Ecological Economics
The field of Ecological Economics was established to fill the growing need to integrate the study and management of “nature’s household” (ecology) and “humankind’s household” (economics). Ecological Economics is the name given to the effort to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries in order to address the interrelationships between ecological and economic systems in a broad and comprehensive way. Ecological economics is not intended to replace either ecology or economics, but to draw on the best of both disciplines without being bound by them in order to create an effective essential synthesis.
Ecological economics is a new transdisciplinary field of study that addresses the relationships between ecological systems and economic systems in the broadest sense. These relationships are central to most current environmetnal problems at local, state, regional, and global scales, and to building a sustainable future, but are not well covered by any existing discipline. Real advances in sciences are not made by those who uncritically accept what they learn. but rather from those who can see “outside the box.”
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