Dialectics and evolutionary materialism: Expanding methodological pluralism in ecological economics

IF 6.6 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-09 DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108487

Lisi Krall, John M. Gowdy

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Abstract

Ecological economics is concerned with understanding the relationship of humanity's household to earth's household. Its orientation has been to nurture methodological pluralism. This expansive project has yet to include in its toolbox what we label–dialectics and evolutionary materialism. This approach and methodology for understanding complex economic systems (the foundation of humanity's household); their emergence, structure, dynamic, and the complex relationship they establish between humans and earth can expand the breadth of methodological pluralism. Ecological economics has embraced a more limited ontological and epistemological approach stressing obvious material connections and the centrality of human agency. A more expansive view of social metabolism in relation to earth and the processes of change have been thwarted by the theoretical choice to avoid confronting determinism and to elevate the role of human agency in altering the massive economic system.

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生态经济学关注的是理解人类家庭与地球家庭之间的关系。其方向是培养方法论多元化。这一广阔的项目尚未将我们所称的辩证法和进化唯物主义纳入其工具箱。这种理解复杂经济系统（人类家园的基础）的方式和方法；它们的出现、结构、动态以及它们在人类与地球之间建立的复杂关系，可以拓展方法论多元化的广度。生态经济学在本体论和认识论上采用了一种较为有限的方法，强调明显的物质联系和人类能动性的中心地位。由于在理论上选择了避免面对决定论和提升人类机构在改变大规模经济体系中的作用，因此无法更广泛地看待社会新陈代谢与地球的关系以及变化过程。

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来源期刊

Ecological Economics 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

12.00

自引率

5.70%

发文量

313

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Ecological Economics is concerned with extending and integrating the understanding of the interfaces and interplay between "nature''s household" (ecosystems) and "humanity''s household" (the economy). Ecological economics is an interdisciplinary field defined by a set of concrete problems or challenges related to governing economic activity in a way that promotes human well-being, sustainability, and justice. The journal thus emphasizes critical work that draws on and integrates elements of ecological science, economics, and the analysis of values, behaviors, cultural practices, institutional structures, and societal dynamics. The journal is transdisciplinary in spirit and methodologically open, drawing on the insights offered by a variety of intellectual traditions, and appealing to a diverse readership. Specific research areas covered include: valuation of natural resources, sustainable agriculture and development, ecologically integrated technology, integrated ecologic-economic modelling at scales from local to regional to global, implications of thermodynamics for economics and ecology, renewable resource management and conservation, critical assessments of the basic assumptions underlying current economic and ecological paradigms and the implications of alternative assumptions, economic and ecological consequences of genetically engineered organisms, and gene pool inventory and management, alternative principles for valuing natural wealth, integrating natural resources and environmental services into national income and wealth accounts, methods of implementing efficient environmental policies, case studies of economic-ecologic conflict or harmony, etc. New issues in this area are rapidly emerging and will find a ready forum in Ecological Economics.