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| Author: | Borgström Hansson, C. Wackernagel, M. |
| Title: | Rediscovering place and accounting space: how to re-embed the human economy |
| Journal: | Ecological Economics
1999 : MAY, VOL. 29:2, p. 203-213 |
| Index terms: | Ecology Service Society |
| Freeterms: | Bioregionalism |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | It is proposed in the article to get moved beyond monetary assessments of ecosystem services to counteract an important mechanism behind their current undervaluation: the process of disembedding. Disembedding describes the influence of modernity on social relationships. It also clarifies how Human-Nature relationships have been affected. Modern societies have become disembedded from the context of local ecosystems, resulting in diminishing knowledge of, and attention to, ecosystem services. It is argued in this paper that, to re-embed societies instead of pursuing current trends, the limits to human expansion in the biosphere have to be made visible. Therefore, a strategy of re-embedding the human economy into the life-support context is put forward. In contrast to monetary assessments of ecosystem services, the ecological footprint assessment presents the limits of the services' availability. |
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