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| Author: | Hukkinen, J. |
| Title: | From groundless universalism to grounded generalism: improving ecological economic indicators of human- environmental interaction |
| Journal: | Ecological Economics
2003 : FEB, VOL. 44:1, p. 11-28 |
| Index terms: | INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT ECOLOGY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Ecological economics occasionally makes universal claims about how to understand and measure change in systems of human-environmental interaction. In terms of environmental policy, one of the most influential universal concepts that has come out of the ecological economics literature recently is ecological efficiency (or eco-efficiency). This article uses eco-efficiency as a vehicle to illustrate that universal indicators of human- environmental interaction are theoretically unfounded and practically problematic. Population ecology and neo- classical economics are identified as two theoretical approaches that have contributed to the emergence of universal concepts such as eco-efficiency. |
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