How to be an ecological economist

Faber, Malte

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.01.017

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“…Facilitating more socially equitable and just conservation processes and outcomes (instrumental value: to social outcomes) cal economics places distributive justice (defined as a socially just distribution of goods, including ecosystem services) as a fundamental normative principle not reducible to the sum of individual utilities. Finally, ecological economics highlights limits to the substitutability between human-made and natural capital by defining the concept of "critical natural capital" as an irreversible threshold below which an ecosystem ceases to function (Faber, 2008). Ecological valuations can fill strategic gaps in conventional economic analyses by highlighting non-monetary dimensions of value (Klain and Chan, 2012).…”

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Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

Bennett¹,

Roth²,

Klain³

et al. 2018

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It has long been claimed that a better understanding of human or social dimensions of environmental issues will improve conservation. The social sciences are one important means through which researchers and practitioners can attain that better understanding. Yet, a lack of awareness of the scope and uncertainty about the purpose of the conservation social sciences impedes the conservation community's effective engagement with the human dimensions. This paper examines the scope and purpose of eighteen subfields of classic, interdisciplinary and applied conservation social sciences and articulates ten distinct contributions that the social sciences can make to understanding and improving conservation. In brief, the conservation social sciences can be valuable to conservation for descriptive, diagnostic, disruptive, reflexive, generative, innovative, or instrumental reasons. This review and supporting materials provides a succinct yet comprehensive reference for conservation scientists and practitioners. We contend that the social sciences can help facilitate conservation policies, actions and outcomes that are more legitimate, salient, robust and effective.

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Section: Boxmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

Bennett¹,

Roth²,

Klain³

et al. 2018

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141

215

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“…Ecological economics are distinguished from the environmental economy, the latter being the conventional economic analysis of the environment, since the former treat economy as a subsystem of the ecosystem, emphasizing on maintaining natural capital (Bergh, 2001). The guide to ecological economic analysis and assessment is the issues of intergenerational justice, the irreversibility of environmental change, the uncertainty of the long-term effects of human intervention in nature and the sustainable development (Malte, 2008).…”

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Towards Sustainable Development and Green Economy in European Union

Papakitsos

Karakiozis

Mavrakis

2018

JEMS

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Sustainable development is suggested by environmentalists as the solution for confronting the intense environmental, social and economic problems that emerge globally in the last decades. This study presents the recent features and trends of the associated concepts, like the green economy, green entrepreneurship, green professions and labour-market, with a particular reference to European Union countries. In the course of transforming the current economic model towards a green direction, vocational education appears as a fundamental prerequisite that will prepare the future workforce of green economy. In this respect, a small-scale research is also presented, recording the relevant opinions of senior high-school students in Western Attica (Greece), being an area of acute environmental, social and economic problems.

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“…Ecological economics, which is defined by its focus on nature, justice, and time, has the same goal of conserving energy. Issues related to intergenerational equity, irreversibility of environmental changes, uncertainty of long-term outcomes and sustainable development guide both ecological and economic analysis and valuation [16].…”

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Analysis of Applications to Improve the Energy Savings in Residential Buildings Based on Systemic Quality Model

Casas

Garcia

2016

Sustainability

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Abstract:Creating a definition of the features and the architecture of a new Energy Management Software (EMS) is complex because different professionals will be involved in creating that definition and in using the tool. To simplify this definition and aid in the eventual selection of an existing EMS to fit a specific need, a set of metrics that considers the primary issues and drawbacks of the EMS is decisive. This study proposes a set of metrics to evaluate and compare EMS applications. Using these metrics will allow professionals to highlight the tendencies and detect the drawbacks of current EMS applications and to eventually develop new EMS applications based on the results of the analysis. This study presents a list of the applications to be examined and describes the primary issues to be considered in the development of a new application. This study follows the Systemic Quality Model (SQMO), which has been used as a starting point to develop new EMS, but can also be used to select an existing EMS that fits the goals of a company. Using this type of analysis, we were able to detect the primary features desired in an EMS software. These features are numerically scaled, allowing professionals to select the most appropriate EMS that fits for their purposes. This allows the development of EMS utilizing an iterative and user-centric approach. We can apply this methodology to guide the development of future EMS and to define the priorities that are desired in this type of software.

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How to be an ecological economist

Cited by 92 publications

References 8 publications

Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

Towards Sustainable Development and Green Economy in European Union

Analysis of Applications to Improve the Energy Savings in Residential Buildings Based on Systemic Quality Model

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