism, new resource economics and social ecological economics. Four crossover positions, between the three main ones, capture a fuller picture of argumentation about direction and meaning and are explored. The chapter then considers the implications of these seven categories for unity and division within ecological economics. Social ecological economics takes a research position that is distinct from the existing economic orthodoxy, but is also critical of the pragmatic willingness to adopt whatever is assumed to achieve a given end. Several authors have advocated the idea of a potential union between ecological economics and neoclassical resource and environmental economics.
Abstract
If growth in scale is success, then ecological economics appears to have been successful. Three main positions on research are described as constituting ecological economics: new environmental pragmatism, new resource economics and social ecological economics. Four crossover positions, between the three main ones, capture a fuller picture of argumentation about direction and meaning and are explored. The chapter then considers the implications of these seven categories for unity and division within ecological economics. Social ecological economics takes a research position that is distinct from the existing economic orthodoxy, but is also critical of the pragmatic willingness to adopt whatever is assumed to achieve a given end. Several authors have advocated the idea of a potential union between ecological economics and neoclassical resource and environmental economics.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures and tables vi
- Preface vii
- I Radical foundations 1
- 1 Historical foundations and foundational conflicts 3
- 2 Addressing the environmental crisis 19
- II Philosophical foundations 57
- 3 Issues in history and philosophy of science with implications for economics 59
- 4 The philosophical basis for advancing knowledge in ecological economics 73
- 5 Revolutionary transformative science 99
- III Social ecological economic foundations 113
- 6 Reorienting to social ecological economics 115
- 7 Integration of social, ecological and economic knowledge 141
- 8 Clarifying division and seeking unity 164
- 9 An alternative economics for alternative economies 197
- References 220
- Index 251
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures and tables vi
- Preface vii
- I Radical foundations 1
- 1 Historical foundations and foundational conflicts 3
- 2 Addressing the environmental crisis 19
- II Philosophical foundations 57
- 3 Issues in history and philosophy of science with implications for economics 59
- 4 The philosophical basis for advancing knowledge in ecological economics 73
- 5 Revolutionary transformative science 99
- III Social ecological economic foundations 113
- 6 Reorienting to social ecological economics 115
- 7 Integration of social, ecological and economic knowledge 141
- 8 Clarifying division and seeking unity 164
- 9 An alternative economics for alternative economies 197
- References 220
- Index 251
