Disputes Over the Concept of Ecological Economics and Environmental Economics in the Light of the Works of Professor Tomasz Żylicz
| 20. Aug. 2021
Online veröffentlicht: 20. Aug. 2021
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ceej-2021-0014
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Transdisciplinary sources of ecological economics
| Social sciences and humanities |
historical, ethical, sociological and psychological foundations and dependencies of environmental protection; elements of environmental education and ecological ethics; |
| Political science |
study of interest groups and their importance in the protection of the natural environment and the creation of environmental law; principles governing the protection of the natural environment in societies and communities; development (evolution) of the goals and strategies of balanced and sustainable development; |
| Law and legal sciences |
codification of instruments and standards of environmental protection in the national and international dimension; creation of new solutions in the field of the law of protection and use of the natural environment; |
| Environmental sciences |
recognition of the impact of individual interactions (processes, substances) on the natural environment; study of the consequences of negative and positive impacts on the natural environment and the methods of their formation; analysis of the state of the natural environment and individual ecosystems on micro to global scale; |
| Technical sciences |
development of techniques (technologies, devices, and methods) for the protection of the natural environment; developing low-centric methods of influencing the elements and components of the natural environment; rationalization of the use of resources, values and services of the natural environment; developing technical progress in accordance with the BAT philosophy; |
| Economics |
the use of optimization algorithms in the use and impact on the natural environment; creation of appropriate methods of valorisation of elements and components of the natural environment; development and implementation of a new paradigm of modern economics. |
Research areas of ecological economics, according to R. Constanzy, H. Daly’ego and J. Bartholomew
| Economic sectors | Orthodox trends in economics, traditional models of economic growth | Economics of the environment and natural resources, an ecologically-economically sustainable growth model |
| Ecological sectors | Economics of natural resources, durable growth model | Ecology, zero growth model |
| Ecological economy, the concept of sustainable development | ||
Ecological and environmental economics paths in identifying and solving problems of the natural environment
| The paradigm of greening the economy | The paradigm of economising the natural environment |
| Creating ways of understanding the relationship between the natural environment - man - economy based on ecology, ethics and philosophy | Using the achievements of modern economics and economic thinking |
| Building a proper ecological awareness and life (consumption) attitudes | Launching effective market mechanisms to solve ecological problems |
| Practical use of resources, values and services of the natural environment, taking into account the criteria of intra- and intergenerational justice | Practical use of resources, values and services of the natural environment with the use of static and dynamic optimisation methods |
| Economics of sustainable development |
Comparison of conventional and ecological economics in terms of R. Constanza, H. Daly and J. Bartholomew
| General view of the world | Mechanistic, static, atomistic, individual preferences are recognized as basic data and dominant forces to be considered in the analysis, natural resources unlimited thanks to technologies and substitution | A dynamic systemic, evolutionary; preferences, technologies and organisms co-evolve to reflect a wide spectrum of ecological opportunities and constraints, people are responsible for their role in social and natural systems and their sustainability |
| Timeframe | Short: 50 years, usually 1–4 | Multiscale: days to centuries multiscalar synthesis |
| Spatial framework | Local – International: Basic Analysis Units Companies and Countries | Local-global: scale hierarchy |
| Genre framework | Only people | Entire ecosystems, including man: recognizes the relationship between nature and man |
| Primary macro target | Growth of the national economy | Sustainability of the ecological and economic system |
| The primary target of micro | Maximize profit (company) or utility (person): this drive leads to the macro goal, external costs and benefits ignored | Must be aligned with the macro goal: social organization and cultural institutions at a higher level of the temporal and spatial hierarchy resolve conflicts arising from short-sighted lower-level micro-goals |
| Assumption of technological progress | Very optimistic | Cautious sceptical |
| Scientific character | Monodisciplinary | Transdisciplinary |